Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-04-26
MISSISSIPPI MANUFACTURING
STATISTICS ISSUED BY THIR.
TENTH ANNUAL CENSUS.
Growth in Manufacturing Has More
Than Kept Pace With Growth of
Population-Cotton Factories
Are Increasing.

| Washington.-An advance bulletin
giving thirteenth census statistics of the
leading manufacturing industries OF the
state of Mississippi has been issued by
Director h. Dana Durand
Though Mississippi is not pre-eminent-
ly manufacturing state, its manufac-
lures have somewhat more than kept
pace with the growth OF the population.
During 1S49-J0 an average of 1854 wage
earners, representing five-tentrs OF ! per
cent of the total population, was en-
ployed in manufactures, while in 1909
an average of 50,3S4 wage earners, OF 2.S
per cent of the total population, were so
engaged. During this period the gross
value OF products per capita OF the total
population of the state increased from
IS to $45.
In 1909 Che state of Mississippi had
1858 manufacturing establishments
which gave employment to an average
of 56,761 persons during the year and
paid out $22, 422, 900 in salaries and
wages. OF the persons employed, 50,3S4
were wage earners. These establishments
turned out products to the value of
$50, 555, 900 to products which materials
costing $50, $4,000 were used The
value added by manufacture was thus
$43, 1923, 900, which figure best represents
the net wealth created by manufacturing
operations during the year.
There is considerable diversity In the
manufacturing activities of the state.
l., -. cd
in the order of the value of products
are: Lumber and timber products. This
industry embraces establishments en-
gagged in logging operations and also
sawmills, planning mills and establish
ments manufacturing wooden packing
boxes 1t is one of the Oldest indus
tries in the state and by far the most
important, and shows a decided growth
from 1899 to 1909. In 1909 it gave en-
oployment to 33,397 wage earners, or 66.3
per cent of the total average number OF
wage earners reported by the manufac-
turing industries of the state, as against
%, All, or So per cent, in 1904. The
extraordinary increase in the number of
establishments reported, from 664 in
19U4 10 1,O4f IN 1SU9, IS largely uuc "
a more complete enumeration OF the
smaller rural mills in 1909. The value
of products, which was $42, 793, 900 in
1909, represented 53.1 per cent of the
total value of products of all manufac-
turing industries in the state.
Oil, cottonseed and cake. The Stats
tics presented include those for all es-
adjustments engaged primarily in ex-
tracing oil from cotton seed or in re-
fning the oil. Measured either by value
of products or by value added by manu-
facture, this industry is the second in
Importance in the state. The state ranged
third among the states in this industry
in value of products in 1909 and fourth
in 1904. Prior to 1890 the industry was
of little Importance in the state, and its
growth is of particular interest, because
it is so largely based on the profitable
utilization of what was at one time
practically a waste product. The value
of products in 1909 was 15,966,000, as
compared with ST., 5S7, 900 in 1904, and
$6,6S1 900 in 1899.