The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-02
INDUSTRIES GROW
IN WEST VIRGINIA

ue Of products s2,s5e.e0o.
Malt liquor. thirteen Establish
meuts; AS wage earners; value OF
products SO, 271,0OO.
Copper, tin and sheet iron prod
.ucts, nineteen establishments; 916
wage earners; value OF products So.
/ 151 600.
The value Of the products of the
: other lines OF manufacture did not
reach $1,000, 0OOsin 1903.
OF the leading industries lumber
and timber showed a n increase in
the value OF produts OF more than
loo, per cent in ten years; iron and
steel increased ST. per cent, leather
goods about is per cent, glass more
than 400 per cent, -four mill prod
ucts more than 100 per cent, coke.
mor than 100 per cent, while the
value OF all products in ten years al
most trebled.
Manufacturing in West Virginia is.
conducted more largely outside OF.
the cities than in other states, while
the proportion of manufacturing
outside Of cities is increasing in
West Virginia. In 1899, the percent
of manufactured products made in.
cities Of 10000 or more; IN west
Virginia, was 34.4, while in 1908
this percentage was only 2S.6. This
increase is the result in part of the
increased activity in the lumber and
coke Industries. The fact that sta
tistics for Blueield and Martinsburg
were included in those for outside
territory in 1899 and those for the
cities in 1909 makes the gain even
more conspicuous.
The tendency in West Virginia
seems to be toward moderate sized
establishments. OF the, 1856 estab-
lishments in 1909 only 3S, or 1.3
per cent had a value of products 'ex-
ceediug a million dollars.
Establishments having a value OF
products less than $1,000 consti-
tuted $41.S per cent of the total. but
their products amounted to only 1.6
per cent of the total. The great bulk
Iof the manufacturing was reported
by establishments having a product
valued at not less than S100, 600.
The statistics show the lumber
product of West Virginia for 1903.
Ito have been Lac, s42 thousand.
feet of of rough lumber compared
with 77s,O51 in 1899; 150,S2O
thousand lath in 1909 compared
with 5SJ44O in 1899; and ,6,829
shingles compared with 1880 in.
1899.
OF the iron and steel products,
skelp was the most important both
in tonnage and value.
or the glass products, pressed and
blown glass showed the largest pro-
duction, although the building glass
showed the largest increase, the
vadue of its products having IN
creased from $dOt,242. in 1899 to
SO. 751.13S in 1909.
The figures on min products show
increases in all classes of products
except corn meal and corn -four,
hominy and grits. Weat flour CON
trlbuted AZ per cent of the total
value of all mill products, but
showed very little increase over
1899 and a slight decrease in value
lover 1904. The largest increase in
quantity from 1904 to 1909 is shown
for buckwheat flour, the production
of which Increased 1891 per cent.
West Virginia is among the leading
states in the manufacture of this
product.
The, relative rank of the cities in
West Virginia having more than TO-
900 population, as shown by the
value OF their manufacturing prod
ucts, is as follows:
wheeling, manufactured prouucts'
$27,O77,d.51; number Of wage
tearners, 1900.
Huntington, value of products,
$6,5n1.276; number of wage earn
ers 1856.
Parkersburg, value of products,
$5,49S, 452; number. of wage
earners, 1895.
Charleston, value of products, So
2S5S6s; number of wage earners,
991.
Martinsburg, value of products,
SIS, 515, 46S; number of wage
learners, 1920.
rBluefeld, value of products, ST.
465,O39; number of wage. earners,
1-ton-