Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1912-04-26
MISSISSIPPI AS A
MANUFACTURED
STATISTICS ISSUED BY THIR-
TENTH ANNUAL CENSUS.
GREAT DIVERSITY is SHOWN
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 L. Dana Durand.
Though Mississippi is not pre-eminent-
ly q manufacturing state, its manufae-
lures have somewhat more than kept
pace with the growth of the population.
During 1S4s-5O an average of 1854 wage
earners, representing fve-tentrs of ! per
cent of the total population, was en-
ployed in manufactures, while in 1909
an average of 5O,3s4 wage %earners, or 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
S. to $45.
In 1909 Che state of Mississippi had
2,59s manufacturing establishments
which gave employment to an average
of 56,761 persons during the year and
paid out $780, . 900 in salaries and
wages. OF the persons employed, 50,3S4
were wage earners. These establishments
turned out products to the value OF
$S0,555,0 900 to products which materials
costing sac, 926,oOO were used. The
value added by manufacture was thus
S43, 629, 900, which figure best represents
the net wealth created by manufacturing
operations during the year.
The manufacturing industries OF Mis-
sissippi have developed rapidly during
the ten-year period 1s99-19O9, the figures
for 1909 for practically every item be-
ing considerably more than twice as
great as that for 1899.
There is considerable diversity in the
manufacturing activities of the state.
The most important industries, arranged
in the order of the value of products
are: Lumber and timber products. This
industry embraces establishments on
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-
ployment to s3,397 wage %earners, or e6.3
per cent Of the total average number OF
wage earners reported by the manufac-
turing industries Of the state, as against
22,431, or IS per cent, in 1904. The
extraordinary increase in the number OF
establishments reported, from 664 in
1904 to 1,e47 in 1909, is largely hue to
Q more complete enumeration oAs-tJ9
smaller rural mills in 1909. The value
of products, which was $40, 10000 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 statis-
tics presented include those for all es-
Establishments 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 SIS, 966 900, as
compared with $12, 5s7, 900 in 1904, and
6 1851, 900 in 1899.