Evening journal., 1913-01-15
726 Industries in STATE, a
Gain of 95 in the Last
Five Years; Give En-
pIoymenf to 1884
Persons.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.-
That Delaware is slowly but surely !
gaining as a manufacturing state
1will he shown in a supplementary !
report to the 1910 Census, now in !
course of preparation by w. NJ !
NSteuart, chief statistician for manu-
zfacturers, under the direction of e.
zDana Durand, director of the census.
1The supplementary report will prob
sably be published within the next two
& or three months but Director Durand
has given to THE EVENING JOUR-
SNAL correspondent sufficient data on
4 Ethe subject to show that the state has
&gained more than is per cent in five
tyears.
According to the last sensus Della
3 was has 726 manufacturing establish
tments a gain in FIVE years of 50 es-
Establishments or 15.1 per cent This
Egain. according to the size of Della
Iware, compares favorably with that
of every other state, and in the case
of many surpasses them in per cent
Mage. The manufacturing establish
\ Nments, according to Mr. Durand, give
2employment to 23,9S4 persons and pay
Nyearly S12,61S,000 in salaries and
wages. OF the persons employed,
X27 .23S are wage earners.
These establishments made pro-
8ducts to the value OF S52.S40,000. To
Hproduce these. materials to the cost
EOf S3093S. 900 were, consumed. The
<added value by manufacture was thus
ISL 100000, which figure represents
the net wealth created by manufac-
8turing operations during the year the
census was taken.
In addition to the per centage of
increase in the number of establish
&ments, the number of wage earners
8increased IS per cent, while the value
#of products increased 2S4 per cent.
land the value added by manufacture
MAG per cent It is a matter of in
fterest to note that the per cents of
Is Increase shown for wages, value of
%products and value added by manu-
s. facture are very much larger than
& for those for the number of estab-
& lishments and average number
'4of wage earners. This would seem
E to indicate that the factories are in
Icreasing their output
Measured by the value of products,
Nthe six most important industries in
the order of their Importance are:
Leather, tanned. curried and finish
ed. The statistics showing number
+ of wage earners. amount paid IN
e awages, and value of product all indi-
: cate a considerable growth of this
s Industry
Foundry and machine shop products
The number of establishments en-
gagged in the industry and the degrte
Fl Of their activity in any community are
usually a fair index of the extent and
X prosperity of its manufactures, the
report will say The industry is really
y of greater importance to the State
{. than is Indicated by the statistics, as
some machine shops manufacture a
81 distinctive product.
Cars, steam railroad. not including
Operations Of railroad companies anC
& cars, and general shop construction
and repairs by steam railroad com
& panies. These branches of industr.
Z. are closely allied. Combined the.
M give employment to 3,204 wage earn
ers on the average throughout tn,
# year and their products amount tI
about S6,S79.OO0 yearly
Paper and wood pulp. The estab
IA Hlishments which produce pulp as
| final product, as well as those which
k* manufacture paper or pulp and papel
Mare included under this classification
# Canning and preserving. This in
6|< dustry depends entirely upon th'
|S agricultural and fishery products fo
M its raw material II includes the can
n lining and preserving of fruits, vege
~ tables. fish and oysters. Since 1856
i when It was first known commercially
M 1t has steadily increased in import
"a ance Considering the short seasoi
which it is carried on, the value o
|# products compared with other indus
M tries is significant
Measured by value added by manu-
M facture. these six leading industrie
& hold generally the same relative ran
M as when measured by value of pre-
7t ducts, though shipbuilding become
q fifth in order instead of paper an
h wood pulp, which. in turn. become
sixth, while canning and preservin
Isl becomes ninth.
En- Flour mill and grist mill product
and lumber and timber products
# while not ranking among the ST
W most important industries, are bot
W represented by a relatively large nun
n Der of establishments. The mills ar