The Detroit times., 1913-01-16
DETROIT LEADS
IN MANY LINES
OF COMMERCE
Statistics Show Tremendous Elk.
pansion Of City's Manufac-
turing Industries
POPULATION AND BANK
CLEARINGS GAIN HEAVILY
Two Motor Cars a Minute, for
Working Hours of Day Is
Average Output Here

The Detroiter, the official organ OF
the Detroit Board OF Commerce. is
sued Thursday. gives statistical re.
lection OF the progress Detroit has
made In many directions during the
past year and comparisons with for
mer years.
II presents an excellent brief for
Detroit and fires the first shot on the
cover, which reads as follows: r
Detroit In 1919 is seventh In popu-
lation; sixth In manufacturers NTH IN
building construction; fourth In CEN
trail west bank clearings; first In
motor car manufacture; first In pro,
duction OF stoves; first In output OF
aluminium castings; first IN pharma-
ceutical manufactures; first In over
all production: first in automobile ac-
cessories; first. In shipbuilding on
great lakes; first in soda and salt pro-
ducts: first In varnish manufacture;
first In output OF adding machines
The leading article Is entitled:
Detroit continues its onward sweep:
This Is a resume OF the years in
oreases, and shows the steady pro
gress OF the city Some OF the in.
creases given are as follows:
Number OF families, IL per cent;
population, 10 per cent; assessed val
uation, 1872 per cent: banklng-Capi-
tai and surplus, A. per cent, savings
deposits, 11,S per cent, total deposits.
so per cent, total resources 80 per
cent bank clearings, AL per cent;
increased capital Of manufacturing
companies, 1913 per cent; estimated
factory output, 100 per cent; num-
Der of building permits. 200 per cent;
estimated cost of new buildings, $40
per cent: -four receipts, 81 per cent;
grain shipments. 7.9 per cent; exports,
1873 per cent; imports, IL per cent;
postcffice receipts, ITO per cent; In
ternal revenue receipts. IA per cent.
The increase In population means
that every hour OF the "a. each day in
the week. and each week in the year
1912, q fraction over four new resi-
dents were added to the city's roster
In spite OF the fact that fewer COM
panies were Incorporated, the esti-
mated output increased s35.0O0,000.
In building circles Detroit show
cd up unusually we'll, taking fifth
rlace in comparison with so OF the
leading cities of the country AID
ohOWiub au ihCtCa VI CIV pNi NShN
for the year.
Bank clearings passed the billion
mari. easily, giving total OF $l,12T.-.
975,16S, being ar Increase OF l4.1 per
cent. giving to Detroit fourth place in
central west clearings.
The motor car output will average
two cars minute for each minute OF
an eighthour day six days In the week
during 1918, according TO the predic-
tons of the Detroit factories.
Graphic tables are shown giving the
increases In the various lines, heavy
rules giving at glance the progress
made during the past IL years.
That Detroit Is city OF home
owners Is indicated by the fact that
In this city the percentage of home
owners Is 3s1, based on the 1910
census, and leading such other cities
as Cleveland, Milwaukee. Indianapolis,
Buffalo, st. Paul, Minneapolis, Lous-
Vile, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cincinnati.
Boston and New York by good mar
gins.
The division OF employees In some
OF the principal industries during 1911
we're as follows:
Automobiles and auto parts, 1855;
clothing, boots and shoes, ETC., SOLO;
car building and repairing. 7,47s;
cigars and tobacco, 4,5S2; food pro-
ducts, 4,24S; stoves and other heating
apparatus, ACES; soda ash and other
alkaline products, 1914; pharmaceutF
cal products, 3,44S; printing and pub
fishing, $3.50; furniture, 2,015.
The net registered tonnage which
passed through Detroit river in 1910
was 5S,S2l, 2S2 tons, compared TO So
736, S07 for the Sault canal In 1912,
and 49,S56,123 for the same canal In
1910. The rSuez canal showed a ton
mage OF 16,5S1,5ss in 1910 and the
Panama canal, estimated nrst year,
100000 tons. The actual freight ton
mage which passed Detroit river In
1910 was 1885,, 602 tons compared to
72,472,676 for the Sault canal in 1912.
and $685. 21S IN 1910.
In regard to the motor car indus
try, great progress Is shown. The
number of cars built here In 1909. &C.
cording to a canvas made at that time
by the Board OF Commerce, was 49,
500. In 1910 II was $4,000, with
value of ;130,0O0,0OO, and in 1911
about 10000 cars with value OF
about S145,OO0,000 While the figures
for 1912 are not available, the volume
OF business was considerably in eX-
cess of the previous yeais.