El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-30

, require four hours. Formerly it took
! s hours 10 make a set of buggy har-
ness; today the time occupied is only
20 hours
Sixty years ago one man could man
Ufacture So pounds of laundry soap in
an hour. With the help of machinery,
he can now make 1900 pounds in that
time. Or, II skilled IN such work, he
can put up a dozen cans of tomatoes in
two and half minutes-a task which
would have occupied three-quarters of
an hour in 1865. when the vegetable
canning industry was in its infancy.
In 1850 it took half an hour to make
one sewing machine needle; today it
takes three-Quarters of minute A
skilled hand can now turn out 1000 Gig
aret in an hour, by machinery; IN
1880. by hand labor, 100 an hour rep
resented pretty pearly the maximum
rate OF production.
Reduction in Bread Expense.
Today one man can make 1000
IoaveS of bread in nine hours, at a
cost of $165 for labor. Half a cen
fury ago the same task occupied IS
hours. at an expense for labor Of $500
The average worker in this occupation
total number Of lOaveS of bread re-
quired to feed the people of the United
States for u month being $1,000
100000. And to furnish material for
this bread each mill employe is
obliged to turn out about 10000 bush
els of flour per annum.
me people me OnlLeQ states wear
100000 dozen pairs Of stockings in
a year-Of which number IS. coo. 600
dozen pairs are socks, and 440. 200 dOZ-
en- pairs are silk hose. affected by low
, ers of luxury. This industry occupies
! the time of 10000 wage earners, so
! that the average output per worker is
572 dozen pairs per annum-
The average person engaged in such
I employment makes in a year 1920 felt
| hats, Of which no fewer than 43. 0OO. 600
are purchased and worn annually in
/ the United States. It is machinery. of
| course, that renders so great an out
! put possible, and the same is true of
( carpets and rugs. of which our manu-
| facturers produce $4,000 coo square
yards in a II month. This means that
| each worker in the trade Weaves in
I that length Of time 2412 square yards
/ enough, that is to say, to cover a
! square aera Of nearly $50 feet on a
1 side.
OF kid and other leather gloves alone
1 the people of this country wear 3,4O0 =
( 600 dozen pairs in a year, of domestic
/ manufacture-the output of each wage
l Garner IN this trade being nearly 300
I dozen pairs annually But the same
! manifested in all of our modern in
/ dustries, so that it is hardly worth
| while TO go much further into this
| branch of the discussion.
Machinery Increases Output.
! In the steel making business. even
/ within very recent years. there has
| been a surprising augmentation of out
] put per worker Whereas. in 1889 it
1 was 81 tons. it is today III tons for
| each wage Garner. and during the same
/ period the average yearly production
( of pig iron has risen from 265 tons to
! sos lonesome plants with large furn-
aces running up as high as 1900 tons
/ per man
! In 1850. to produce one busheI of
/ corn required one mans labor for four
! and half hours. Today the time CON
| sumed is only Al minutes. Incidental
! ", the cost of human labor for the pro-
| ductiOn of that bushel of corn has been
J reduced from 36 cents to 10 II cents,
| For this the farmers have to thank
/ the inventors, who have given them
! the gang pillow. the horse drawn corn
i planter. the husl5ing machine, and the