Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-08-13
MANUFACTURES in
limited STATES
STEADILY GROW
Census Bureau Report
Shows Output in 1914
Worth 2414 Billions.
SALARIES, WAGES
ALSO INCREASING
Number Of Salaried Employees in 1914
Il as 964.217, While Wage Farmers
Numbered 7,036,337, Increase Of
992.9 and 6.4 Per Cent.

WdS1InSJ AuS.-A preliminary
statement of the general results OF
4 the census of manufactures for the
4 United States has been issued by
Director Sam l.. Rogers, of the bureau
Of the census, department of com.
merce. It consists of summary COM
pairing the figures for 1909 and 1914
by totals, prepared under the direc.
tor, of William M. Steuart, chief
statistician for manufactures.
The figures are preliminary anc
subject to such change and correction
as may be found necessary from q
further examination of the origina
reports.
The census of 1914, like that of 1905
with reference to manufactures, ex.
4 Guided the hand trades, the building
trades, and the neighborhood indus
tries, and took account only of estab-
lshments conducted under the factory
system. In the last census also, as ir
that for 1909, statistics were not col
lected for establishments having prod
ucts for the census year valued at less
than $500, except that reports were
taken for establishments idle during
portion of the census year, or which
began operation during that year, and
whose products for such reason were
valued at less than $500.
The word establishment" as used
in the census reports may mean more
than one mill or plant, provided they
are owned or controlled and operated
by a single individual, partnership
corporation, or other owner or operat-
CT, and are located in the same town
or city.
The reports were taken for the cal
endar year ending December 81, 1914
wherever the system of bookkeeping
permitted figures for that period to
be secured but when the fiscal year
of an establishment differed from the
calendar year report was obtained
for the operations Of that establish
ment for it's fiscal year falling most
largely within the calendar year 1914.
Percentages of Increase.
The population of the United States
at the census of 1910 was 91,972, 266,
and it is estimated that it was 98,-
7S1,0O0 on July I, 1914.
The summary shows Increases at
the census of 1914, as compared with
that for 1909, for all items except
proprietors and firm members, for
which slight decrease is shown.
In the order of their Importance,
from a percentage standpoint, the in
creases for the several items rank as
follows: Salaries, 37.2 per cent; capt.
tai, 23.7 per cent; salaried employees,
90 per cent; primary horsepower, 20.7
per cent; wages, 10 per cent; mate
rails, 1873 per cent; value of prod
ucts, 17.3 per cent; value added by
manufacture, 1873 per cent; wage
earners. ga per cent, and number of
establishments, 2.7 per cent.
Capital Invested.
The capital invested, as reported in
1914, was $22, 79O, 8SO,O0O, a gain of
1882, 100000, or 23.7 per cent, over
428,270,O0O in 1909 The average
capital per establishment was etproxi-
mately $4,000 in 1914 and $4,000 in
1909. In thiv connection it should be
stated that the inquiry contained in
the census schedule calls for the total
amount of capital, both owned and
borrowed, invested in the business, but
excludes the value of rer( ed property
plant, Sr equipment which was en-
ployed in the conduct of manufacture
ing enterprises. In me final bulletins
and reports the rental paid for such
property will be shown separately.
Cost of Materials.
The cost of materials used was $14,-
368,O89,O00 in 1914, as against $12,-
142, 791 900 in 1909, an increase of $2,-
225,298,0O0, or 1873 per cent. The
average cost of materials per estab-