The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-14
IOWA FACTORIES
| SHOW INCREASE
Manufacturers Show Gain over Cen.
sus for Five Years Previous to
This Enumera-
ton.
SALARIES TAKE JUMP
Big Increase Is Shown In the Cost of
Materials Which Were
Used for the
Products.
SALARIES TAKE JUMP

SSSo WI SiS
Products.
WASHINGTON, July IA pre-
liminary statement Of the general re-
suits of the census of manufactures
for Iowa has been issued by Director
Sam L. Rogers of the bureau of the
census. department OF commerce. It
consists of a summary comparing the
figures for 1909 and 1914, by totals,
prepared under the direction of Mr..
William M. Steuart, chief statistic
ian for manufactures.
The figures are preliminary and
subject to such change and coFrec-
ton as may be found necessary from
a further examination OF the original
reports.
The census OF 1914, like that of
1909, with reference to manufactures,
excluded the hand trades, the build
ing trades, and the negihborhood in
dustries, and took account only of
establishments conducted under the
factory system. In the last census,
also, as in that for 1909, statistics
were not collected for establishments
having pIOuuCLS LIE CELSIUS y6etl
valued at less than $500, except that
reports were taken for establishments
idle during a 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 single individual, partnership,
corporation, or other owner or oper-
ator, and are located in the same town
or city.
The reports were taken from the
calendar year ending December 81,
1914, wherever the system of book
keeping permitted figures for that
period to be secured, but when the
fiscal year of an establishment diff
fered from the calendar year a re-
port was obtained for the operations
Of that establishment for Its fiscal
year falling most largely within the
calendar year 1914.
Percentage Of Increase.
The summary shows a considerable
increase at the census Of 1914 as
Will tLltL lOT lSUS. Ill IA0
order of their Importance, from per-
centage standpoint, the increases for
the several items rank as follows:
Salaries, 49.1 per cent: proprietors
and firm members, AS per cent;
capital, 1868 per cent; salaried en-
ployes, 239 per cent; primary horse
power, % per cent; wages, 22.5 per
cent; materials. 204 per cent; value
of products, 1919 per cent; value add
ed by manufacture, 1911 per cent;
value added by manufacture. 1871 per
cent; wage earners average num-
ber), "a per cent; and number Of es-
Establishments, 1.6 per cent.
Capital Invested.
The capital invested as reported In
1914, was $233, 373, 900, a gain Of $685.
154 900 or 1868 per cent, over SILL
$4,000 in 1909. The average capital
per establishment was approximately
$4,000 in 1914 and $31 900 in 1909. In
this connection it should be stated
that the inquiry contained in the CEN
sus schedule calls for the total
amount Of capital, both owned and
borrowed, Invested In the business,
but excludes the value Of rented
property, plant or equipment which
was employed in the conduct of man
.ufacturing enterprises. In the final
bulletins and reports the rental paid
for such property will be shown
separately.
Cost Of Materials.
The cost Of materials used was
S205, 53S 900 in 1914, as against $780,
.7O7, 900 in 1909, an increase of 1884,
S31, 900, or 20.4 per cent. The average
cost Of materials per establishment
was approximately $37 1000 in 1914 and
$31, 900 in 1909. In addition to the
component materials which enter In
to the products Of the establishment
for the census year there are in
cluded the cost of fuel, mill supplies
and rent of power and heat. The cost
of materials, however, does not in
clude unused materials and supplies
bought either for speculation or for
use during a subsequent period.
The census inquiry does not include
amounts paid for miscellaneous ex-
penses, such as rent of Offices, royal
ties. insurance, ordinary repairs, adj
vertising, travelling expenses or al
lowances for depreciation.
Value Of Products.
The value Of vroducts was $780,
$4,000 in 1914 and $259, 23S 900 in
1909, the increase being $51 ,716, 900,
or 1919 per cent. The average per
establishment was approximately $751;
900 in 1914 and $47, 900 in 1909.
The value Of products represents
their selling value or price at the
plants as actually turned out by the
factories during the census year and
does not necessarily have any rela-
ton to the amount of sales for that
year. The values under this head
also include amounts received for
work done on materials furnished by
others.
Value Added by Manufacture.
The value added by manufacture
represents the difference between the