The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-07
REPORTS FACTORY
CONDITION IN CAPE
q. s. Census Officer IsoIates
Facts And Figures On
Industries Here.

suits of the census of manufactures
for the city of Cape Girardeau, Mo-,
has been issued by Director Sam L.
Rogers, of the Bureau of the Census,
Department of Commerce. 1t was
prepared under the direction of Mr..
William NJ. Steuart, chief statistician
| for manufactures.
! The figures are preliminary and
subject to such change and correction
as may be found necessary from a
further examination of the original
reports.
/ The census, with reference to manu-
( features, excluded the hand trades,
/ the building trades, and the neighbor-
hood industries, and took account only
of establishments conducted under
the factory system. In the last CEN
sus, also, as in that for 1909, statistics
We're not collected for establishments
having products for the census year
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 opera
tor, 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 calen-
| dar year a report was obtained for the
operations Of that establishment for
its fiscal year falling most largely
within the calendar year 1914
Summary of the Statistics.
1t is estimated that the population
of Cape Girardeau on July !, 1914,
was 1O,033.
There were az establishments re-
ported as located within the corporate
limits Of the city during 1914.
The capital 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 rented prop
erty, plant, or equipment which was
employed in the conduct of manufac-
turing enterprises. The capital in
vested amounted to $3,074 900.
The cost Of materials used, in adj
dition to the component materials
which enter into the products of the
establishment for the census year, in
cludes the cost of fuel, mill supplies
and rent of power and heat. The
cost of materials, however, does not
include unused materials and supplies
bought either for speculatica or for
use during subsequent period. The
total cost of materials used during the
yea ramounted to $2,35G,OO0
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 allow
ance for depreciation.
The value Of products, which
amounted to S3,SS8,OOO, 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 relation
to the amount of sales for that year.
The values under this head also in
clude amounts received for work done
on materials furnished by others.
Summary for the City.