The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-01-20
COMMANDING PLACE IN STATE
Bureau Makes Careful Study of City
Industrial Problem and Makes Report
Which Will Be Decidedly Interest
ing to People Of This City.

a preliminary statement ofAthe gen.
eral results of the census Of manufac-
turers for Kenosha, has been issued by
Director Sam. l.. Rogers, of the Bureau
Of the Census, Department of Commerce.
1t consists of summary comparing
the figures for 1909 and 1914, by totals,
prepared under the direction of Mr..
William M. Steuart, chief statistician
for manufactures
The figures are preliminary and SUBJ
Ject to such change and correction as
may be found necessary from further
examination of the original reports.
The census of 1914, like that of 1909,
with reference to manufactures, ex-
cluded the hand trades, the building
trades, and the neighborhood industries
and took account only of establish
ments conducted under the factory sys-
tenn. In the last census, also, as in that
for 1909, statistics were not collected
for establishments having products for
the census year valued at less than
5000, except that reports were taken
for establishments idle during por-
ton of the census year, or which be-
gan 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, cor
poration, or other owner or operator,
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 report was obtained for the
operations Of that establishment for it's
fiscal year falling most largely within
the calendar year 1914.
Percentages of Increase.
The population of Kenosha at the
Census of 1910 was 21,371, and it is
estimated that it was $4,000 on July l,
1914.
The statistics represent establish
ments located within the corporate linn
its Of the city.
The summary shows considerable
increase at the census of 1914, as COM
pared with that for 1909. In the or
der of their Importance, from per-
centage standpoint, the increases for
the several items rank as follows: Sal
aried employees, SIS per cent; salaries,
52.S per cent; primary horsepower,
43.2 per cent; materials, 30.4 per cent;
value of products, 1928 per cent; wages,
21.2 per cent; capital, 14.9 per cent;
and wage earners, 100 per cent.
Capital Invested.
The capital invested, as reported in
t9l4, was $26,53O,OOO, gain of $3,431,-
600, or 14.9 per cent, over $23, 099,O 900
in 1909. In this 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 rented prop
erty, plant, or equipment which was
employed in the conduct of manufac-
turing enterprises. In the final bulle-
tins and reports the rental paid for
such property will be shown separately.
Cost of Materials.
The cost of materials used was
$19,267, 900 in 1914, as against $14,773,-
900 in 1909, an increase of $4,494.OOO.
or 30.4 per cent. In addition to the
component materials which enter into
the products of the establishment for
the census year there are included the
cost of fuel, mill supplies, and rent of
power and heat. The cost of materials.
however, does not include unused ma
terials and supplies bought either for
speculation or for use during a subse-
quent period.
The census inquiry does not include
amounts paid for miscellaneous ex-
penses, such as rent of offices, royal
ties, insurance, ordinary repairs, adver-
Using, traVehng expenses, or allowance
for depreciation.
Value of Products.
The value of products was $2S,341, 900
in 1914, and $4,000 in 1909, the
increase being $5,159,OO0, or 22.3 per
cent.
The value of products represents
their selling value or price at the plants
as actually turned out by the factories
during the census wear and does not