Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-02-28
VERMONT CENSUS FIGURES
Quarry Products Rank First. Cen.
tralization of Dairy Industry.

tralization OF Dairy Industry.
The bureau of the census has issued
an abstract of the data on manufac-
lures in Vermont for 1914 in which
the principal industries are analysed.
The report may be summed up in the
following:
The value of farm crops in 1909 was
$27 ,446,336, of which more than one
half $16,335 $50 represented hay
and forage.
At the United States census of
mines and quarries, in 1909, the total
mineral output of Vermont was val
ued at 1921 1928, the principal prod
ucts being marble, $3,277,651, and
granite, $2,829,522.
According to the annual report of
the United States Geological Survey,
the total value of all mineral pro-
duced in the state in 1914 was $685.
867, the leading items being marble,
$3,49O,971, and granite, $3,12O,452.
Vermont ranked first among the
states in that year in the production
of both these minerals, with 43 per
cent and 1916 per cent respectively of
the total values reported for the en-
tire United States.
Marble and stone work is the most
important industry in Vermont, not
only as to value of products, but also
in number of wage earners employed.
In this connection it should be under
stood that reports for quarries were
taken at the census of manufactures
only for such Of them as were en-
gagged in dressing the stone. At the
1914 census of manufactures the mar
BILE and stone work industry, which
includes not only the operations of
quarries where the stone is dressed,
but also the dressing of marble and
stone outside of quarries, reported
1914 per cent of the total value of
products for ali manufactures in the
state and 27.6 per cent of the average
number of wage earners. The value
of products reported for this industry
at the census Of 1914 was subdivided
as follows: Marble and stone work
of all kinds, chiefly granite and mar
bic, but exclusive of slate, $11, 066,-
400; roofing slate, $1,123,492 and all
uments and tombstones and stone for
building purposes were the chief
products in this industry. The value
of marble and stone work, exclusive
of slate, by all kinds Of stone, was re-
-,o~ta1 IS follows: GRANITE 81, 1872
u, marble, $G,47A,TzS: marble and
granite, not separable, $454, O93; and
soapstone, $15,327. During the five
year period 1909-1914 there was a
slight increase in the total value of
products from $12,395, 900 to $780,
900, or II per cent. The number of
establishments, however, decreased
from 342 to 276, or 1913 per cent; the
average number of wage earners from
10,411 to 9,018, or 1874 per cent; and
the value added by manufacture from
$9,878,000 to $8,922,000, or OF per
cent.
The lumber and timber products in
dustry, which embraces not only log
ging operation, saWmills and planning
mills, but also wooden box factories,
and the pulpwood industry, was sec
ond in Importance in 1914, although
tual falling off in all items except
wages and value Of products. AS the
forests are depleted in the older
states, decrease naturally follows,
and this is evident in the case Of Yer
mont, when the statistics for the ten
year period 1904-1914 are $9,477,000
and the average number Of wage
earners was 1914; but in 1914, not
withstanding the value of lumber, the
value of products was only SS,768, 900
and the number Of wage earners 4,108,
the percentage Of decrease for the
decade being rs and 26S per cent, re-
spectively.
Butter, cheese and condensed milk
is third in Importance in the state at
the last three censuses, this industry,
although showing a small actual de-
crease from 1909 to 1914 in number of
esta blishments and actual number of
wage earners, showed increases in
amount paid in wages, cost of materi-
ais, and the value of products. The
decrease in number of establishments
has been noticeable since 1904, when
22O establishments were reported, and
is probably due to greater centrali-
cation Of the industry, causing the
abandonment of many small local
creameries. For the fve-year period
19O9-1914 the average number of
wage earners decreased 48 or 92 per
cent, while the value of products in
creased $584,00O, or 7.2 per cent.
The paper and wood pulp industry
ranks fourth and the textile industries
and flour and grist mill products are
among the important classifcations.
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