The Robesonian., 1917-03-15
NORTH CAROLINA PRODUCTS

NoSeu over 50 FER Cent In
. y., ,1ears-Population 2,339,OOO and
tcciue OF Products of Her Indus
tfles @2s9,4l1 1887 According to
Census Taken in 1914
Washington Dispatch.
North Carolina's population was
Z,o39,OOO and the value of products
OF her industries, S289,411,997 in
1914, according to the census of
m1anq1acturers made in that wear by
the United States Bureau of Census
ana just made public here in pamph- |
!et form; The value of her products
increased 1876 per cent in the five
year period. Persons engaged in in
ousstry IN the State numbered 151.-
ooo' an increase Of 1874 per cent and
wages and salaries amounted to
pot, o,2o2,679, an increase of 1874 per
cent; Capital invested was $685.
o4l ,oOo IN 5,5O7 establishments of all
xmas. Capital increased 16.9 per
cent,and the number Of establishments
i1.|percent. Materials used in manufac
lures amounted to $169,941,971, ami
increase of 1915 per cent, and value
added by manufacture was S119,47O.-
1909. p ' 0'ei
The Ten Leading Cities
Ihere were ten cities each having
a population in 1914 of more than 1O,-
OOO inhabitants. They were Ashe-
VILE, Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro, ),
high Point, New Bern, Raleigh,
Rocky Mount, Wilmington and Win
ston-Salem. Those cities, whose ag-
grregate population in that year form
ed 8.9 per cent of the estimated to-
tai population of North Carolina, re-
/ ported 34.9 per cent of the States
manufactured products.
"ln total population" says the re-
port, North Carolina ranked six
teenth among the States in 1910; and
IN density of population it ranked
twentieth with 45.3 inhabitants per
square mile, the corresponding fig
ure for 1900 being 38.9.
Railway Mileage
"The steam-railway mileage in
1914 was 5,419 and the electric-rail-
e way mileage in 1912 was I'll. In
addition, the transportation facili-
ties provided by the harbors and nav
: igable rivers of the State are impor-
!. tant factors in the furtherance Of its
manufacturing and commercial in
:, terests.
= "The natural resources of North
- Carolina, which are of great i'm
: portance have a marked influence il
,, the establishment and growth o.
many industries. Some of the mate
: rials used in manufacturing, such a.
i cotton, cereals, tobacco, timber, uhos
J phate rock, ard kaolin are produced
y in large quantities. The Appalachian
l. forests, more than 5000 square mile
L in extent, furnish an abundance o
u material for sawmills and paper an
e pulp mills. The water power Of tn
y State is used extensively in general
.' ing electric energy, which is trans
= mitted to distances as great as 81
n miles.
y agriculture is the leading indus
Is try. The total value of all farr
70 crops in 1909 was S142, 2,89O,192, sth
e most important products being cot
le ton (including cotton seed) S50,488
345; corn, $31 1,286,1O2; and tobacco
y S13,847,,559. The States cotton Gro
u' of 1914 amounted to 930,631 equivs
lent 5OO-pound bales, or 5.8 per Ger
e of the total for the United State
r. r. The value of merchandise exuorte
u !. through the North Carolina custom
" district during the fiscal year ende
+. June 80, 1914, was $25,870,851; an
~ of merchandise imported, $4,134,45
u "North Cardinals manufacture
v products in 1914 were valued at $2S9
Ali ,987, and the average number
$ wage earners employed in its MANI
e featuring industries was 136,844. l
20 20 that year the State ranked eighteent
u u in the former respect and thirteent
S. in the latter; the corresponding ranl
le ings in 1909 were twenty-third an
D. twelfth. The output of manufactu1
II ed products in North Carolina
III 1914 represented IL per cent OF tf
le total for the United States, as meas
.. ured bv value; the corresponding PR
y portion for both 1909 and 1904 was
IF per cent.
oI Percentages of Increase
ne "The percentages of increase II
gIs North Carolina for the period l9O'
~ 1914 are greater in all important r.
ee et spects than the corresponding on
~ for the United States as a whole; II
IL percentages of increase reported II
North Cardinals wage earners, va
IL ue of products and value added {
az manufacture for that period wei
III u 1875 1876, and 26, respectively; wher
a. a. as the corresponding percentage
~ ae for the United States as a Who'll
IL, IL were only GA, 17.3, and l5:o, r
he he spectively. Thus the States lncrea
he in wage earners and value OF pr
- ducts We're nearly twice as great, pr
w. portionally, as those for the Onlt'
. States as whole, and It's incfea
n value added by manufacture W W
relatively about two-thirds greater
"To a. large extent, the manufa
turing industries of the State depe7
~ upon the products Of agriculture, &C
II ton and tobacco alone furnished t