Crittenden record-press., 1918-08-29
cess profits last year were from II "
400 per cent.
Coal Men Pile Up Wealth.

The PENNSYLVANIA and West vir
ginia soft coal mining companies made
enormous excess profits in 1917. &C.
.cerding to the report. The large com,
panies all made profits In 1916 ranging
from 25 to $50 per cent.
In 1917 all Of the large bitumlnous
operators, the report shows, made un-
usual profits. One mine made 1,626
per cent on Its capital in 1915 and 4,3S7
per cent In 1917. Another made l.612
per cent In 1916 and 5.9S3 per cent In
1917.
Profits Of the midcontinent bitumi-
nous operators were smaller. averag.
ing 80 per cent.
The big oil producing companies Of
Illinois, Indiana. New York. Pennsyi-
vania, Ohio. Kentucky. Tennessee, and
West Virginia made from 2s to 800
per cent In 1916 and enormous excess
profits In 1917. The Texas Oklahoma
and Kansas oil companies showed
similar profits for both years.
All Of the garment manufacturers
made gigantic profits 10 1910, those for
the larger companies ranging from rs
to rs per cent that year. They showed
excess profits In l9l1 Of from 5 TO IS
per cent.
Small dealers In -four and grain,
with capital stock Of from $1,000 to
5000, made excess profits that ranged
as h1sh as $40 per cent.
The report also shows that the small
dealers in furniture and other house
hold goods made enormous profits last
year. with excess proHts as high as $50
per cent.
Retail dealers in tobacco made enor-
nous profits of the smokers Of the
country. the highest being SITE per
cent, and the average approximately
80 per cent In 1915. These prohY
were doubled during 1917.
Auto BuIlders Wax Fat
Most Of the automobile companies
bit high marks In earnings In 1915, but
they went suu higher In 1917. The
largest listed. however. did not show
any extraordinary increase In profits
over those Of 1915 One company with
$3l. .0OO,O capital In 1916 earned ST.
100000. then boosted It's capital stock
to S96,OOO,00 and then earned S2S,.
100000. A $4,000. 900 concern which
esrned $4.60s, 900 In tsl6 made $685..
900 In 1e11. A sl8,0O0,000 company
made s4.7lS.0O0 In 1917, against a..
10000 In 1915
A tin plate mill with &4o.oo0. 900 cap
ital made $4,000, 900 ket prO6t In 1917,
against $4,000, 900 In 1910, or an 10
crease Of i2 per cent on Its capital
stock. %
Transportation public utilities, and
light and power companies. with very
few exceptions Jared exceedingly well
during 1916 and 1917. Their pronts
in 1915 generally ranged from Q ID 90
per cent on theIs capital stock, while
they nearly all made excess profits In
1917 Of from 8 to IS per cent PROFITS
Of the large public utilities companies
In 1919 and 19l7 ranged from II 10 Is
per cent
Steam and electric railroads In 1915
made from II to 201 per cent pronts
while in 1917 they made profits In
excess Of 1910 that ranged between II
and 20 pes cent according to the n.
port.
Marine, IRE, and life insurance con
Germs enjoyed unusually large In
creases In profits. One company
earned 493 per cent more on its cap
ital stock In 1917 than In 1915. An
other capitalized at 100000 increased
Its income from $S24.00O in 1919 Il
SST7a00O in 1917.
How Dry ooods Men Fared.
A list of 2.092 clothing and dr.
goods merchants, including department
stores, showed profits for 1917 in ex
cess Of those over 1915, as high al
1918 per cent on the capital stock
The concerns making the enormous
profits however, were the smalls
6rms.
Retail Erocefs and provision broker
made their enormous war profits
In 1915, the report shows. The gro
GERS made only q small profit In 1911
In excess Of their 1915 profits. OF tn
1883 concerns listed In the report
however, only q dozen show profits o
less than 20 per cent on their capita
stock In 1915. the year before the Unit
ed States entered the war. and III
profits Of some concerns that yea
were as high as 1913 per cent Mos
Of the grocers, both large and SINAI
concerns, the report shows. made Q,
erage profits In 1915 Of from 80 to 20
per cent.