The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1920-09-03

paid out $4,000 to 1852 workers,
the same consisting of 1892 men and
youths and 26O women and girls. The
average individual earnings that year
were $640.
The average increase in annual
earnings per toiler, 1919 over 1914, a
period of five years, salaried persons
as we'll as manual workers. was $558,
or nearly 87.2 per cent head. The
consumer paid the bill.
When it comes to number of packs
ing establishments, st. Louis easily
excels st. Joseph and the balance of
the state combined. Preliminary 1919
information from twenty-seven St.
Louis meat packing and sausage max
ing plants indicate that the total
worth of output reached 1913, $3.50,
as compared to $93,342,932 for 1918;
and $63,484,S24 for 1917; and $780,
955, 621 for 1916; and $36,955,314 for
1915; and $36,634,0 900 for 1914.
The st. Louis packing and sausage
making plants, including stock on
hand, January /, 1920, represented a
total investment of $12,675,3S8, as
compared to $7,S96,814 for 1914.
The 1919 St. Louis army Of wage
earners and salaried persons consist
ed of 4089, divided between 3,771 men
and youths, and 318 women and girls.
The expansion of this industry in five
years is shown by that in 1914 the st.
Louis plants considered only en-
ployed 1929 workers, consisting of
2,235 men and youths and "a women
and girls. The 1919 army of toilers
drew $4,943,1 in wages and salaries,
yearly individual average of $1,000,
compared with total pay roll for the
year 1914 of $1,817,930, yearly in
dividual average of $751;. The average
gain in annual wages, employees of st.
Louis packing houses only, 1919 over
1914, was $428 each, or nearly 54.7
per cent per head.
Meats Worth $30,OOO,OOO from Farms
Returns from the larger packing
houses of Kansas City, Sedalia, Kinks
vile, Springfield, Warrensburg, Col
umbia, Maryville, Brooktield and JEFF
ferson City, form part Of the total
worth of manufacturing, Missouri
packing houses, considered in this
Missouri Bureau of Labor Statistics
industrial treatise, but the figures dc
not include the output of packing
houses in Kansas, across the line from
Missouri's Kansas City, or any retail
meat selling establishments which
slaughter, dress and cure meats and
poultry and whose individual pearly
outputs do not reach the worth OF
100000. If such establishments were
also considered it would probably add
another 100000 to the total worth
of this huge state industry. Neither
is there cognizance taken of the
worth of the big quantity of meats
and poultry dressed and packed or
Missouri farms which are annually
marketed by Missouri farmers, the
same constituting rustic side line
which in 1919 easily had total worth
of $30,0O0,000.
Wholesale Poultry Packing, Missouri
1919 and 1914
The constant growth in Importance
of Missouri's wholesale poultry
slaughtering, dressing and packing by
skilled labor in power. plants, erected
and fitted for that purpose, is showr
by the fact that in 1919 fifteen sucF
corporations of Missouri reported al
output worth $14 ,409,270, as compared
to $2,3S7, JAG in 1914, a gain in worth
of $12,022,124, or over 504 per cent
There was invested in these plants il
1919, $4,000, as compared to S288,
1919 in 1914.
This Missouri industry in 1919 gave
employment to 730 workers, consist