Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1921-04-28

INCREASE IN
AUDRA|N GO.
(By A. T. Edmonston)


JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, April n.
In three years 1919 over 1917, the
manufacturing products of factories
and workshops Of Mexico, the county
seat of Audrain county, increased in
total worth from $3,426, ,1S9 to $5,-
45O,475, a gain of $2,024, ,2S6, or over
SO per cent, announces advance infor-
nation from the 1920 Missouri Red
Book heralded today by Commissioners
William H. Lewis Of the State Bureau
of Labor Statistics. The amount paid
out for salaries and wages increased
during the same period from SCI 1,618
to $849,720.
Printing and publishing, boots and
shoes, -four and other mill products,
electricity and gas, automobile recon-
structing and repairing, brick and
clay products, and ice. are the classi-
fications which show the largest in
crease in value and quantity produced
during the three years which are con-
sidered in the Bureau Of Labor Stat
istics bulletin.
Included in the Mexico manufactur-
ing compilations for the three years,
1919, 1918 and 1917 is the total values
o the products of carshop, which is
just beyond the city limits in Francis.
but which rightfully belongs to the
industries of that city since its en-
ploys live and disburse their earnings
there.
Mexico's Bright Future Prospects.
With three railroads, the Chicago
and Alton, the Wabash and the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy systems
to carry the products of Mexico fac
tories and workshops TO st. Louis and
Chicago as quickly as they are ready
for the market, this city still offers at
tractive advantages and opportunities
for more industries to locate there,
declares the bulletin. The Mexico
Chamber of Commerce invites CORES
pondence on this subject, it Is averred.
Then comes the assertion that one Of
the largest -four mills Of the State is
located there now and that it and q
shoe factory, the branch Of an exten-
sive shoe manufacturing corporation
+ of st. Louis, in 1919 alone gave eui-
ployment to I48 men and women and
paid them $193,257 for theeir service.
The individual average earnings of
these toilers that year were over $1,-
306.
To manufacture commodities which
had a wholesome factory to manufac-
ture commodities which had whole
sale factory value of S., ,450,47 the
1919 output of S3 Mexico factories
and workshops, it took raw materials
and supplies costing S3,657, ,786. There
was also disbursed during the same
year for rent, all forms of taxes and
for insurance, $127, ,23O, and for mis-
cellaneous purposes, save for divi-
dends and earnings and as profits,
| S262,305. The capital invested in the
Mexico creative activities, totaled ST.
164,67O. The employees numbered 90S,
consisting of 759 of the masculine sex
and 144 women and girls.
| Mexico's manufacturing, 1918 and
1917. Similar statistical information
for the manufacturing and shop work
of Mexico, 1918 and 1917, follows:
The year 1918: total worth of fac
torres, $S,914,516, with 50 establish
ments reporting; cost of materials
and supplies, $2,46S,91S; disbursed in
wages and salaries to 800 employees.
consisting of 744 men and youths and
155 women and girls, S619,107; ex-
pended for rent, taxes and insurance,
s56,124; miscellaneous outlays, $201,-
261; total capital invested $2,076, ,S66.
The year 1917: total worth of man
ufactures, $S,426,1S9; cost of raw ma
terials and supplies, $2,O22, 1929; paid
in wages and salaries to 896 employees,
consisting of TAB men and youths and
1853 women and girls; $601,61S; dis-
bursed for rent, taxes and insurance,
$50, ,042; miscellaneous expenditures,
SITS, ,562 ;total capital invested in
these Mexico energies, $2,022,059.