The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-06-22
County s Industries
Small But Growing
1897 MANUFACTURING
HERE WELL OVER '29
MARK, SURVEY SHOWS

Redwood county is definitely
not a manufacturing county as
compared with many in Mime
sofa but its industries are on the
upgrade according to figures re-
leased this week by the business
trends committee, authorized by
the 1887 legislature, and furnish
ed The Gazette by the Associated
Press.
Redwood was one of Is coun-
ties, among 80 covered in the re-
port, which enjoyed an increase in
"value added by manufacturing
in 1887 compared with 1929, peak
year in which the depression
started.
The value of all manufacturing
industry in Redwood county in
1887 was $225, 900 which compar-
es with $4,000 in 1929. The
history of county manufacturing
through the depression years is
told in these figures: 1931-$181,-
900; 1933-$115,000 and 1886
5000, 1000. Manufacturing, like
farming and retail business, went
into a tailspin in 1929 and didn't
emerge until 1887.
Among nearby counties, both
Lyon and Renville have shown a
decided loss. Lyon had indus
tries producing $1,089,000 in
wealth in 1919 which were re-
duced TO $543, 900 by 1929, or ap-
proximately half. The trend was
upward in 1881 with $6O5 900 but
1888 showed 1862 900, 1885, $685.
900 and 1887, SAIL, 900. Renville
county manufacturers produced
$185, 900 in wealth in 1887, same
figure as for 1888, a gain from a
low of $4,000 in 1885. The figure
for 1929 was 1921 900 while for
1919 it was $406,00O.
Brown county has the largest
manufactures in this section and
gained with the legalizing of beer.
Its figure of $2,480,000 for 1887
was a loss from $2,866,O00. ,foc
1885 but a substantial gain from
the 1888 low of $1,686,00O. The
figure for 1929 was $2,756, 900 and
for 1919, $2,088,000
Yellow Medicine had $103, 900
manufactures in 1887 compared
with $145,O0O ten years ago and
$241 900 20 years ago while Cot
tonwood had $4,000 compared
with a high of $115,OOO in 1929
and 100000 in 1919. Murray
county figures are $4,000 for
1887, $133,000 for 1929 and $72,-
900 for 1919.
MinneSota's manufacturing fig
ure for 1887 was $312,898, 900
compared with $404,995,O0 in
1929.
Diversified manufacturing in
the four leading industrial coun-
ties of the state-Hennepin, Ram
sey, st. Louis and Dakota-was
more susceptible to depressions
than the other counties of the
state, according to the survey.
The value of the industries in
the four leading counties account
ed. for only 71.19 per cent of the
state total in 1887 as compared
with 75.11 per cent in 1929, while
the manufacturing activity in the
remaining counties was less sensi-
tive to national business condi-
tionS because it consists largely
in processing of agricultural pro-
ducts.
Farm Income Gains
Iron ore, farm products and
construction contracts were listed
among the selected sources of in
come, with the study revealing a
steady rise each year, from 1888
to 1887, in the gross cash farm
income, in the value of iron ore
shipped from the mines and in
the value of construction con-
tracts.
The farm income total in 1888
of SIT, 100000 was boosted to
$2l8,000,000 in 1884; to $241 ,0O0,-
600 in 1885, to 5000, 0OO,OO in
1886 and to $311 900 900 in 1887.
The comparative value of iron
ore shipped was $50, $4,000 in
1888 and Sal, $4,000 in 1887.
Value of construction contracts
jumped from $25,315, 900 in 1888
to $54,739,0OO in 1887.
An Improvement in the number
OF wage earners in all manufact-
uring industry in 1887 as compar-
ed with 1885 was noted. Mime
sofa had 89,925 in 1887 and 49,
241 in 1885.