Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1882 — WORK AND WAGES. [ARTICLE]

WORK AND WAGES.

Some Useful and Interesting Statistics in Regard to Our Manufacturing Industries. Census Bulletin No. 301, recently issued from the Census Bureau at Washington, gives statistics of certain kinds of manufactures in this country, including agricultural Implements, ammunition, boots and shoes, bricks and tiles, firearms, lumber sawed, and paper, and we condense these stat'stics into the following general particulars. In the matter of the manufacture and production of agricultural implements we have the following general results: Number of establishments 1,913 Capital invested $62,109,668.00 Value of materials $11,531.17 Valu' of products $68,640,486.00 Paid for wages $15,359,610,00 Persons employed— Males 38,313 Female’s over 15 years 73 Children 1,194 Total employed 39,580 Average yearly wages (312 day 5)...... $ 3°8.00 Daily average wages $1.24 In the manufacture of boots and shoes, not including custom work and repairing, we have the following details: Number of establishments 1,959 Capital invested $12,991,028.00 Value of materials $ 02,447,442.00 Value of products $166,050,354.00 Paid for wages $43,001,438.00 Persons employed— Males 82,547 Females over 15 years 25,122 Children 3,483 Total employed 111,152 Average yearly wages $387.00 Average daily wages (312 days) $1.20 In the manufacture of bricks and tiles the following are the details returned by the census: Capital invested...- $28,673,616 Value of materials • $>,72®,634 Value of products Paid for wages $13,444,532 Persons employed 66,155 Including children 7,055 Average year I y wages $204 Average daily wages, 65 cents. The reports of the manufacture of firearms show the following results: Capital invested $8,313,289 Value of materials $',781,316 Value of products $5,618,636 Paid for v.ages ■ $2,660,0a9 Pers-ns employed 4,847 The repor-s of the lumber sawyers show the so lowing particulars of that industry: ( api tai invested $ 181,186,122 Value of materials ’. $146,155,385 Value of products $233, 6i,729 Paid for wages $11,845,971 Persons employed It ',956 Average annual wages $215 Average daily wages, 6!) cents. The ihauufacturefs of paper made the following r-tuins of the result of their business during the. census year. We gve the details of their exhibit: Capital invested $46,241,202.00 Number of establishments 692 M iterials used — Rags, tons 187,917 Old paper 87,“40 Waste cotton 12,088 Manila, stock 84,786 Com stock 954 Straw 243,838 Esparto grass 264 Value of above materials $21,581,240.00 Chemicals S3,C.2 J ,798.00 Other materials $7,039,497.00 Pulp put chased $1,681,762.00 'I otal value of materials $.13,931,29 .00 Value of products $55,109,914.00 Pei sons employed, males 16,133 Females over 15 years 7,646 Children 649 Total employed 24,442 Paid lor wages $8,524,855.00 Average yearly wages $329.00 Average daily wages $1.06 The 10l owing tabic .-h iws the < apital invested, the number of hands emplo ed, the amount of wages paid, the value of ma’e. ials used and the value of produces for all the establishments of manufacturing industry, gas excepted, in each of the States and Territories mentioned, as returned in the census of 1880:

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