Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1882 — INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.

Interesting Figures from the Census Reports. Census Bulletin Na 801, recently issued from the Census Bureau at Washington, gives statistics of certain kinds of manufactures in this country, including agr|cifitural 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 1,943 Capital invested .$62,109,663.9) Value of materials $31,531.17 Value of products $68,640,486.00 Paid for wages. $15,359,610,00 Persons employed— Males 38,313 Females over 15 years 73 Children 1,194 Total employed 39,580 Average yearly wages (312 days) $ 3 J 8.00 Dally 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 is years 25,122 Children 3,493 Total employed 111,152 Average yearly wages $387.00 Average dally 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 $ (,728,6 <4 Value of products $32, 3 ’,587 Paid for wages $1 <,444,532 Persons employed 66,155 Including children 7,055 Average yearly wages $204 Average dally wages, 65 cents. The reports of the manufacture of firearms show the followin' results: Capital invested $3,3 3,289 Value of materia’s $,781,316 Value of pr ducts $5,618,636 Paid for "ages Persons employed 4,847 The repo r- s of the lumber sawyers show the so lowing particulars of that industry: Capital Invested $181,186,122 Value of materials $146,155,385 Value of products $233, 6;,729 Paid for wages $11,845,971 Persons employed If > 956 Average annual wages $215 Average dally wages, 69 cents. The manufacturers of paper made the following returns of the re ;ult of their business during the census year. We g>ve the details of meir exhibit: Capital invested $46,241,202.00 Number of establishments 692 Materials used — Rags, tons 187.917 Old paper 87,840 Waste cotton 12,088 Manila stock 84,786 Corn stock.. 954 Straw 243,838 Esparto grass 264 Value of above materials $21,581,240.00 Chemicals $3,62-1,798.00 Other materials $7,039,497.00 Pulp purchased $1,681,762.00 Total value of materials $33,931,29 .00 Value of products $55,109,914.00 Persons employed, males 16,133 Females over 15 years 7,646 Children 649 Total employed 24,442 Paid for wages $8,524,855.00 Average yearly wages $329.00 Average daily wages $1.06 The iol'owing table >h ws the < apital invested, the number of hands emplo ed, the amount of w ges paid, the value of ma e ials used and the value of products for all the establishments of manufacturing in iustry, gas excepted, in each of the States and Territories mentioned, as returned in the census of 1880: Ip Pi hr i •••siuamqsnqviwjOTOqumH w,d ’° 6 SSSSg JO IdqUinU » m h M » -paXoiduio 21 OAoqv : £ sdpmiGj jo laquiuu ojhuoAy * _____ * h- co oo paXofduio sqinoX pu« mS 38838 uoipnqo joioquiuu omaoAy M NO O’ HX « Cfi 52** <DWX ifUJITIp sa»jM UJ P[Bd <junouiv [V)OX iomin _ 8 3 ionpord p

There are in San Frandisco four palatial houses worth together more than $3,000,000. Their owners, ex-Gov. Stanford, Charles Crocker, Mrs. Mark Hopkins and Mr. Colton, represent about $130,000,000. The magnificent structures stand unoccupied about teu months of each year.