Manufactures 1909; Reports by States, with Statistics for Principal Cities (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... the 677 establishments reported in 1909, only 6, or nine-tenths of 1 per cent, each had a value of products exceeding $1,000,000. These establishments/ however, employed an average of 4,130 wage earners, or 35.4 per cent of the total number in all establishments, and reported 68.1 per cent of the total value of products and 45.5 per cent of the total value added by manufacture. The very small establishments--that is, those having a value of products of less than $5,000--although constituting 38.6 per cent of the total number of establishments, produced only nine-tenths of 1 per cent of the total value of products. Most of the manufacturing was carried on in establishments which reported a product valued at not less than $100,000. During the five years the average value of products per establishment decreased from $173,862 to $108,230, the value added by manufacture from $66,716 to $35,586, and the average number of wage earners from 23 to 17. These decreases are undoubtedly caused to a great extent by the large increase in the number of establishments employing but few wage earners and having small value of products. The table shows further that the, baking and printing and publishing industries in Montana are conducted chiefly in the smaller establishments, while the lumber and timber industry is conducted mainly in larger establishments. In some respects; and especially from the standpoint of conditions under which persons engaged in manufactures work, the best classification of establishments to bring out the feature of size is a classification according to the number of wage earners employed. The next table shows, for 1909, such a classification for all industries combined and for seven important industries individually, and gives not only the number o...