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236 TIE TEXAS ALMANAC.
Texas Manufacturing by Industries.-(Continued.)
(1) Includes blank book making.
(2) In the census of 1919 canning is given as one industry and pickle and sauce manufacture as an-
other, but they are combined In the census of 1923.
(3) The two Items, "Liquors, Malt" and "Mineral and Soda Waters" of the 1919 census are combined
and listed singly as "Beverages" In the census of 1923.
(4) Does not include paving brick.
(5) In 1919 "Book and Job Printing" is shown separately from "Newspaper and Periodical Printing,"
combined in 1923.
(6) When there are so few establishments of any one kind that publication of figures of the group
would tend to reveal individual operations, the Government withholds figures.
L:sted below are some of the chief Texas industries under their classification; figures refer to num-
ber of establishments: Agricultural implements, 5; bags, paper, exclusive of those made in paper mills, 1;
baking powder, 1; blacking, stains, etc., 2; boot and shoe findings, 2; boxes, cigar, 1; boxes, paper and
other, not elsewhere specified, 3; brushes, 1; buttons, 2; cars, steam railroad, not including operations of
railroad companies, 2; chewing gum, 1; cordage and twine, 1; cordials and flavorings, 6; cutlery, edge
tools, knives, 1; dairy, aplary, poultry supplies 2, engraving and die sinking, 2; envelopes, 1; explosives, 4;
fireworks. 1; furs, dressed, 1; glass, 2; hardware, 2; hardware, saddlery, 1: hats, straw, 1; house furnish-
ing goods, mops. dusters, etc., 1; instruments, professional and scientific, 1; iron and steel. blast fur-
naces, 1; iron and steel, steel works and rolling mills, 1; labels and tags, 2; lamps and reflectors, 1;
lapidary work, 1; lard, not-made in slaughtering and meat packing establishments, 1; leather goods, not
elsewhere specified, 1; looking glass and picture frames, 2; millinery and lace goods, embroideries and
trimmed hats and hat frames, 4, minerals and earths, ground or otherwise treated, 3; models and patterns,
not including paper patterns, 3; mucilage and paste and other adhesives not elsewhere specified, 1; mu-
sical instruments and materials, not elsewhere specified, 1; paper and wood pulp, 2; plumbers' supplies, not
elsewhere specified, 2; pocketbooks. 1; poultry, killing and dressing, not done in slaughtering and meat
packing establishments, 3; printing and publishing, music, 2; printing materials, 2; refrigerators, 2; sand-
lime brick, 1; saws, 1; scales and balances, 1; shipbuilding, steel. 1; shirts, 2; smelting and refining, cop-
per. 1, soap, 4; soda water apparatus, 1; stencils and brands, 1; stoves and ranges, 1; stoves, gas and
oil, 1; sugar, cane, 1; sugar, refining, 2; sulphuric, nitric and mixed acids, 1; surgical appliances, 1; tin-
ware, not elsewhere specified, 1; tools, not elsewhere specified, 2; toys and games, 1; typewriters and
parts, 1; washing machines and clothes wringers, 2; waste, cotton, 3; whips, 1; windmills, 1; wirework, not
elsewhere specified, 6; wood distillation, 1; wooden goods, not elsewhere specified, 1, worsted goods, 1.
(7) According to Mr M . K. Miller of the Athens Pottery Company, Inc., Athens and Fort Worth, the
census figures are incomplete His figures on the Texas pottery industry are. Number of plants, 10, em-
ployed, 170; capital, $405 000; products, $200,000; H. P., 415.
SfiANlk ACTURING. BY STATES, 1921 AND 1923.From United States census reports.
Number of
establishments.
State- 1921. 1923.
Alabama ........... 1,855 1,993
Arizona ....... ....269 286
Arkansas ........... 1,289 1,231
California .......... 8,696 9,228
Colorado ........1...,491 1,377
Connectticut ....... 3,320 3,130
Delaware ........... 460 453
District of Columbia. 490 600
Florida ............. 1,720 1,690
Georgia ............ 2,809 3.057
Idaho .............. 485 510
Illinois ............. 13,952 14,348
Indiana ............ 5,109 4,909
Iowa .............. 3,527 3,420
Kansas ............. 1,926 1,786
Kentucky ........... 2,038 1,975
Loimsana .......... 1,851 1,781
Maine .............. 1,761 1,642
Maryland ......... 3,128 3,168
Massachusetts ..... 9,994 10,531
Michigan ........... 5,718 5,698
Minnesota .... 4,089 3,902
Mississippi ......... 1,116 1,235
Missour ........... 5,442 5,292
Montana ........... 571 679
Nebraska .......... 1,390 1,377
Nevada ...... ... 107 104
New Hampshire..... 1,122 1,080
New Jersey......... 8,784- 8,766
New Mexico......... 194 186
New York........... 38,107 38,187
North Carolina...... 2,602 2,670
North Dakota........ 388 340
Ohio .............. 11,479 11,196
Oklahoma .......... 1,398 1,243
Oregon ........... 1,730 1,907
Pennsylvania ....... 20,290 19,055
Rhode Island........ 1,759 1,692
South Carolina....... 1,107 1,180
South Dakota........ 574 489
Tennessee .......... 2,245 2,307
Texas .............. 3,566 3,693
Utah............... 645 586
Vermont 1,101 1,021
Virginia ............ 2,570 2,740
Washington ....... 2,908 3,032
West Virginia...... 1,550 1,487
Wisconsin .... 7,291 7,834
Wyoming ............. 254 246
U. S ...........196,267 196,340- Value of products--
1921. 1923.
$302,809,000 $541,718,625
39,110,000 123,377,203
119,029,000 173,085,207
1,758,682,000 2,216,639,248
221,324,000 235,182,504
836,164,000 1,288,292,C00
86,756,000 128,951,304
67,639,000 73,107,854
145,821,000 188,258,384
381,296,000 604,449,555
57,068,000 87,428,909
3,705,380,000 5,041,519,545
1,377,772,000 2,031,821,938
621,446,000 690,042,714
561,134,000 605,037,334
302,742,000 427,089,796
479,100,000 624,682,620
339,562,000 402,650,267
637,574,000 903,403,512
2,849,414,000 3,583,205,344
2,206,230,000 3,870,434,161
850,447,000 968,476,565
114,084,000 178,581,729
1,162,006,000 1,547,167,429
80,771,000 175,007,157
333,565,000 415,015,844
13,371,000 22,242,524
246,346,000 333,124,503
2,556,143,000 3,321,301,524
13,897,000 20,422,126
6,973,506,000 8,960,693,128
665,118,000 951,910,599
36,358,000 42,145,471
3.300,693,000 5,046,504,133
283,764,000 315,197,148
223,664,000 363,912,328
5,059,009,000 7,438,609,142
517,118,000 675,425,020
236,421,000 360,445,737
41 558,000 47,320,901
374,038,000 555,252,759
842.438,000 979,192,057
111,055,000 191,586,226
113,94,000 149,951,623
434,261,000 548,158,896
448,165,000 660,538,407
310,423,000 489 508,462
1,214.861,000 1,721,501,052
80,247,000 110,631,659
$43,653,283,000 $60,450,680,531Wage-earners
(average number).
1921. 1923.
82,748 109,520
4,774 9,008
33,431 44,544
198,334 246,975
27,625 31,226
210,990 263,160
17,754 23,188
8,640 9,823
53,289 _ 65,038
98,264 137,383
10,783 16,347
513,876 645,448
206,534 291,131
62,274 77,842
44,938 51,255
58,840 76,836
85,110 94,597
75,710 83,327
107,085 129,837
579,071 667,758
304,471 503,492
85,804 103,344
42,222 54,333
156,384 196,693
11,384 15,943
27,655 31,267
2,393 4,665
67,416 75,324
381,773 447,948
4,477 5,439
1,000,414 1,150,901
135,833 173,687
3,107 3,551
494,288 699,031
22,241 25,488
40,167 62,655
863,917 1,095,066
112,745 134,667
76,251 96,802
4,635 5,146
75,446 106,504
88,707 102,358
13,310 15,901
25,767 30,784
88,555 111,578
77,518 111,662
60,536 85,661
191,770 247,757
7,254 7,457
6,946,570 8,779,367Wages paid.
1923.
$95,757,727
12,635,070
37,865,864
353,203,303
40,652,745
314,832,582
27,368,652
14,795,722
52,356,618
92,243,788
22.886,215
913,326,203
374,509,629
94,206.205
65,0536,339
82.647,889
83,030,577
91,854.368
136,275,410
798,267,701
768,659,249
125,710,684
40,018,853
228.014,986
24,540,317
39,760,667
7,795,029
79,073,889
578,999,234
6,483,635
1,582,005,519
127,543,821
5,134.350
979.659,869
33,068,705
81,768,700
1,450,826,374
150,499,859
64,753,457
6,210,607
92,481,539
111,641,949
19,783.915
34.693,484
104,686,099
156,434,842
109,926 819
297,428.889
12,501,584
$11,023,703,531
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