GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THE ENORMOUS ENERGY EXPENDED IN MANUFACTURES IN THE UNITED STATES.
The total steam power employed in manufactures in the United States in 1905 was 10.664,560. A single steam engine of this power would measure 400 feet by 255 feet on the base, and would extend 735 feet into the air, or 123 feet above the Singer building. To develop the total electric horse-power of 1,138,208 would call for a generator with a 134-foot base, and 126 feet high. The total of 298,514 gas engine power would require an engine 350 feet long by 80 feet high. Now the Woolworth Building could be substituted for the Singer Building.
MANUFACTURES: A SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES AND NON-CONTIGUOUS TERRITORY, 1909.
A SUMMARY OF THE PRINCIPAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR SPECIFIED YEARS: 1909, 1904, 1889; AND THE PER CENT.
CONDITIONS OF MANUFACTURES IN THE UNITED STATES AT EACH CENSUS: 1849-1909
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VARIATION OF WAGE EARNINGS OF THOSE EMPLOYED BY MONTHS.
Among the principal industries of the United States several show a great variation in the number of wage earners employed at various times
of the year.
The brick and tile industries employ an average of 76,528 wage earners during the year, the maximum number, 104,930, being
employed in July, and the minimum number. 38,312, in January; the canning and preserving industries employ an average of 59,968 men,
154,800 being the maximum number in September, and 19,998 the minimum in January; the fertilizers employ an average of 18,310 men,
the maximum number, 29,310, being reached in March, and the minimum number, 14,264, in July; oil, cottonseed, and cake industries
employ an average of 17,071 men, the maximum number, 29,334 being reached in November, and the minimum, 5,174, in July; in the ice
manufactories the average number of men employed was 16,114, the maximum number, 22,872, being reached in July, and the minimum,
9,847, in January; the artificial stone industries employed an average of 9,957 men, the maximum number, 12,884, being reached in August,
and the minimum number, 4,856, in January; the straw and hats industries employed an average of 8,814 men, the maximum number of
men employed being reached in March, when they employed 11,488 men, and the minimum number, 4,700, in July; in the sugar beet indus-
tries the average number of men employed was 16,807, the maximum number of employees, 16,807, being reached in November, and the
minimum number, 2,206, in February; in the sugar and molasses industries the average number of employees was 4,127, the maximum num-
ber, 15,761, being reached in November, and the minimum, 559, in February; the vinegar and cider industries employed an average of 1,542
men, the maximum number, 3,464, being reached in October, and the minimum number, 886, being reached in March.
SUMMARY OF INDUSTRIES, BY STATES AND WAGE EARNERS: 1909.
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