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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... but in none of them did the difference exceed 5 per cent. The totals for the 7 cities increased as follows: Number of establishments, 237, or 14.5 per cent; capital, $33,804,434, or 37.2 per cent; number of wage-earners, 4,273, or 10.7 per cent; Wages, $4,747,080, or 26.2 per cent; miscellaneous expenses, $7,603,178, or 87.3 per cent; cost of materials used, $27,816,195, or 29 per cent; and value of products, $42,564,559, or 29.7 per cent. A decrease of 12, or six-tenths of 1 per cent, in the number of wage-earners, was reported for the city of Winona, but every other item for each city increased substantially. For the value of products the largest percentage of increase, 81.3 per cent, is shown for Mankato, and the smallest, 27.5 per cent, for St. Paul. Minneapolis, the largest city of the state, reported by far the largest value of products, the value amounting to $121,593,120, or 39.5 per cent of the total value. From 1900 to 1905 the increases were as follows: Number of establishments, 88, 01' 1 1.2 per cent; capital, $16,522,874, or 32.9 per cent; number of wage-earners, 2,132, or 10.9 per cent; wages paid, $2,076,981, or 22.1 per cent; cost of materials used, $20,176,599, or 29.3 per cent; and value of products, $27,185,346, or 28.8 per cent. Of the total value of manufactures in Minneapolis in 1905, the value of the flour and grist mill products formed 51.6 per cent, and in no other city in the world has this industry reached such proportions. The preeminence of Minneapolis in this industry is due to several causes, the principal one being the early utilization of the waterpower furnished by the Falls of St. Anthony, although the industry has advanced to such an extent that this large supply of power is insufficient for the...
