This is the first of three final Census Reports on Manufactures of the Thirteenth Census, taken in the year 1910 for the calendar year 1909.

Volume VIII contains fifteen chapters, six tables, appendices, and an index:

CHAPTERS

1. Introduction to General Explanations
2. General Summary for the United States
3. Summary, by Industries, for the United States as a Whole
4. Summary, by States and Geographic Divisions
5. Statistics for Individual Cities
6. Distribution of Manufacturing Industries among Communities Classified According to Size
7. Local Concentration of Certain Industries
8. Expenses
9. Character of Ownership
10. Establishments Classified According to Size
11. Persons Engaged in Manufacturing Industries
12. Prevailing Hours of Labor
13. Power Used in Manufacturing
14. Consumption of Fuel in Manufacturing Industries
15. Description of Individual Industries, with Principal Statistics for Each

TABLES

1. Comparative summary for the United States, by industries: 1909, 1904, and 1899
2. Capital, expenses, value of products, persons engaged, and power and fuel, for the United States, by industries: 1909
3. Comparative summary, by geographic divisions and states: 1909, 1904, and 1899
4. Capital, expenses, value of products, persons engaged, and power and fuel, by geographic divisions and states: 1909
5. Comparative summary–Principal industries, by states: 1909, 1904, and 1899
6. Number of establishments, persons engaged, power, capital, expenses, and value of products–Industries, by states: 1909

APPENDICES

• A. Schedules
• B. Instructions to special agents
• C. Instructions for editing and revising the schedules of manufactures
• D. Classification of industries