The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-01-11

financial condition Of employees;
thirteen per cent report no improve
ment; twenty-five per cent DO not
answer. Seventy per cent report inn
proVement III educational lines; six
per cent no n~proEenlent: twenty
four per cent do not answer. Eighty
nine per cent of answers indicate that
labor laws are complied With: seven
tenthS Of one per cent that they are
not; ten and three-fourtils per cent
do not answer. Per cent of opera
tlVcS who read a3l1 write is given as
e~lghtS-fouT per cent.
The average wages for males
IS s1.34; low average s. cents. The
high average fer females is $t.c9, low
average IS cents.
one hundred and sixtE~stven mills
pay wages weekly: ihS pay twice a
month; twelve pay monthly: one pays
~tr!-n1"nthly: fonT Iniila 90 not give
this Information.
the average number Of hours on
shutting 4 days work Is 1859. one
hundred and eighteen Of tho 212
mills use steam as motive power;
~c3gllty-onc nso electricity; forty-two
steam and water; thirty-four water;
tWenty-thrCc electric n steam; four
steam. electric and water: one gas.
thre" DO ret report.
The Knitting Mills.
Si&tE-threa knitting mills are re-
ported fer 1899, and show q capital
stock OF $3.55%.o4o. The uuraher Of
spin6les III use IN these mills is given
rs 74,440; knitting machines. G.3i%:
sewing machines, els; maxim" use
Of 5,719 horse power,
Iorty-scFcn mills use steam for
power; s use electricity: ; use gaao-
line; one each use electric and steam.
water, steam and water.
NuuGbt OF employees reported is g.
SCI; ?, 155 males ana t,713 females;
1902 persons are dependent on the
operation Of these mills tor a lixeji-
hood.
Wages are as follows: High av-
rage, males. $2.1G; low average.
males, 6G cents. high avcrago, fc-
males. $1.43: low average, females.
80 cents.
Employees OF twenty-threc mills are
paid weekly; Of i mills semi
monthly: Of two m~otnhiy: two mills
do rot nSn-e
One mill works Il Il hours per
day; eleyel mills work II hours: five
mills work 10 ID hours: thirty-nfne
mills work 10 hours; one mill works
8 Il hours; one mill works q hours.
F1ltN-One per cent Of mills report
no change in wages: forty per cent
report wages increased; nine Per cent
DO not answer this question. Sixty
five per cent OF mills report financial
condition OF employees improved; siE-
teen per cent report that it is not
improved; nineteen per cent do not
answer.
General proficiency is reported i'm
proved from Is per cent Of the mills:
from eleven per cent that il has not
improved; fourteen per cent do not
report.
Summary BY Counties.
-AlaHiaEitt ,~l "ent-tne cotton. one
wooden and six finioting mills. $685.
us capital stock, operating 136,448
and - sewing machines, employing
7,103 horsepower.
AlexanGer-Four cotton mills,
s29Z,100 capital stock. operating IS
Az apindles and $50 looms, employ
ing $50 horse-poWer.
ADSon-onc cotton and one silk
mill, $4,000 capital stock. operating
21,0I6 spindles, employing 5o5 horse
power.
A-he~Onc WOODEN mill $4,000
capital stock, operating 500 spindles.
employing Is horsepower.
Bcauf0ri-Cue knitting mill. can't
tai stock not reported, operating 35
knitting and ) sewing machines, en-
pIoyinS IS horsepower.
BUncosntc-TWo cotton and one
WOODEN mill. S47G,S0o capital took.
operating 10,322 spindles and $40
icOf11S, E!iptoS ilS oo@ nt~iSt-poWtE.
BIrke--TWo cotton and two knit
ting mills, s2T5,t00 capital stock, op-
Grating 16,440 spindles, 81 knitting
and s sewing machines, employing 1877
horsepower.
Cabarrus-Fourteen cotton and one
knitting mill. $2,415,50o capital stock.
operating 24%,fI4 spindles. 5,046
looms and "A knitting machines, en-
ploying 1850 horsepower.
Caiiuell-SeVen cotton n II
cotton and wooden mill, S1,0S1.200
capital stock, operating ?8,776 spin
dies, 700 looms and 260 knitting ma
chimes, employing 2,S42 horsepower.
| Cnatlsam-TWo cotton mills, 103,-
500 capital stock, operating $4,000
spindles, employing ESQ horsepower.
Chowan-One cotton mill, $780,
900 capital stock, operating 1882
spindles, employing $40 horsepower.
CIeyeEand-Ten cotton mills, $780,
/ 400 capital stock cpcEltiDg 100000