The Nevada County picayune. (Prescott, Ark.) 190?-current, 1912-05-10

snow an increase OF $4,000, or 11b.b
per cent, in value OF products from
1904 to 1909.
Inc manufacture of copper, tin and
sheet iron products, the carriage and
wagon, and the mattress and spring
bed industries, showed remarkable in
creases, both in gross value of prod.
ucts and in value added by manufac-
ture during the period of 1904 to 1909
For the same period the brick and tile
and manufactured gas industries de-
creased both in value of products and
in value added by manufacture. while
the confectionery industry decreased
in value OF products, and the furniture
and the woodturning and carving in
dustries decreased in value added by
manufacture
Cottonseed Products Decrease.
For the period 1899 to 1904 the cot
tonseed products industry increased in
value added by manufacture, whereas
the bakery products, furniture, manu-
featured ice, cooperage, wood turning
and carving, brick and tile, manufao
turing gas, and confectionery industrie.
increased largely in, both in value of
products and in value added by manu-
facture.
The average number of persons en-
gagged in manufactures during 1909
was 81 ,730, of whom 1882 were wage
earners. Of the remainder, 1922 were
proprietors and officials and 1,S26
were clerks.
For all industries combined 97.3 per
cent Of the average number of wage
earners were males, 16 years of age.
and over; Is per cent females, 16
years of age and over, and IL per cent
children under 16 years of age.
For the great majority of wage earn
ers employed in the manufacturing
industries of Arkansas, the prevailing
hours of labor were so week, 15.5
per cent of the total being employed
in establishments where the hours are
less than 60 week, and only 6.S per
cent being employed more than 60
hours a week.
increase for Little Rock.
The cities of Little Rock, Fort
Smith and Hot Springs showed in
creases in the average number of wage
earners and in value of products, both
from 1899 to 1904 and from 1904 to
1909. Pine Bluff showed an increase
in both respects from 1899 to 1904,
but increased from 1904 to 1909. The
percentages of increase were generally
greater from 1899 to 1904 than from
1904 to 1909.
The largest percentage of increase
in value of products and average num-
Der of wage earners from 1899 to
1904, 213.1 per cent and add 1913 per
cent, as shown for Hot Springs. This
city also shows the greatest percent
age of increase in number OF wage
earners from 1904 to 1909. 40.2, but
Fort Smith shows the greatest percent
age of increase in value of products,
COS, due chiefly to the establishment
of such new industries as the manu-
faeture of brick and tile, carriages
and wagon and materials, refrigerators
and canning and preserving.
From 1904 to 1909 the value of the
manufactured products of Fort Smith
increased COS per cent, and the aver
age number of wage earners employed
there SS.7 per cent.
Products Gain In Value.
During this latter period, Little
Rock, the largest and most important
city in the state, showed an increase
of 46.7 per cent in value of products
and of 23 per cent in the average
number of wage earners, while Pine
Bluff showed a decrease of As per
cent in value of products and of els
per cent in number Of wage earners.
In Little Rock in 1909 the cotton
seed oil mills, the lumber industry
and printing and publishing were the
most important. In Argenta the steam
railroad and repairs and flour mills
and grist mills; in Fort Smith the
manufacture of furniture and refrig-
orators and the manufacture of car
riages and wagons. In Pine Bluff, the
lumber industry and cottonseed oil
mills: and in Hot Springs the lumber
industry and bakeries. the leading in
dustries of Texarkana, Ark, are the
manufactures of flour mill and grist
mill products and or cottonseed oil
and cake, and of Texarkana, Tex, the
cooperage shops and the steam rail-
road reOair ShnDS