The Van Buren press., 1912-05-11
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.TION.

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For the perva ts9s to 1904 the cot.
tonseed products industry increased In
value added by manufacture. whereas
the bakery products, furniture, manu-
factured ice, cooperage wood turning
and carving, brick and tile, manufac-
turing gas, and confectionery industries
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, i,922 we're
proprietors and officials and l,S2G
were clerks.
HYirrS tyb combined 973 per
cent OF the aPvra.,e number OF wage
earners were males, 16 years of age,
and over. is per cent females, IL
years Of age and over, and l.2 per cent
children under l6 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, l5.5
per cent OF the total being employed
in establishments where the hours are
less than co 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 1903. 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-
ber OF wage earners from 1899 10
1904, 2l3.t per cent and add l9i3 per
cent az 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 tho establishment
OF such new industries as the manu-
facture 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 carners employed
there 3S,7 per cent
Products Gain In Value.
During this latter period, Little
Rock, the largest and most important
city in tho state, showed an increase
OF iG.7 per cent In value OF products
and OF 2.3 per cent In the average
number OF wage earncrs, while Pine
Bluff showed decrease OF as per
cent in value OF products and OF 2l.S
per cent In number OF wage Careers.
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 grst mills; In Fort Smith tho
manufacture OF furniture and refrlg'
orators and the manufacture OF car
riages and wagons, In Pine Bluff, tho
lumber industry ana cottonseed oil
mills, and In Hot Springs tho lumber
industry and bakeries the leading In
dustries Of Texorkana, Ark, are tho
manufactures OF flour mill and grlst
mill products and OF cottonseed oil
and cake, and OF TeSarkana, Tex, the
oooporagc shops and the steam rail-
road repair shops,