The Green Forest tribune., 1912-05-10

show an increase of ss92,O0O, or t15.s 1904 to 1909.
 The 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- factured ice, cooperage, wood turning and carving, brick and tile, mapufac 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 51, ,730, of whom 44,9S2 were wage earners. Of the remainder, 1922 were i were clerks.
 For all industries combined 97.3 per cent of the average number of wage earners were males, I6 years of age, and over; Is per cent females, 16 years of age and over, and 1.2 per cent children under 16 years of age.
 For the great majority of wage earn CTS employed in the manufacturing industries of Arkansas, the prevailing hours of labor were GO a week, 155 per cent of the total being employed in establishments where the hours are less than 60 a 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 of; lIIr 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 194.3 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, 605, due chiefly to the 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 60.5 per cent, and the aver age number of wage earners employed there 3S.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 2.3 per cent in the average number of wage earners, while Pine Bluff showed a decrease of 4.5 per cent in value of products and of 21.5 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 orators and the manufacture of car riages and wagons. In Pine Bluff, the lumber industry and cottonsead 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 of cottonseed oil and cake, and of TeXarkana, Tex, the cooperage shops and the steam rail- road repair shops.