The Forrest City times., 1912-05-10

tC@ '@ea-f tA F1aAE OA AA 0AANAS AAOsA- 1904 to 1909.
 The manufacture os copper. tin and sheet iron products. the carriage and wagon. and the mattress and spring bed industries. showed re1szrEabl in ereases. both in gross fales of prod. ucts and in value added hy maaufae. Jgre during the period of 1904 to 1909 For The same period the brick and tile and maaa5aetGrei gas industries de creased both iR value of products and in value added by manufacture. while the c9Hfeetio ioHery industry decreased il Eaiue of products. and the farni =zrz and rhe w0oG-ura.az and carving in- dus;r.es decreased sa value added b. manufacture
 cottonseed Products Decrease.
 For tAc period 1Ss9 10 leo4 fhe cct. touseed products industry increased in value added b manufacture. whereas the bakery products. furniture, mana factlTed ice. cOoperaCe. wood turning and carvine brick and :ile. manusae- turing gas and confectionery industries increased largely in. uosa ta value e products and n value added r.. n.ai.a. faetsre
 The avesase rsaber et rersens CT. zazed tn manufactures during 1909 Rss 5fs754. Of whom 44.3S2 were wage earners Qf the remainder. 3.a42 wels frop-ietors and officials and 1923 were clerks.
 For al industries combined s7.3 per cen Of the average number Of wage earEe-s were males. IG years O. age. and ote7: 1-5 per cent females. le years ef age aad over. and = per cent children under 16 years of age
 For the s-oat majority Of wage earn. CTS employed in the manufacturing industries of Arkansas. the prevailing hours cf labor were @ 2 week. lJ,5 per cent q tAe toJal being employed ln establishments where the hours are less than e0 q week. and only G.S per cent teinE employed more than 6 hours a week.
 Increase fer Little Rock.
 AF 64tHeS OI i-tEtIe hOtht T UT | Smith and lot Springs showed in. ereases in the average number Of wage earRers ana in value Of products. both from 1899 to I90i and from 1904 10 1908 Pine Bluff showed an increase in both respects from 1899 to 1901. but increased from l90i to 1909. The percentages of increase were generally greater from 1893 to 1904 than from l904 10 1909
 The largest percentage of increase in value of products and average num- Der Of wage earners from 1S99 te 1904. 213I per cent and add l94.3 pc. 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, 492, bu. Fort Smith shows the greatest percent age Of increase in value of products. 60, due chiefly 70 the establishment ef such new industries as the manu fac+ure Of brick and tile carriages and wagon and materials, refrigerators and canning and preserving
 From 1904 to 1908 the value of the manufactured products of Fort Smith increased CO., 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 aHowed an increase of i6.7 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 215 per cent in number of wage earners.
 In Little Rock in 1909 the cotton seed oil mills, the lumber industr' 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. Tn Pine Bluff, the lumber industry ana cottonsePd oil mills; and in Ho- Springs the lumber industry and bakeries. the leading in drstries of TeXarkaaa Ark. are the manufactures of flour mill and Grist mill products and or cottonseed oi and cake, and of TeSarkana. Tex. the eooperase shops and the steam rail road repair shops.
 Hot Springs-E g. Hail. aged 30 a prosperous farmer residing neal