Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-08-23
ARKANSAS PEOPLE
Are INDUSTRIOUS
More Than Half the Popula-
tlon Engaged in Gainful
Occupations
WHAT THEY'RE DOING
Nearly Half Million Engaged in Farm.
ing-Lumber Business Engages
20,O00-12,0OO are Retailers.
Lawyers Number 1,34S.

Washington, Aug. 23.-Accordlng tt
the report on occupations recent!
ly issued by Director William J. Har
ris of the bureau of the census, de
partment OF commerce, theer were
62.403 persons 10 years of age ant
over in Arkansas in 1910 engaged II
gainful occupations. The gainfu
workers thus formed Az per cen
of tAe total population Of the state
Q,574,449) and 1913 per cent OF the
population 10 years of age aid oVel
1,134,OS7). In 1900 the 4S3,79o gain
full workers Of the state formed 8
per cent of the total population ant
y per cent of the population 10 years
of age and over.
The male gainful workers in 1917
numbered 510,410, or S6.S per cent o
all males 10 years Of age and over
as compcred with 407,942, or S4.2 pei
cent in 1900 The female gaiafu
workers in 1910 numbered 1G1 1893. OF
291 per cent of all females 10 year:
OF age and over, as compared witt
1853, or 11.3 per cent, in 1900.
Distribution Of Workers.
The 672403 gainful workers il
1910 were distributed among th'
main branches OF occupations as FOL
lows: Agriculture, forestry and an
imal husbandry, Alb, 1853, or 70.4 pc
cent; extraction of minerals, 1882, O
o. per cent; manufacturing and me
ehancila industries. 66,661, Or SO pc
cent; transportation, 24,624, or ).
per cent: trade, 1882, or Al pc
cent; public service, BIAS, or O6 pc
cent; professional service, l1.34S, o
90 per cent; domestic and persona
service. 42,173, Or 6.3 per cent; ant
clerical occupations, SPIT, or ID pc
cent.
Sex Of Workers.
or the gainful workers in 1910, 80
40, Or 7o.9 per cent, were males an
161 1893. or PAL per cent, females. II
agriculture, forestry, and ANNA
husbandry. the males numbered 1858,
49,. or "a s per cent, and the females
114.371. or PAP per cent. PRACTICAL,
all-4,SS9. or 99.9 per cent-of tn
persons enga ged in the extraction o
minerals were males. In manufac
turing and mechanical industries, 81
1913, or 92.3 per cent, of the workers
were males and 5,12S, or ~ per cent
females. Males constituted 96.S pei
cent of the 24,624 per sons engaged
in transportation. ola per cent O.
the 1892 persons engaged in trade
md 94.2 per cent of the 3,74S persons
engaged in public service. In profes
sional service 11.193, or 64.5 per cent
of the workers were males and 6,155
or 355 per cent, females, large
proportion of the females being
school teachers. Domestic and per
sonal service, was the only large
field of occupations in which thu
females outnumbered the males. Here
females numbered 30,650, or 72.7 pei
cent. and males only 1888, or o.?
per cent of the workers. OF the per-
sons pursuing clerical occupations
6,227, or 1873 per cent. were males
and 1890, or 24.2 per cent, females
Color or Race of Race Of Workers
OF the 510.41O Painfully occupied
males in 1910, 339.54O were native
whites of native parentage, 13,2oF
native whites of foreign or mixed par
entage, $3.50 foreign born whites
14S.OSS negroes, and 17S other color
ed. The proportion which the gain
fully occupied males formed of all
the males 10 years of age and over
in each principal class of the popu-
latio2 was: For native whites OF
native parentage, S5.7 per cent; for
native whites of foreign Or mixed
parentage. S4.5 per cent; for foreign
born whites. 907 per cent; and for
negr es, 1913 per cent. (,
OF the 161,993 gainfully occupied
females in 1910, 64,745 were native
whites of native parentage, $500
native whites of foreign or mixed
parentage, 1,121 foreign-born whites
92,24S negroes. and 70 other colored
The proportion which the gainfully
occupied females formed of all the
females 10 years and over in each
principal class of the population was:
For native whites of native parent
age, III per cent; for native whites
of foreign or mixed parentage, 20.9
per cent; for foreign-born whites. 1874
per cent; and for negroes, $40 per
cent.
Age Of Workers. !.
The gainfully occupied males in
1910 were distributed according to
age periods as follows: 10 to II
years of age, 25,597; IA to Is years
24,512; 16 to 20 years; 1926: 81 tc
A years, and age unknown, 257,202;
and As years and over, 120.S03. The
proportion which the gainfully occu-
pied males formed of all males in
each age period was: For those II
to 10 years of age, 1872 per cent; fol
those IA to Is years of age, $50 pei
cent: for those Is to 20 years of age
$3.50 per cent; for those 81 to A years
of age, 97.9 per cent-that is, all bu
3 men in every 100 had gainful occu
jations; and for those As years of age
and over, 90 per cent.
The gainfully occupied females II