Report of the Bureau of Labor and Printing for Pitt County

This letter is about a fence line dispute with an neighbor. The letterhead reflects Wilbur F. Askew's position as captain of the steamer S. A. McCALL owned by the Jamesville and Washington Rail Road Company. W. F. Askew left the BERTIE in October 1888 to take charge of the S. A. McCALL. He had navigated on the Cashie River for seventeen years before switching to the S. A. McCALL. (Windsor Public Ledger, 3 October 1888.)

Text from Report

Fourteenth Annual Report

of the

BUREAU OF LABOR AND PRINTING

of the

State of North Carolina
for the Year

1900

B. R. Lacy, Commissioner.

W.E. Faison, Asst. Commissioner.

Raleigh:

Edwards & Broughton, and E. M. Uzzell, State Printers.

Presses of Edwards & Broughton.

1901

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS

CONDITIONS OF FARMERS

Average Table No. 1--Showing Conditions of Farm Lands by Counties.
p.4 Pitt County

Has Land Increased or Decreased in Value?	If so, What Per Cent?	Cause of Increase or Decrease	Fertility of Land Maintained?	Tendency to Have Larger or Smaller Farms?
No	---	---	Yes	smaller

Average Table No. 2--Showing Condition of Farm Labor.
p. 6 Pitt County

Have Farmers Improved in TheirMode of Living?	Has Cost of Living Increased?	Is Negro Labor Reliable?	Is Labor Abundant or Scarce?	Cause of Abundance or Scarcity?	Is Employment Regular
Yes	Yes	No	Scarce	won’t work	yes

Average Table No. 3--Showing Wages Paid Farm Labor.
p. 8 Pitt County

Highest Wages Paid Men?	Lowest Wages Paid Men?	Highest Wages Paid Women?	Lowest Wages Paid Women?	Wages Paid Children?	Have Wages Increased or Decreased?
9.50	7.38	6.00	4.83	3.58	No

Average Table No. 4--Showing Cost to Produce Crops.
p. 10 Pitt County

Cost to Produce--
500-lb. Bale of Cotton?	Bushel Wheat?	Bushel Corn?	Bushel Oats?	100 Pounds Tobacco?
25.00	.55	.28	.28	6.00

Average Table No. 5--Showing Market Price of Crops.
p. 12 Pitt County

* Present Market Price--
Cotton?	Wheat?	Corn?	Oats?	Tobacco?
9 1/6	.90	.63	.43	7.20

* Period between June 15^th and October 1^st.

Average Table No. 6--Showing Educational, Moral and Financial Condition.
p.14 Pitt County

Educational Condition of WorkingPeople?	Is It Improving?	Moral Condition of Working People?	Is It Improving?	Financial Condition of WorkingPeople?	Is It Improving?
Fair	Yes	Fair	No	Bad	No

MISCELLANEOUS FACTORIES
Tables 1--6
List of Miscellaneous Factories, Financial and SocialCondition of Employees.

Table No. 1 --List of Miscellaneous Factories, ShowingPost office, Capital Stock, Etc.
pp. 140-141 Pitt County

Post-office	Name of Factory	Incorporated	Capital Stock	Name of President or Owner	Power	Number Horse Power
Winterville	Hunsucker Carriage Co	---	---	R. H. Hunsucker	---	---
Ayden	Ayden Lumber Co	---	25,000	G. J. Cherry	Steam	325

NEWSPAPERS IN THE STATE

Table No. 1 –Showing List of Newspapers in North Carolina.
pp. 214-215 Pitt County

>Town	Name of Paper	Name of Editor	Proprietor
>Ayden	Free-Will Baptist	Rev. E. T. Phillips	---
Greenville	King’s Weekly	H. T. King	---
Greenville	Eastern Reflector	D. J. Whichard	---
Greenville	Eastern Reflector	D. J. Whichard	---

Table No. 2. – Showing Day of Publication, Number Employes[sic], Class of Paper, Etc.
pp. 226-227

How Published?	Day of Publication?	All Home Print?	Typesetting Machines?	Number of Employes?	Class of Paper.	When Established?	Subscribtion Price?
Weekly	Wednesday	Yes	No	3	Free-Will Baptist	1879	1.00
Semi-weekly	Tuesday—Friday	Yes	No	4	Democratic	1894	.25
Daily	---	Yes	No	7	Democratic	1894	3.00
Semi-weekly	Tuesday—Friday	Yes	No	---	Democratic	1882	1.00

Report of the Bureau of Labor and Printing for Pitt County, 1900