Report of the Department 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

Twenty-Fourth Annual Report

of the

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND PRINTING

of the

State of North Carolina

1910

M. L. Shipman, Commissioner

GEO. B. Justice, Asst. Commissioner

Raleigh:

Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., State Printers and Binders

1910

CONDITION OF FARMERS

Average Table No. 1--Showing Condition Farm Land andLabor, by Counties
p. 16 Pitt County

Value of Land Increased or Decreased?	Fertility of Land Maintained?	Tendency to Larger or Smaller Farms?	Labor Plentiful or Scarce?	Negro Labor Reliable?	Employment Regular?	Increase in Cost of Living?
increased	yes	smaller	scarce	no	yes	yes

Average Table No. 2.-- Showing Wages , FinancialCondition, Etc.
p. 19 Pitt County

Tendency Toward Diversification of Crops?	Improvement in Method of Cultivation of Crops?	Wages					Financial Condition of Working People.	Improving?
Tendency Toward Diversification of Crops?	Improvement in Method of Cultivation of Crops?	HighestPaid Men	Lowest Paid Men	Highest Paid Women	Lowest Paid Women	Children	Financial Condition of Working People.	Improving?
yes	yes	$24.44	$13.52	$14.56	$8.06	$9.40	fair	yes

Average Table No. 3--Showing Cost of Production.
p. 21 Pitt County

Wages Increased or Decreased?	Cost of Produce--
Wages Increased or Decreased?	500-Pound Bale Cotton	Bushel Wheat	Bushel Corn	Bushel Oats	100 Pound Tobacco
no	30.60	.42	.38	.25	7.10

Average Table No. 4--Showing Road, Educational and Religious Conditions.
p. 24 Pitt County

Condition of Roads	Improving?	Educational Condition	Improving?	Religious and Moral Condition	Improving?	Favor Road Improvement by Taxation?
fair	yes	fair	yes	fair	yes	yes

MISCELLANEOUS FACTORIES

Table No. 1--Factories by Counties, President , Secretary,Articles Manufactured, etc.
pp. 86-87 Pitt County

Post Office	Factory	President	Secretary or Treasurer	Articles Manufactured	Capital Stock	Year Incorporated or CommencedBusiness	Estimated Value of Plant
Ayden	Ayden Lumber Co.	G.J. Cherry	D. Gibb	Pine, cypress, oak, gum lumber,etc.	$15,600	1900	$50,000
Ayden	J. R. Smith Co.’s Mill	J. R. Smith	H. C. Ormond	Lumber, trucks, etc.; grind andgin; electric current	25,000	1907	10,000
Farmville	Farmville Oil and Fert. Co.	R. L. Davis	J. R. Morgan	Fertilizers, cotton-seed products	---	1910	---
Greenville	Cabinet Veneer Co.	F. G. Perkins	W. J. Rickey	Veneer and panels	73,300	1909	50,000
Greenville	Flanagan Buggy Co.	E. G. Flanagan	W. E. Hooker	Buggies and carriages	15,000	1904	15,000
Greenville	Greenville Lumber and Veneer Co.	A.B. Miner	Geo. H. Cole	Lumber, box shooks, truck barrelsand baskets	19,500	1903	20,000
Pactolus	Fleming, R.R.	R.R. Fleming, Owner.	---	Lumber and shingles	20,000	1900	8,000
Winterville	Cox, A. G., Mfg. Co.	A. G. Cox	R.H. Hunsucker	Cotton planters, guano sowers,carts, wagons, buggies, etc.	30,000	1899	13,000

NEWSPAPERS

Table No. 1–Showing List of Newspapers in North Carolina
p. 252 Pitt County

Town	Name of Paper	How published	Editor	Proprietor
Ayden	Freewill Baptist	Weekly	E. T. Phillips	Freewill Baptist Publishing Co.
Greenville	Daily Reflector	(e) daily	D. J. Whichard	The Reflector Co.
Greenville	Carolina Home and Farm and theEastern Reflector.	Weekly	D. J. Whichard	The Reflector Co.

Report of the Department of Labor and Printing for Pitt County, 1910