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Report of the Department of Labor and Printing for Pitt County, 1910Text 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? | Highest
Paid
Men | Lowest Paid Men | Highest Paid
Women | Lowest Paid Women | Children | | 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-- | | 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, Educationaland
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. |
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