The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-06-05
LOCAL b NEWS.

LOCAL LLAiOI NENS.
Brooklyn plumbers and gas filters won
eight hours.
Six thousand tailors in London are
outson o strike.
Numbers OF carpenters are now busy
putting up screens.
Mrs. Hopkins is building a house on
her ranch below town.
Rev. Ware has built additional stable
room to the Indian School barns.
City officials in Denver favor the m
ployment OF Union men ON city work.
A. H. Smith will soon commence work
on a commodious residence for William
Scott.
Oyer one million children are employed
in the factories and mines OF the United
States.
X. OF L. assemblies are being organ
lied more rapidly than eyer throughout
the south.
The rancllers Of Rapid Valley have
greatly enlarged and improved the irrl-
eating bitches.
If every rancher would keep as good
COWS as Joe Jolly, there would be less
complaint OF Improbable stock raising.
The Singer manufacturing company
hayc advanced the wages OF a part of
their employees on an average OF two
dollars per week.
The brick han Hers union, of New
York, will Withdraw from the American
Federation OF Labor and unite with the
Knights OF Labor.
Boston stone masons work nine hours,
eight on Saturday, with iorty-two cents
an hour, one half extra pay for over
work and double pay for work on Sun
day and legal holidays. .
The Cincinnati convention denounced
in unmcasured terms the action OF the
Worlds Fair directors in refusing to
grant the request OF the labor represen-
tatives for a minimum wage scale.
Farm help in the Black Hills IS amply
paid, wages ranging from twenty to
thirty dollars per month with board,
and the w~orklnsmen ;,rc generally con,
tented. Their hours OF labor are much
less than those engaged in farm labor in
the older states.
Those dreaming Of a sudden change in
our social system, will, in I'LL probability
be disappointed. Let us remember thai
IL thorough change for the better car
only be brought about when the masses
have been enlightened and educated up
on the basis OF economic nationality
k. OF l.. Journal.
Anyone travelling around the county
will readily observe the difference be
tween profitable and Improbable farm
ing. While the crop outlook in genera
is good, there arc many fields of grain
that look thin, weak and backward
owing to very poor or Indifferent prepar
alton OF the soil and careless seeding
The thrifty and successful farmer does
nothing by halves.
A visit to J.. NJ. Woods place las
week gave us an opportunity to SCI
tame grass growing most luXuriously
The Mayor is increasing the number o
his %irrigating bitches and improvin!
those already importation. Acarefull IN
spection Of his fields OF small grain vii
convince the most skeDtical that a.
good crops OF wheat and oats can b.
grown here as anywhere, provided TIN
proper methods are followed.
At Deadwood, J. Geddes is building j.;
livery barn 4Sx76 feet. Fink is putin,
up a residence 32x1OO feet. The B. 4
NJ. are building a five story brick pas
senger depot and Judge Mclaughlin vii
erect a $4,000 residence on William
street. The contemplated builders O
the projected hotel have bonded six lott
on thirty days time for $4,000. l
their present intentions are carried ou'
they will soon commence operations OF
a hotel to cost $125,O"O.
After seeing many market garden.
in this vicinity, we are under the impress
sion that a larger area is planted thar
is necessary. More fertilizing, bette,
cultivation and compact planting vii
require less work and give better results
The best gardens in the Hills are thos'
north OF Spearfish on the Redwatcr
where vegetables are grown for the min
ing camps. Some OF these would com
pare very favorable with many OF tho
gardens of the east from which the large
cities are supplied with vegetables.
The great corporation which has sc
long ignored the immigration laws by
importing cheap European labor under
contract to keep down American wages
are rany OF them apt to be mulct il
heavy damages. Several actions arr
now pending against the Consumers
Gas compay and the City Railroad o
Chicago in which Assistant Secretary O
the Treasury will compel the attendance
OF eleven of the men imported as wit
nesses against the companies.