The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-08-26
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Cond ition Of Things inthe I
4 Copper Country as seen
BY a labor World
Reprase ntative.
&c.,
n will be interesting to your readers to
know somethahg about the copper coun-
= tryS and a psetty good idea may be
obtained df what is going on here by
the following CONDENSATION between Smith
and Brown: ssI
s Brown was a small merchant and he
was crowded OUT Ssof business by. a de-
.Tartment store In his town: He has card
lps he copper COUNT that every ody5 Is
rolling in wealth up In norf hern Michigan,
and he, is up here TO get Into business agar II.
He, has been looking around for q month.
sa Smith Ifs Ia new conner, just came in
yesterday. He Is also In search Of al bus
iness opening, has heard Of this region and
that they know nothing ofshard times here.
Is full of exp alton and hope. Bro =
has waded lin the dust and mud 81
the streets 8. last four weeks, has
slept ON q straw cot ten in a room, foIn ii
no opening that suit him. and lis about
70 return ito his home. The conversation
between the two y inter testing:
s .ssYo,A have been here a month, /
llnd erstand (, ''s says ssmith to Brown.
81 Brown: Yes been over at iHa a.
5cock,up to Red. ana Ca 1,hnet, ann
down the copper eountr yS pretty generally !,
Smith: What dns you think OF ft ~
Good counts iabor ii,g men,
that Is everybody an gel, work!
81 B. What do they pay rnineirs?',
IL s. Two liars on the surface, two ai
" in
n 3. 5:'yvv It do they pay me y
IS. Eets four dollars az nv
carpenters two dollars and ialf, labor-
eTsg on the stree ollars a day.
g. 81 'retty good Dri ce 49,
81 very good when you CON
slider priceSo board which iss a1ye dollars
e Week, Will asshing ana incidesnt!iss
N7tllStbring It up tel seven dollars a week
the best can Az.
Il 8 Se So aaucl a an object Tor
'lebQrfng men to cos q here after al
E: IT should 4 say NOT. Ter t,aatit NJ
'olri cost coming here ana the ex pe,is5e
ofEliving the proflt s are Tess than thev -
IN MOST other ties s 5s
What has ma II erase about
the copper count
ass The Advance In the spriceso copper
from seven ceafts :pou1 sto aseyeH ten
That used reW
81 ana of several q Il
mines has faat demand II
manual ia issa
4 work Dyed IA
che mines. 5sS5s2si
Where are thss a new men sfrom 4,
S. al 81. EUROPE They
Include Poles Hum tsiwedes Tor
md ltal ians:.
lsHf don 6 they employ the surplus
se
s lass 81 labor IL gen
leIally a1nft ted for work. Too
5intellige and noe lstomed4 Il to- FIJI,
hard manual emp, Gym emit They preferssto
engage the igneran hard working, men men
of the mining regions OF Europe, who q 10
not speak lE ;; sh,sass class IS much
.l t Hamlet make labor
I}#s How Sdod they, set the 80 re-
3 2: men alrea adv here, knowing how
paid their friends are IN Europe
are 81 eadfl writing and senaing tao,nay
for hem to come into this region. The
the OF eat numbers az
in1mig ants, to such IA, extent. that i,1ey
have crowded every hotel and boarding
house fun and The "a o,pbles To- now-a-days
to find place to- slee ,'
sss. Where this going to end ri
n. B. s. No telling, ~ have Just received a
detailing the particulaaars OF form
ing "a liquid power y company whtca
promises to send steam, gasoline, COM
pressed air and electric out IN the back
yard along with The old stage coach.
Think OF Il lot Sof old 4 dynamoss piled up
on the vacant lots as 40 much junk, ana
people wondering that there could ever
have been such q craze about electrical
Do you think air IS ~
ing to siipercsde
iiB. or the transmission OF intelii-
5gence,s Perhaps not: But FOR power pplrron-
ably The late great demand for copper
has come from general Il Introduction OF
electricity as . power In *he propulsion of
5street5cars and the great smber Of indus
tries feduir ing power which can use cleo
tricity.' @lk p s5
s 8. AZ ~ going 10 be the result OF this
incoming liquid Air power on copper
stock? q,
3. 1.-THE bottom would drop out. st
would seem. Yet the demand may con-
3tinue SO great for copper in the use %
telephones and telegraphs as to keep the
price up No certainty Wen see. go
s.. What local improvements are going
on here in Hougfton 2? 2! 81
B. Several large business blocks are n
process Of construct ion, s. seventy live
Thousand dollar hotel Is going
up, and an electric street rails
road connecting al these towns
On the copper range Is now being sur-
veyed. 15s s:
s. who builds this new street rail-
way??''
B. In conversation with Mayo,
Croze of this place we learn that outside
capital carries forward this enterprise
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