The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-09-28
law was enacted the total sum OF $780,.
eG0.O6 has been appropriated.

society receives liberal annual appro-
priations from the state. and $4,000 is
distributed annually for the encouie
agement of county fairs, where the
products of the farm are exhibited and
premiums given for the best specimens.
The Dairy Interests.
1t is well known fact that Mime
sofa is to-day one of the leading dairy
states in the union. The report of the
dairy and food commissioner to the leg
aslature of 1899 gave the total number
of creameries in the state on Oct. 1,
1898, as 664. That number has, no
Moubt, been greatly increased since that
time These creameries are found in
nearly every county, and Minnesota
creamery butter has taken first prizes
In open competition with the world.
The same report estimates that there
were 100 cheese factories in the state,
and that over $1,000 farmers are deliv-
ering or selling milk to these creamer-
les and cheese factories. Tt is estimated
that about 100000 pounds of butter are
made every working day of the year,
(which makes total of nearly 100000 900
pounds of butter annually. Figuring
the value at 20 cents per pound, which
Is certainly low for the creamery but
ter of our state, it gives the value of
the butter manufactured in our cream
cries in one year at the enormous sum
Of $50 100000. This is entirely separate
and distinct from the value of the
products of the cheese factories.
BY chapter 149, G.. L. 1885, state
dairy and food commission was estab-
aished, with an appropriation of $4,000
b year. The scope of the department
has been increased by subsequent legis-
latures, and it now has $4,000 year
at it's disposal. 1t is fair to assume
that the phenomenal growth of the
dairy interests of our state and the
enormous wealth that is annually pro-
duced is in a large measure due to the
admirable laws passed for the protec-
ton of the products of the farm and
4he creameries from the spurious imi-
cations that have been thrown upon
the markets in the form of oleomar-
Earine, butterine, etc. Our stringent
laws against the sale of adulterated
butter has made it almost an impossi-
bbility to find market for it in our
state. The value of the butter and
cheese produced in Minnesota is second
only to the value of the wheat crop.
Tree BouDties.
An illustration of the practical way
In which Republican legislatures have
helped the people of Minnesota is found
In the aid that has been extended since
ASA in the form of bounty for tree
planting. In the prairie counties.
swhere timber is only found growing
naturally on the river bottoms, the
value of a grove of trees is highly APP
preciated, both as fuel and as a wind
break, while it adds much beauty to the
country. The legislature of 1871 passed
an act giving a. bounty of 50 per acre
and 50 for each half mile of trees
planted along highway; in 1873 the
movement for tree planting was given
D wider range by making fixed an
nual appropriation of $4,000, which has
been expended each year since Tat
time, and under an amended law in
1881 the bounty was fixed at So per
acre and 50 for each half mile of high
EWay. and the number of years for
(which the bounty could be claimed was
reduced from ten years to six years
During the twenty nine years that this
tree planting bounty has been paid the
Whole face of the country in some of
khe southwestern and northern prairie
counties has been changed and beautf-
He'd, and it is safe to estimate that
from 10000 to $4,000 acres of growing.
thrifty trees owe their existence to this
beneficial law.
Nhe Republican Party Friendly to
Labor.
The Republican party of Minnesota is
now and always has been friendly dis
posed to the labor interests.
Here is a plank from the Minnesota
Republican platform which squarely
outlines the position of the party on
the labor question: 'In view of this
record and the conditions now existing.
brought about by Republican legisIa-
tion, our party appeals with confidence
TO the laboring man and pledges itself
anew to protect and encourage labor
interests in all their legitimate efforts.
and that it will use every effort To
secure the passage of legislation pro-
Nfding that on all public works au-
thorized by the state eight hours shall
he deemed and taken to be a legal
working day."
AT the behest of organized labor a
bureau of labor was established in 1897
and the cause of labor has been greatly
benefited thereby. The first appropria
ton for the bureau was only $4,000, and
now $4,000 is appropriated annually for
the maintenance of the department.
and every workshop or factory of any
magnitude in the state is inspected reg
ularly by representative of the
bureau. Since its organization in 1887
S11S,S29.S2 has been expended by this
department.
AS far back as 1866 we find laws for
the protection of employees in factories
and workshops. Many measures highly
beneficial to the workingman grace our
statute books. Chapter 9, Laws of 1889.
protects labor unions in the use of
labels devices and trade marks.
Nhanks to the legislature of 1893. the
motormen and conductors on the street
car lines are protected from the in
clemency of the weather. (See chapter
%, Laws of 1897 Chapter $50. Laws of
1s95 provides for board of arbitration
and Cancellation to adjust differences
that might arise between employer and
employees. An act to prohibit the prac-
fice of blacklisting and the coercing
and influencing of employees by their
employers (chapter ia, Laws of 1880
Is certainly just and fneritorious
measure. Chapter 173, Laws of 1895.
defines the duties of masters and en-
ployers and provides that they shall
exercise due care and di1ioanoo q, -