Omaha daily bee., 1902-12-21
Carpenters Letter
Continued from Twelfth Page.)


lished in different parts OF Europe and later
on / believe in the United States. The
business paid right along, and similar es-
Establishments are now to be found in differ
ent parts of Switzerland operated by the
Swiss. The farmers bring their milk to
the factories and are paid so much per
quart for 1t. There seems no reason why
the business should not be proftably car
ried on in the dairy regions Of the United
States.
Switzerland makes lots of money out of
it's cheese. 1t exports something like Co.
OOO,O 900 pounds annually and its receipts
therefrom are more than 49, 900, 900. We
ourselves take about 5000, 600 pounds every
year and pay our grocers on the average
35 cents a pound for it. The same cheese
sells here for about 16 cents a pound. The
duty is only 6 cents so you can see that
our grocers are making a good round
profit.
l am surprised to find that no Neuchatel
cheese is made at Neuchatel, although
Neuchatel cheese is known the world over.
Neuchatel is a town Of 20, 900 people, which
is more noted for watch making than any
thing else. 1t has a large house industry
and a number of factories and uses many
American watch cases to inclose Swiss
movements The only cheese of account
that is exported from Switzerland is the
large round cheese which we know as
Schweitzerkase and of which we eat almost
81, 900, 900 worth every year.
Switzerland has been called the play
ground for Europe, but it is the workshop
of the Swiss. The tourist business, big as
it is, is a bagatelle in comparison with
the other industries. Nearly every own
and city is a beehive of work. l have
written Of Zurich as one of the most pros
porous factory towns of the continent.
Geneva has only 100, 900 people, but it is
doing the business Of tens of millions and
all the country around huns. There are
watch factories, music works and crock
cry establishments here which make guam
titles of goods for export and also es-
adjustments turning out jewelry and
enamel work.
In Basel, a city Of the same size as
Geneva, on the other side of Switzerland,
the industries are equally great. Ribbons
are made there on looms imported from
America, and there are factories of vari-
Gus kinds.
One of the queerest industrial centers is
Chaux-de-Fonds in the Jura mountains,
Here the finest of Swiss watches are made
and that largely by hand. The town has O
pOpuldllOH Oh CE,UUU, ana udll Ol It's pSOplt
are employed in making watches and watch
The work is much divided
each man making one kind Of wheel OF
part of a movement. Those who prepare
the simplest pieces may get as much as
so cents a day, while the finer workmer
will receive 81 or more. The town turns
out something like 300, 900 watches every
year, an output worth more than $1,000, 900
1t is in Geneva that most of the enamel
ing Of watches is done, many Of our fnel
cases being sent there from the United
States to be finished. The Geneva watches
are also noted for their beautiful construc
tion. They are spoken of as jewels as wei
as timekeepers. Most Of the watches ar,
OF the cheaper varieties, such as silver an
nickel-about 1000 900 Of each being sen
away every year. We annually impor
something like 13, 1000 nickel, 5000 silve
and 1000 gold watches from Switzerland
and in addition more than $4,000 watc'
movements.
We are accustomed to think of Switzer
land as an old country. So 1t is. 1t wa
a thriving place in the days Of the Ro
mans, even then having its cities and vii
lagos. Later on the barbarians swept owe
It and 1t is from them hat come the Swis
people of today. Many Of the cities her
were good business places in the middl
ages. This was the case with Berne an