Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-12-07
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\ dam is being built in Oregon in con-
nection with the plans for irrigating 20,
600 acres of land. which will require
3.00oO00 feet Of lumber
Morgan county. Colorado. has eleven
irrigating canals. 30 miles in length al
together. and with a capacity of 300
100000 cubic feet Of water.
Tacoma stevedores. who believe they
made record time, loaded the ship Peru
with 124,S57 bushels Of wheat in seven
teen hours, an average of 1914 bushels
an boar.
In England over 900 900 workers ex-
perienced decrease in wages during the
last fiscal year. In - per cent of the
cases wage changes were effected by ar-
biration.
Twelve million six hundred thousand
is the estimate Of the number oe the
famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes shipped
from the ffockv Ford district in Colo
ra,Io this season. Seven hundred cars
were sent out. as against 592 carloads
the previous year.
The production Of the Cripple Greek
district, Colorado's famous mining camp.
for September, 1901 amounted TO 81
VII NM VIII q A2tNH lbAtA - va ftrfsBafB,'
600 toms The average value of the ore
shipped during the month was SIS per
ton "A gain Of S4 over the August output.
Recent advertisements in Denver, and
cher Western papers, called for %, 900
skilled men ia one hundred different
trades, applicants 70 agree to work in
open shops. This is understood to be
move on the part Of the Citizens Ali
ance of Colorado in its campaign against
Uuiouism and the closed shop.
Hannah Monroe, president of the
Washwomcn's Union Of Richmond, Va.
has issued an address 10 her sisters of
the tub and washboard throughout the
South. She urges washwomen to organ
ize against their" oppressors.' the
heather Chinee." She SAYS the male
Chinoman, instead of doing mems work.
are driving t!!.1 i-oncst aud poorly paiu
colored women from their natural calling
of laSndry work" Hannah Monroe, it is
said. was born n slave. She threatens
to become the Carrie Nation of the wash
women's movement and begin a series
of raids against the offending Cinnamon.
Available figures go TO show that In
the twenty years between 1850 and 1900
there were %, 1913 strikes. which cost the
country in wages, expense and direct loss
of trade nearly S40O.O00,OOO In the same
time there were a little over 900 lock.
outs, costing nearly Sl00.0000 900. These
three items of loss by no means represent
its full extent Ii would be fair COM
putation to estimate an equal sum lost
directly and indirectly by the general
public because of the strikes. They
would exhibit a total of 81. OO0. 900, 600
for the twenty years. and would undoubt-
cdy be within, instead Of beyond, the
mark.
Dr. Max Nitzsche, writing in the
preussische Jahrbucher says that Euro
pean industry has nothing to fear from
japanese competition. Ii takes three
Japanese TO do the work of one English
man. III the cotton mills. for instance.
the latter looks after 500 spindles, while
the smartest japanese can only look after
about 800. They are not so clever, eli her;
are butter fingered" and break four
times as many threads as the English
man, taking five times as long to tie
them up again. In Massachusetts, one
girl attends to six looms. In Lancashire
TO four aud in Japan TO one This slow
ness appears not only in machine work,
but also in ordinary earthworks. building,
mining and so on. The japanese hates
| continuous work. and likes to stop and
chat and sing and sip tea and smoke
| as interludes in his business Unless he
| can do this and have his way he viii
quit, carirg little whether he works ar
cot