The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-12-01
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A dam is being built in Oregon in con-
nection with the plans for irrigating 90
600 acres of land, which will require
100000 feet of lumber.
Morgan county, Colorado, has eleven
irrigating canals, 900 miles in length al
together, and with a capacity of $780,
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 1874 bushels
an hour.
In England over 10000 workers ex-
perienced a decrease in wages during the
last fiscal year. In IS per cent of the
cases wage changes were effected by ar
bitration.
Twelve million six hundred thousand
Is the estimate of the number of the
famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes shipped
from the Rocky Ford district in Colo
RADIO 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, 1904, amounted to ST.
O41 900, with gross tonnage of 60, $780,
coo tons. The average value of the ore
shipped during the month was S2S per
ton, gain of 81 over the August output
Recent advertisements in Denver, and
other Western papers, called for $4,000
skilled men in one hundred different
trades, applicants to 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
unionism and the closed shop.
Hannah Monroe, president of the
Washwomen's Union of Richmond. Va.
has issued an address to her sisters of
the tub and washboard throughout the
South. She urges washwomen to organ
ize against their oppressors," the
'sheathen Chinee." She says the male
Chinaman. instead of ''doing mems work,
are driving the honest and poorly paid
colored women from their natural calling
of laundry work." Hannah Monroe. it is
said, was born a slave. She threatens
to become the Carrie Nation of the wash
women's movement and begin series
of raids against the offending Cinnamon.
Available figures go to show that in
the twenty years between 1880 and 1900
there were %, 1893 strikes, which cost the
country In wages, expense and direct loss
of trade nearly $500, 0O0, 900. In the same
time there were q little over 1000 lock-
outs, costing nearly 100000, 600 These
three items of loss by no means represent
| its full extent. 1t would be fair COM
putntion to estimate an equal sum lost
directly and indirectly by the general
public because of the strikes. They
would exhibit a total of 81, ZOO, OcO 900
! for the twenty years. and would undoubt-
eddy 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. 1t takes three
/ Japanese to do the work of one English
| man. In the cotton mills, for instance.
the latter looks after 800 spindles. while
| the smartest Japanese can only look after
| about 300. They are not so clever. either.
| are 'sbutter 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 and in Japan to one. This slow-
ness appears not only in machine work.
but also in ordinary earthworks. bulidinR.
mining and 50 on. The Japanese hate
continuous work, and likes to stop and
chat and sing and sip tea and snoke
| a. inferludes In his business. Unlera be
| can DO this and have his way he Vim
quit caring little whether he works or