The wageworker., 1905-11-24
THE CARPENTERS.
A Big Bunch Of News From LincoIn's
Largest Union.

Largest Union.
Six candidates initiated last week,
and four applications pending.
Bro. Fredericks, who resides at
1920 T street, is very ill with typhoid
fever. A number of the boys have
taken turns sitting up with him. Be-
gining with the present week nurse
has been hired by the A. o. U. W.,
of which order the brother is mem
ber.
made a most encouraging report of
the activity of that body.
Remember that beginning with the
new year the dues of beneficial mem
bers are IS cents per month and
semi-beneficial members As cents.
Bro. Kent has returned from his
trip to Colorado and Wyoming. He
gave a very interesting talk of the
future possibilities OF that country.
Work has already commenced on the
new road, the Denver, Yellowstone &
Pacific, which will run from Denver
to Seattle, taking in Fort Collins, En-
campment, Saratoga, Lander, Yellow
stone park, Boise City, etc. Along
this route are vast deposits of anthra-
cite,- semi-anthracite and bituminous
coal, oil, copper, gold, silver gypsum,
marble, iron, stone, asphaltum, for
ests of virgin timber and thousands
of acres of land that only requires
irrigation to make it yield equal to
any soil in the country. Lander is
undoubtedly going to be the capitol of
Wyoming. Besides this new road,
the Burlington and Northwestern are
both aiming for Lander. Next June
the Shosone or Wind river reserva-
ton is to be thrown open to settle
ment, and is connection with this land
the government is already at work on
a system of irrigation. No country in
the United States offers greater pos
sibilities in the future for all classes
of settlers than Wyoming. Irrigation
has long past the experimental stage.
Land around Greeley and Fort Col
lins, Colo, that few years ago was
considered worthless, to day is selling
at 5000 per acre and proves an eX-
cellent investment at those figures.
1t was a surprise to learn that the
value last year of COlOradO's agri-
cultural products was greater than
the value of her mineral products.
Bro. Kent told of the havoc wrought
by the Citizens Alliance and Mine
Owners Association in driving out
the miners; how in Denver, Pueblo,
Telleride and Cripple Creek. Just
prior to the lockout it was almost i'm
possible to rent house; now empty
houses are plenty. The building busi-
ness is fiat. The business men are
realizing that the reign of Peabody
and Sherman Bell was very costly to
Colorado, for when they drove out the
we'll paid American miner, they drove
away the best customer of the pro-
ducts they had to sell. Despite Colo
radios great wealth in mine and field
it will take years for her to regain
her old time business prosperity. A
large part of the mine owners wealth
is spent outside of Colorado, but the
miner spends his money at home, it
goes at once in circulation and the
prosperity of the clothier, the gro
Ger. the baker, ETC., and the world
of business as seen upon our streets
is guaged unerringly by the wages of
the worker. Bro. Kent visited the
headquarters of the carpenters in
Denver and found them OCCUPYING quar-
ters of their own at Twelfth and
Stout streets. They had bought a
residence and lot. They had torn
out the interior partitions and added
on four rooms in front, bringing the
front of the building to the sidewalk
line. They had put in an ornamental
front, something on the store style
and had made a hall of the interior of
the old residence. Why not the car
penters do the same thing in Lincoln.
Let them go to work and get busy.
The trustees were ordered to in
vestigate and find out how many of
our members had badges of their own,
and if it would be feasible to change
the numbers on such badges? And
further to find out the cost of badges
to all members not provided for and
if it would be expedient for the un-
ion to provide badges for all the men,
bers. The trustees were to make
such recommendation to the union
as to them seemed best.