Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-09-16

Lansing, Mich, Sept. 13.-This Is 8
sleepy capital city OF 25,00O people
There Is plenty Of business here, bu1
1t doesn't show on the surface. There
are $50 factories Of various sorts
large and small. The automobile
works lead in extent of business done
There are two Of them, the Odds fac
tory, that makes the Oldsmobile, ant
the REQ car company, recently organ
lied by r. e. Odds who has Withdrawn
from the Odds factory, and established
a separate concern, named REQ from
his initials R. e. o. Both companies
turn out cars enough ito keep a great
many people lodging. Runabouts are
the principal output. They tell me 1t
costs about $3.50 to turn out a com.
plete machine that sells for $650-a
nice margin of profit. Odds has made
a nice fortune out of the auto business
and lives in a handsome three story
brick residence about two blocks from
our old friend E. F. Allen, now flourish
ing as dentist in Lansing.
| In addition to automobiles they
manufacture wheelbarrows, "a more
useful if not so splendid a vehicle),
show cases, cut glass, carriages,
pickles. knit goods and a hundred and
one other things. A notable thing
about Michigan towns is that none is
too small to have its factory industry
of some sort. I Imagine there are
twelve or fifteen thousand factory en-
ployes in this town, giving steady en-
ployment and certain compensation to
a great share Of its people. The same
is true in a great degree of many other
cities and Michigan stands high as
manufacturing state.
Elsie cheese-the kind that makes
the rarebit, is made at the little town
Of Elsie in Clinton county, about TWEEN
ty miles from here. Elsie is town
of 400 people, that has earned distinc-
ton through cheese-no doubt a bind
ing claim to glory. Elsie cheese has
taken first prize at all sorts of exposi-
tons and tests, and we had some last
night at the home Of Attorney Norton
at st. John. Mrs. Norton is q sister
of Mrs. Allen, and visited in Bismarck
several years ago, in company with
her sister, Mrs. LOOMS.
Lansing, like a good many capital
cities, does not look the part. There
is a splendid capital building, in the
heart of the place, that cost about a
million and a half. There is no exc
cutive residence and Governor Warner
puts in most of his time at his home
In Pennington, where he is engaged
in farming and cheese making.
Michigan does not believe in inducing
financial gout by the salaries it pays
to its state officers. The governor
gets $4,000 a year-and I was told
day or so ago 1t Is hundred Thousand
dollar job-that the nomination costs
about $4,000 and the election about
as much-all legitimate expenses, of
course, in getting before the public.
Following the governor, the secretary
OF state drops down to salary of $500
year-enough to drive Ed Porter to
the everglades Of Florida for govt and
all. The attorney general gets only
$500 and the treasurer the same.
There is not much imperial splendor
to be maintained on salaries of that
SIZE ~, ..-
Michigan is a state of varied indus
tries, and fruit raising Is source of
great wealth. Michigan apples and
peaches are renowned. Peaches SELL
here for dollar bushel nova good
deal less than the price of new pota-
toes early in the season. Michigan
Northern Spy apples are rated among
the best, and the trees here, are not
affected with the San Jose scale, a
pest that is killing the apple trees by
thousands in Northern Ohio.
San Jose scab is a microscopic para
site that has been brought in from
California, possibly in some nursery
plants. It resembles, in its effect.
rust in wheat The bark becomes
thickly covered with the parasites, and
the yigor and vitality is all Slapped
from the tree, until the leaves drop
of, the limbs die, and the tree, after
the second or third year Of infection,
stands. thing OF stripped limbs and
dead trunk. All OF which proves that
there is
Trouble, trouble everywhere
And not q drop to drink 55
Lansing is about. 50 miles from De
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