The Irish standard., 1905-04-22

gone the 81 ,O00,000-mark has already
been passed and the figures for the
month thus far are now within less
than 100000 OF the record in the esti-
mated cost Of building for which per-
mits have been issued during the
month of April. The building figures
for the first eighteen days of the pres
ent month amount to $1,1S4,O0O. In
April, 1901, the building figures ran up
to the grand total of $1,S55,0 900, which
constitutes the record for April. Last
year the cost of the building author.
lied for April was $S9S,00O, but those
figures were surpassed this year be-
fore the month is half gone. The fig
ures for the present year thus far are
about as far ahead of the same period
tor the vast year as April this year is
ahead of the corresponding month
last year. The total number of per-
mits issued up to the middle of April
last year amounted to $50, with total
cost of $1,000,165. During the present
year thus far there have been S58 per-
mits issued, with total cost of
$1,5O2,635.
Hugh H. McGee OF Minneapolis
passed the examination Tuesday
among class of thirteen young men
for the appointment as cadet at West
Point from the state at large. The
examination was held at the federal
building st. Paul, by committee con-
sisting of E. c. Stringer, DR.. Alexander
McGregor and DR.. Henry Hutchinson,
who were named for that task by Sen
ator Moses E. Clapp, who will desig.
nate the appointee. Henry j. Hawley
of Minneapolis received second high
est mark, while E. w. Krafve and w.
l.. Ainsworth, also of Minneapolis,
were respectively third and fourth The
other young men taking the examina-
ton were H. w. Batter, Royalton; c..
E. Schindeldecker, Minneapolis; Ed
ward Chestnut, H. L. Dittleimer, Mime
apolis; j. T. Guy, Manchester; B. w.
Longfellow, Minneapolis; Milton But
ler, George Schain, Browns Valley; R.
c. Brown, st. Paul. The young man is
son of Hon. ]. F. MCGEE of this city,
former judge of the District Court.
The price of meat in Minneapolis, as
in other cities, has jumped to 2k
cents in the last two weeks. The best
beef which was selling at Is cents two
weeks ago, is now selling at 171e to
20 cents, and pork has gone up in SYM
pathy. Retail butchers are paying TX
cents for meat that they paid cents
for twenty days ago. The price of the
meat usually increases in the spring
before the grass-fed cattle come on the
market, and when cattle provisions in
crease in price, but teh increase now
is earlier than usual. Apparently the
beef trust has taken stand to punish
the public. The trust controls half of
the available meat supply of the coun-
try and at great loss to itself is keep
ing it's western cattle on the ranges in
preference to putting them on the mar
ket. Consequently, the price of beef
advances, and further advances are
predicted. Under that condition people
begin to eat pork and eggs, the de-
mand increasing the prices of those
commodities. The peculiar condition
now prevails of selling ham at II cents
per pound and bacon at 1917, when
ordinarily the reverse is true. Despite
the increased price to retail butchers,
a number of such dealers declare that
they will not raise the price, but will
stand the loss personally. The indie.
pendent dealers also declare that they
will stand by the old price and fight
the trust.
For the first time in the history of
Minnesota surveyor general of logs
and lumber has done some Survey
ing" and scaling, actually, practically
and really. Fendall G. Winston, the
present incumbent of the Office, went
along the boom drive Friday of last
week, accompanied by G. A. Smith,
Frank Gehart and Benjamin F. Nelson
Of the log committee of the boom
company. The party drove to G. A.
Smiths upper mill, where Mr.. Winston
made a careful examination of the
conditions obtaining at that point, as
we'll as further down the river. The
trip was undertaken in Mr.. Smith 8
automobile, and the whole extensive
ramifications of the lumbermen in the
river near Minneapolis were inspected.
Thousands upon thousands of logs
were found ready for the saws and
the numberless crews of men getting
everything in readiness for the open
ing of the saving season. Benjamin
F. Nelson said that the new surveyor
general showed the keenest interest
in the mammoth operations along the
river, and was delighted with the pros
poets of full seasons operation of
the mills, which means so much to the
laboring element of Minneapolis. "Mr.
Winston is the first incumbent Of the
office to make the inspection" said
Mr.. Nelson, "and he did it thoroughly.
It is evident that he proposes to keep
track of things in a thorough, business
like manner during his term of office -