Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-10-01
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Minneapolis health officers have con-
fscated a large quantity of milk from
local dealers, claiming it was not in fit
condition for food.
La Crosse Wis, business men have
subscribed $500 to aid the national rivers
and harbors congress in its campaign for
the improvement of inland waters.
Fargo business men are figuring on
building C. trolley line from Fargo to Dill
manth. a new suburb created by the
Northern Pacific railroad for shops and
yards.
Montana mine operators and workers
are holding a joint convention in Helena
to adjust the wage scale for the ensuing
year The operators desire to make
cut in wages, but this the miners will re-
sist.
The receivers of the Pittsburgh
burn company will keep the mills going.
Pillsbury GAP mill is running on full time
and "B" mill will start in a few days.
The court has authorized the payment of
employees.
A fight for better railroad rates has
been opened by North Dakota wholesalers
and jobbers, and at the request of the
commercial clubs of Fargo and elsewhere.
North Dakotans allege discrimination by
railroads in favor of Twin City jobbers
and wholesalers, and insist on being given
a square deal.
A conference dealing with mining con-
ditions existing in the United States and
the great number of fatalities resulting
from mine accidents. is being held in
Pittsburg Victor Watteyne, chief of the
Belgian department of mines, is confer
ring with Charles Palm of the United
States geological survey, and J. w. Paul,
chief of the department of mines of West
Virginia.
At Sedalia, No, six hundred employees
of the Missouri Pacific shops who have
been working on part time since the be-
ginning of the financial stringency will
resume on full time.
E. E. Becker, one of the best known
civil and construction engineers in the
United States, dropped dead at the West
Tunnel camp of the St. Paul pass, near
Taft. Mont, aged % years. Under the
direction of Mr.. Becker, the Pacific ex-
tension of the Great Northern railroad
was constructed He was at one time
chief engineer for the Montana Central.
According to the statement of one Of
the prominent coal men who is heavily
interested in Wyoming mines, there will
be a great suspension of work on all
Wyoming coal mines shortly after the
first of the month. Trouble between mine
owners and miners will bring on a strike
A company has been organized at La
mont, Mich, to make pearl buttons. 1t
has been incorporated under the name
of the Wolverine Pearl Button Company.
Nearly 100 men are engaged in fishing for
clans along Grand river, between Lamont
and Grand Haven, and the industry has
become an important one. Thousands OF
dollars worth Of clamg are now taken an
nualIy from the bottom of the stream.
The Lancashire. England, Federation
of Cotton Spinners has decided to reduce
the wages of operatives > per cent. Ii
the men decline to accept the reduction
they will be locked out for a month. No
tice to this effect will at once be given to
the operatives Two hundred thousand
of them would be Immediately affected.
The North Dakota railroad commission
has heard the railroad side of the con-
troyersy between the railroads and the
North Dakota jobbers in which the job
bers claim they are Disseminated against
in the matter of rates and a decision is
expected as soon as the evidence has been
analysed by the commission.