The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-02-11


spend more than $2OOOOO0OO year. nearly onehird as
much as the United States government. OF this
ing $156545,14s is, raised by direct taxation The
crest piles up in bonded debt
! The municipal officials and employees alone number
nore than $4,000 drawing something like s7O
1000 year in salaries
How the American heart beats high at the sight Of
greater city which only 10 years ago divided
into hundred cities, towns and villages!
Its buildings rise like cliffs. steep towering above
steep immensities Of stone brick stee-red yellow.
brown with the sunlight reflected in hundreds of
thousands of windows, and steam and smoke drifting
across the dizzy tumult of roofs AS the evening
and the lights lit, New York sparkles and flashes
in her lofty masses, all the brutalities CT modern
sonry fade shining fairy city set great
tain seems to rear itself between the two rivers.
With what wonder hope and fear one looks
such city! Yet who understands it?
1t is possible go miles in straight line without
leaving the city The streets Of New York placed
end would reach to San Francisco and several hun
dred miles out into the Pacific
IS More than $4,000 persons born in New York in
"a year. many the inhabitants of Columbus, the
capital city Of Ohio More $4,000 New Workers die
in year. enough to make three cities large as Ma
con. Georgia.
Notaeven Babylon, that persisted ere Christ was born
so wonderful-Babylon. with Its hanging gardens
resting on arches IS feet high. with sc miles Of
city walls reaching $40 feet into the air. set with $50
fair towers and pierced through hundred gates OF
brass!
those precpices of brick and stone supported by
miles Of Steel York has built many cities on top
other and the hill Of the Caesars In Rome seems
a small compared to the majestic bulk of the bust
ness palaces themselves against the sky with
populations living high above the streets that no
sound OF the roaring city reaches them.
Two hundred and eightythree years ago the whole
of Manhattan island bought by Peter Minuet the
New York governor of the West India Company. for
few trnkets valued at $24.
Several years ago ground at the OF Broadway
and sold at $24 for six inches. when
lot measuring 30 by 80 feet brought 100000
In sense the tall sides that lift themselves out OF
the busiest part Of New York without loneliness
save when the changing light turns them into many
ycolored cliffs It ia the of immense life con-
yeyed by the multitude of windows that invests the
nonstrous piles with thrilling interest; the density OF
humanity the costiness OF its and the mightiness
of the surrounding community.
y There rises reddish tower Of the Singer building
rs42 feet high The tower alone cose 100000 to build
. Below it spreads the white of the City Invest
uent building which $1o.ooo.ooo and whose % ee
yators can carry 10000 hour That one sruc
tire houses the population Of small city.
: Close by are the twin Trinity buildings. valued at
900 and opposite them stands the Equitable
fe Insurance building property representing $2ooOo
1000
Even the ground Of the small Trinity graveyard set
at the head Of Wall street. is worth $25.O00,O00
Away in the distance the white marble tower of the
METROPOLITAN Life Insurance building lifts its noble mass
700 feet above Madison square That vast edifce rep