The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-19

WeaCner C0uQlLlOuS West VI the
Missouri River this year have started
boom in the sinking OF artesian
wells and the South Dakota state
engineers department is being called
upon frequently to attend to that
branch of the work. Assistant En-
gineer Green is now locating two
wells in Rolling Green Township in
northwestern Lyman County, and a
petition was filed asking that four
wells be located in Vivian Township,
in the central part of Lyman County
Petitions are also on file for the loca-
ton of wells in several other town
ships in Lyman County. ALI of these
wells are to be sunk at township ex-
pense, and the intent of the projects
is to SO locate the wells that their
flow can be diverted into the different
draws" in the townships to supply
as much OF the area of the township
as possible with flowing water.
Specifications have been completed
and advertisements for bids prepared
for the sinking of well in Meers
Township, Stanley County, the bids
to be opened at Meers within few
days. So far the sinking of artesian
wells in Stanley County, outside the
valley of Bad River and along the
Missouri, has not been the most sue
cessful, and the work is not being
pushed in that county as strongly as
it is in Lyman, but several townships
want to make try at it and hope to
obtain wells which, if they will not
flow, will bring the water near enough
to the surface that it can easily be
pumped with wind engines and al
lowed to flow in that manner.
Thousands of strikers returned to
work last Saturday in London as the
result of the settlement reached
through negotiations of the Board of
Trade, and steps were Immediately
taken to relieve the distress which
became acute as the result of the tie
up of food supplies. Orders were is
sued for the moving of foods and ice
before all other freights and the city
was soon relieved. The workers are
jubilant over having gained the larger
portion of their demands. The
lightermen, whose demands were last
to be settled, gained ten-hour day
and Is per cent increase in wages.
The first work undertaken on the
docks was the unloading of food
cargoes. It was found that an entire
cargo of $4,000 mutton carcasses had
spoiled and the consignment, valued
at upward of 100000 had to be
destroyed.
An alleged shortage of between
$3.50 and $4,000 has been discov-
cred in the accounts of the manager
of the Farmers Elevator at Andover,
S. D. Friends of o. G. Newcomb. the
manager, believe the alleged shortage
is the result of carelessness and slack
methods, rather than Intentional
wrong doing. The institution has ap-
parently been in prosperous condi-
ton, and has steadily paid dividends
of 20 per cent. Suspicion that the
affairs of the company were not as
prosperous as appeared on the sur
face was aroused by the apparent
discrepancy between the amount of
grain on hand and the outstanding
shortage certificates. The latter
called for $4,000 bushels of grain,
when it was found there were but
1000 bushels in the elevator. 1t is
said that the company owes 5000
to a bank, which, with the grain
shortage certificates brings it's total
outstanding Indebtedness to about
$4O, 1000, to Offset which is the elevator
building, worth $12,500, and about
$4,000 in outstanding accounts, max
ing the net discrepancy between
SIS, 1000 and $4,000.
If the indications of Government
crop reports are borne out in the final
record of this years harvest the yield
of both wheat and corn will be the
smallest since 1907, when both of
those crops showed sharp falling off
from the production of the preceding
year, and the output of wheat will be
about 35,U00,O00 bushels under the
average of the last three years, and
the output of corn 235,000,0O0 under
the average. These figures do not
suggest, of course, actual scarcity of
these important cereals, but they do
represent very material decline
from the expectations of the early
part of the season and even from the
lowered promise held forth in the July
Government report. These crops
might still be described as promising
what might be called normal yields
but it is no longer possible to hope
that the country this year will profit
by the stimulation of business which
would have resulted from unusual