The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-03-20

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And then there are many things
enumerated that I have not set down.
but whose value runs well up, includ-
ing celery, cotton, eggs, fertilizer.
canned fish, gems, honey, lettuce, lum-
Der, lime, salt, mineral waters and
hthia, whose total value runs well into
The millions. The total OF products
for the year is give at $685. 05, 200, and
to this W. ought to add tourists,
$loO. 1000, 900, for they spend that much
annually through southern California.
This gives o perhaps a better idea
OF the diversifcation of product than
anything Of which l might attempt to
elaborate. And a table Of wages will
be interesting as showing the standard
of labor. Blacksmiths get from 81 to
go cents an hour; boilermakers from
81 to 40; bookkeepers from $50 to
800 a month; bricklayers So a day:
bricksetters SO; butchers, SIS TO 800
a month; cabinet makers, SO to $3.50
a day; carpenters, $3.50 to 81; cement
anishers, IS to Sc; clerks, S25 to SIS a
AAiOAbhf SDIlPOSlloESs S1b 10 NEA n
week; street car conductors, 25 to so
cents an hour; cooks, s12 to SIS II
week; electricians, SO t 81 q day;
harvest hands. $3.50 to $2.25 a day and
board; linotype operators, $25 to S35 a
week; machinists, IS to 45 cents an
hour; painters, 50 to $3.50 per day;
pressmen, SIS to $40 a week; ranch
hands, sS5 to $40 a month and board;
ste~nographers, $50 to 800 a month;
teamsters 50 to $3.50 a day; walters.
SO to $12 a week.
AS to opportunities, there are OPP
~portunities everywhere in a growing
country. There are lots OF them in
North Dakota In real estate, it
must be said that the owners out here
have a pretty lively sense Of present
n prospective values. Down town,
some distance from the business CEN
ter, an alley way was condemned the
other day and II was decided that II
was worth $4,000 to $4,000 a front foot.
A lot that was bought for $3.50 some
twenty-five years ago sold the other
DAY for $202,0 900. Residence property
in good locations is held high. There
Is out here a disposition to sell every-
thing that is ordinarily saleable. A
man builds a bungalow for himself,
and when he gets it done somebody
likes 1t so well he sells it at a fair ad-
vance and builds another. It offends
nobody ordinarily IL you go up and
inquire what he will take for his home.
Most of them have for sale" signs
out in front-that is the modest ones.
For every man thinks he can build a
better n e time, and IL doesn't
take long to build out here. Rents
are about the same as in any city CT
the size and vary with the location and
~desirability Of the ~neighborhood.
And there are real estate sharks ga
lore, who would make Ananias turn
pale with a sense Of his apprenticeship
in the business Of lying. Trading is
the favorite method Of exchanging
property of ordinary values. A man
with an orange tract will trade II to
a man with a town house, and Just
about money enough passes to pay the
real estate operators commission.
1t isn't a good place for clerks,
bookkeepers, stenographers, lawyers.
doctors, professional men or persons
desiring to run a little store to make q
living. For the country Is full OF peo-
pie who are here for their health and
they are willing 70 work for about
anything that means a living, Many
are glad Of an opportunity to make
enough to pay board and lodging, for
they must live in a mild cliunate. and
they want to add a little In the way
Of earnings to small resources. But
for mechanics, laborers, and for those
who can do something a good deal bet
ter than anyone else, it's full Of open
ings. And there's plenty of chance for
investment, IL you get In right. But
there are a good many already on the
ground who are watching investments
pretty close, and not much gets away
from them.
/ had an interesting evening the 9TH
er day with San 7. Clover, formerly
q South Dakota newspaper man who
is well remembered by old timers OF
the territory. Sam was managing e.
itor Of the Old Chicago Post. He was
a special correspondent for The Chi
cago Herald at the time Of the Indian
uprising in which Sitting Bull lost his
life and which eliminated with the
battle OF Wounded Knee. He did the
printing for the constitutional conven-
ton Of South Dakota, and was one OF
the literary galaxy that came out or
Dakota, that included Hayden Carruth
and Hamlin Garland. Glover was In
South Dakota from 1885 to 1889 and
remembers many old timers, Plumley,
Jewell, Winship, Major Edwards,
Lounsberry, and a host OF others. He
row has The Pasadena Daily News
and a weekly magazine at Los An
geIes, The Graphic. We were up at
dinner with him at the hotel on the
top of Mount Washington, about 1000
feet above the valley where Los AM
geles lies. You can look over at the
Sierras where the clouds come down 10
rest, and down into the beautiful San
Fernando valley on the west. We
talked Of old times, and he told me he
was on the road from Oak creek to the
agency when the courier passed him
recalling Colonel Cody, or BuffaIo Bill,
from his special mission to see Sitting
Bull and get him to come IN and be
good. And when the committee Of the
South Dakota constitutional onven
ton brought in as a motto: sBy God
the People Rule" Sam went before
them and suggested that Under God
the People Rule would perhaps be less
liable to the criticism Of the eastern
fun makers. He is an interesting,
clever and able exponent of the great
business OF newspaper making, an au-
thor Of distinction, and did some very
excellent verse-before he outgrew 1t.
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