Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-20

And then there are many things
enumerated that 1 have not set down,
but whose value runs we'll up incllld-
ing celery, cotton, eggs. fertilizer,
canned fish, gems, honey. lettuce lunf-
Der, lime, salt. mineral waters and
l:thia, whose total value runs we'll in
to the millions. The total Of products
for the year iA given at $208, 405.00O,
and to this We ought to add tourists,
500, 100000. for they spend that much
annually through Southern California.
This gives you perhaps a better
idea of the Investigation of product
than anything of which ! might at
| tempt to elaborate. And table Of
w,ges will be interesting as showing
the standard of labor. Blacksmiths
get from 81 to 60 cents an hour;
boiermlakers 81 IT, 40; bookkeepers
$50 to 500 a month; brlcklayers Sc a
day; bricksetters So; butchers SIS to
$1CO a month; cabinetmakers So to
$3.50 a day; carpenters, $3.50 to 81
cement finishers, S. to Sc; clerks SIS
to $S5 month; compositor, $18 to
|! $24 a week; street car conductors.
rs to 30 cents an hour; cooks, $12
to $1S week; electricians So to 81 a
day; harvest hands, $1.50 to 1925 a
day and board; linotype operators,
$25 to $35 week; maohinists, IS to
40 cents an hour; painters 81 to $3.50
day; plasters S to S. day; plumb
ers, 81 to IS a day; pressmen. SIS to
$40 a week; ranch hands, $35 to $40
month and board; stenographers,
$50 to 800 a month; teamsters, 81 to
$3.50 a day; walters SO to $12 a
week.
As to opportunities there are op-
portunities every where in a growing
country. There are lot of them in
North Dakota. In real estate, it must
be said that the owners out here have
a pretty lively sense of present and
prospective values. Down town, some
distance from the business center, an
an alley way was condemnd the other
day and it was decided that it worth
$4,000 to $500 a front foot. A lot
that was bought for $3.50 some twenty
five years ago cold the other day for
100000. Residence property in good
locations is held high. There is out
here the disposition to sell everything
that is ordinarily saleable. A man
builds q bungalow tor himself, and
when he gets it done somebody likes
it SO he sells it at fair advance and
builds another. 1t offends nobody
ordinarily II you go up and inquire
what he will take for his home. Most
of them have "for sale" signs in
front-that is the modest Ones. For
every man thinks he can build better
one next time, and it doesn't take long
to build out here. Rents are about
the same as I'm any city Of the size
and vary with the location and desira-
bility OF the neighberhood: And there
are real estate sharks galore, vino
would make Americans turn pale with
a sense of his apprenticeship in the
business of lying. Trading is the
favorite method of exchanging proper
ty of ordinary values. A man with
an orange tract VIII trade it to a man
with town house, and just about |
enough money passes to pay the real
estates operators commiseto1.
It isn't a good place for clerks,
bcokkeepers, stenegrnphers, lawyers.
doctors, professional men, or persons !
to run q little store to make
q living. For the country Is full OF
people who are here for their health
and they are willing to work for about
anything that me.s)ns . living. Many.
are glad Of an opportunity to make
enough to pay board and lodging. for