The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-20

Iliues 1000, 900
Manufactures ............ $4,000. 900
pressed meats ........... $500. 900
Nlelons 1000. 900
Nuts 2,500,0 900
owe Oil 1000. 900
Olives, picked .......,., 100000
fetroieum ............. $500. 900
POULTRY 1,275,000
Sugar ;;.....:.....-..... 100000
Vegetables and fruit con-
sumed .:.............. s.5oo,ooo
VINE and brandy. 1000 900
WOOL 100000
And then there are many things en-
umerated that l have not set down,
but those value runs we'll up. includ-
ing celery. cotton. eggs. fertilizer,
canned fish. gems. honey, lettuce, lum-
per, lime. salt. mineral water and
lithia. whose total value runs we'll in
for the yea is given at s2Os.405, 900,
and to this we ought to add tourists,
s1oO.0oo.o00. for they spend that
much annually through southern Cali
fornia.
n gives YOU perhaps a better idea
OF the diNersitication of product than
ANYTHING OF which I might attempt to
elaborate. And a table of wages will
be Interesting as showing the stand
ard of labor. Blacksmiths get from
3! to 60 cents an hour: boilermakers
81 to 40: bookkcepers $50 to 500 "a
month; bricklayers Sc a day: brick
settlers So: butchers $40 to 500 a
month; cabinetmakcrs So to $3.50 "a
day; carpenters $3.50 to 81; cement
%finishers SIS TO SO: clerks s25 to sS5
a month: compositors SIS to SEA a
week; street car conductors. 20 to so
cents np hfn1lrs N1ol-r go <~ G -
week; electricians So TO "a a day:
harvest hands S1.5O to s2.25 a day and
board; linotype operators, S25 to S35
a week machinists 3b to 45 cents an
hour; painters SO to $3.50 a day; plas-
terers 50 to Sc a day; plumbers 81 to
SIS a day: prcssmen. SIS to $50 a
week; ranch hands. $50 to $40 a
month and board: stenographers $50
to 500 n month; Transfers 50 to $3.50
q day; walters $40 to S12 a week.
AS to opportunities, there are OPP
p%ortunities everywhere in n growing
country. There are lots of them in
North Dakota. In real estate, 1t must
he 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
alleywaH was condemned the other
o"s anu II was ueclueu mat IL Was
worth $4,000 to $4,000 a front foot.
\ lot that was bought for $3.50 some
twenty-five Years age sold the other
day for $4,000 Residence proper
ty in good locations is held high. There
is u here the disposition to sell ev-
erything that is ordinarily saleable. A
man builds a bungalow for. himself.
and when he gets it done somebody
likes it so he sells it at a fair advance
and builds another. 1t offends nobody
ordinarily if 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 bet
ter one next time. and it doesn't take
long to build out here. Rents are
about the same as in any city of the
size and vary with the location and
~desirability of the neighborhood. And
there are real estate sharks galore.
who would make Ananias turn pale
with a sense of his apprenticeship in
the business of lying. Trading is the
favorite method Of exchanging prop
crty of ordinary values. A man with
an orange tract will trade it to a man
with a town house, and just about
enough money passes to pay the real
estate operators commission.
l.. IL ISL d SoOo pace LOT clerkS,
bookkeepers. stenographers. lawyers.
doctors. professional men. or persons
desiring to run a little store to make
a living. For the country is full of
people who are here for their health
n they are willing to 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 climate, 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
better than anyone else. it's full of
openings. And there's plenty of
chances for investment, If you get
in right. But there are a good many
already on the ground who are watch
ing investments pretty close, and not
much gets away from them.
I had ar interesting evening the
other day with Sam T. Clover. for
merly a South Dakota newspaper man
who is we'll remembered by old timers
of the territory. Sam was managing
editor Of the old Chicago Post. He
was a special correspondent for the
Chicago Herald at the time Of the
Indian uprising in which Sitting Bull
lost his life and which eliminated
Win tne Dattle OF wounded Knee. He
did the printing for the constitutional
convention of South Dakota. and was
n Of the literary galaxy that came
out of Dakota. that included Hayden
Carruth and Hamlin Garland. Glover
was in South Dakota from 1885 to
1889 and remembers many of the
old timers. Plumley. Winship. Maj
or Edwards. Lounsberry. and a host
of others. He now has the Pasadena
Daily News and a weekly magazine at
Los Angeles. the Graphic. We were
up at dinner with him at the hotel on
the top of Mount Washington, about