Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-11-20
Mike Maher, Formerly of Baraboo,
Gives Some Big Figures From
the State of California
WAGE In LOS ANGELES
is ONE DOLLAR AN HOUR
Man in a Mountain Canyon Finds
That a Forest Fire Is Worth a
$1,000 to Him

1t is expected Los Angeles will be.
come the iron and steel producing
center of the Pacific coast as re-
suit Of mining and smelling project
which is now brought to the final
stages OF development. Iron ore or
from So to IS per cent purity In un-
limited millions of tons have been lo-
Gated across the border in Mexico,
within easy. shipping distance Of Los
Angeles harbor. A mountain Of this
ore within four miles Of tidewater
has been acquired by syndicate.
Col. Selg of Chicago has moved all
the effects of his million dollar Chi
cago studio to Los Angeles by special
express and has gone. into photoplay
productions on, gigantic scale.
Walnut Crop
This years walnut crop in Califor-
MIA will be between 45,000,000 and
50,00O,000 pounds. This will return
the growers about $14,000,000 Wal
nut growing is the second largest in
dustry, citrus growing being the first.
There is no danger of flooding the
market for the demand is growing all
the time. Thirty-five acres of wal
nut trees wes sold few days ago for
$7S,50O, the highest price paid for
real estate in Venture county, $2250
an acre.
We had man here that lived in the
same house So years He was a pio-
\ sneer orange grower of Alhambra.
) He often said he intended to live and
die in the old homestead. He settled
there shortly after coming from Ger
many. He was "a years old.
I saw an ad in the papers a few
days ago wanting 200 laborers at ST.
AN hour, board nd rooms hours a
days work, time and one half for
overtime as many hours as you like.
A man could work II hours and get
$14 for his days work. ! was think
ing times had changed since | was
a young man when first came to
Baraboo, worked for 80 cents day,
boarded myself and did mans work.
| were 20 years younger would be
tempted to go to work. But the most
of the people are not satisfied, no
matter what pay they are getting.
Like the street car men who said they
could not live on $40 month,
while they were on q, strike they got
along some way on $40 a month the
lodge allowed them. until the strike
was declared off. Can you beat it.
Vacant lots are drug on the mar
ket unless they are close in. heard
one man say he bought a lot for $21OO
5 or 6 years ago and sold it for $500.
The reason is labor and material have
advanced so that none but the mil
lionares are building and as dear as
everything is Los Angeles is the 3rd
, to the cheapest city in the United
States to live in, according to the
city papers. William G.. McAdoe
general advisor of the United Film COZ
poration, is here on business with
that firm and also to arrange fol
plotting land he owns close to Santa
Barbara city limits. He will sell
lots with close building restrictions
which will make it an exclusive resi-
dental colony. He has reserved sites
for a home for himself and President
Wilson.
Fire Improves Canyon
One hundred twenty-five thousand
acres of valuable timber land more
than a score OF summer camps and a
monetary loss of millions is the toll
exacted by the reat forest conflagra
tion that for 13 days swept through
the canyons and watersheds around
Los Angeles. We could feel the extra
heat in the city and it sent the
thermometer to 80 degrees instead
of from Is to 80 as before. The peo-
pie of the country have prayed fo-
rain to put out the fires and the good
Lord finally heard the prayers and
gave the country very heavy drench
ing. But its an i'll wind that blows
nobody good -and Taylor Persinger
who has a moutain ranch home in the
San Gabriel canyon, is the latest
, person to repeat the old maxium and
1 verify its truth. He declares the re
: cent forest fires, devastating as they
were to the surrounding country
r helped him at least $1,000. Tht
i flames came and licked away
Q growth OF grass and underbrush tha
4 would have cost him at least $1,000 t.
have cleared sixty five acres of th'
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