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Show vha-tr.i u (iuaitz mill In Chicago, after tiUamluij t-btiiuattsof all leading form-.!rie form-.!rie here, aiul the eont compared with riau Francisco is as follows: rot of mall in Chicago . . . f 9,500.00 Freight trom Chicago to Elko . 3,ia.OJ T tal lia currency at 71 cents) $ 12.72S.00 Or iu coin. ,03t5.3 Coin. l.Vst in Sau l'rancisco . . ; $ 12,500.00 Fi itit from S.m Francisco to Flko 1,211.00 Total co-,t ? 12,711.00 I u favor of Chicago and against Ban Franci-co, $4,7o5. Tlie frcitrht UrifTs between Chicago and K.I ko and San Francisco and Elko itoo-1: Per ton. ililts. l'r. in Clii'-n'j to Omaha by car l. ails $70 400 From Omaha to I'romontoiy 4 1,000 From l'romontory to lilko . 30 223 From San Francisco to Elko 4i 5lJ5 '1 he follow ii'C item also needs little couiinect by WMy of Illustration, and its drift cao easily be perceived. In April la.t Messrs. Piereon & Starr, of YalW jo, decided to build a flouring mill at that city, and, with this ldeain view, called upon two of the leading eatab-lislimeiiia, eatab-lislimeiiia, oud requested tetimates of its ci'tit here. After cloce figuring, the bids wtreiiiitin one ollering to do the work for 2l,o )i, the other for $22,000. The parties sent East, and purchased this mill at a cost of $14 000 delivered here a difference, it will be Been, of ver J7.000 in their favor. Azain, the Sau Lorenzo Lumber Com-pany Com-pany desired to purchase a rough locomotive loco-motive for hauling lumber, and wishing to patronize a local entabllahnient which hud always done their wotk, requested a leading firm in this city to estimate upon its cof-t. The lowest amount the locomotive could be built for here was $5,000 in coin. The company sent East, and had the locomotive built at Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, its total cost upon reaching the wharf here being $3,2nO in currency. The Han Jose Woollen Mills Company Compa-ny wanted a number of delicate pulleys mid hhafts built for their establishment. Parties came to this city and inquired wnat they could be purchased for here. l)isaU?lied with the price asked, they Kent En-it and had them built at the rat? of 9 cents per pound ln gold. These I'U'leys and shafts could not have been touched here for less than 14 cents per pound. ?.iu Francisco JluUetin. the iru roiinir.N or six rnt.v- is o. There Wa a tiicn iu tin. hi-tor.v of this tl,ii.,i h ir'-piin-s no ter.aciom memory mem-ory to c.ill it to n.ii. u iitii the iron f.mudrv bsi'iinf" tci uj i'd a i romu eut oiuce anions in hadiu;; ii.dustrieS. The many rta'wiaJiii.cius located here were al iloiiti.shii'i.', fc.ve, evcii more, crowded crowd-ed wilii orl. ttiol coii-tautly incr.-x-.lng u.e fai.iliuts lor per form ing it. The buMiies -.ia excel.-!3t in lvw, and itn-j itn-j i, wi ;..:e!i.y i::itil 1SJJ, when the V, a,!i,.e exciU'Iucuf Tatd. Then came ti.e lu-ii like a t;;;r.Ueruo!t; fabulotu i ioh s were l.e-llin-i ia tlm le gesofNe-i gesofNe-i J., a:ol th mjoiiitiery t J rc.-t t hem fii.ii weil !i!i!i:ii ha !s KUsl be buiit immediately, iin n".iM'i'f.';, sir! Qu.utz luiilswere orihrtd ly Hie wholesale, tiie litinaLid for mir.i;, machinery was unprecedented, aud too local rtq'iire-mciits rtq'iire-mciits iiicit uscd to a n: ut xt..ni. '1 i e todiid-ies weiH tiini.in u'gUt and uy in luacy ia.-tai;c( t d ti:e brilliant hi.w of the ininace hr.-s had by v.o int-ans C'iteui.tiidu rivals iiitho iuime-(ii.i!c iuime-(ii.i!c Ci)iii.teUii!;i'i s of happy t in, lovers ui.il colitel.ltd nup'ti ye. '1 lie lictioiis mining txcitemei.t was not of lon du-raiion, du-raiion, but a there wie many Valuable Valua-ble ledges dlrciiveied tlin woiking of which in ce-f it'.it-.d tiieer.'Ctio lof mills, I etc. the burs' ing of the bubble had no immediate deleterious effect upon the foundry bu'iio In fact, from li(i3 to 1'j'7, the bn-iKe.-s, taking ail branches into CoiiideiaUoii, iucieased. 'l'he building and manufacturing interests of liio euy ceuted a lurz demand for wolk, as weil as the numerous orders j lor mm i n machinery n cei ved from the luteiior. Our rfjior'.er lias invet-tig'tted the loun iry tiHiiiess ttioroug'ily, ar.d with the sole idea of prera-itiiir; it to the poldic iu its tiue iiht, wiihcut fear ol pitjudice. i o tills ei.d he ha conferred confer-red with bit;s t niployi r Knd employeH i.nd the fucH giviiiKie br.-ei' i,m ii,. . rrnTiomi. As regard- the c .j.fii t lie biiMine-i- a J t ai a'-, R J'l 'el ty Co. I . ct e:-tiliifite u,b i o fom.td Uolil a .stale-m. .stale-m. til ol iiumber of ii tn euiph yed and the WMKt s j-i I at tli l tiiiie. 'iliu i-iIIuwiuk' " 't nt pi-ihotiH f in ply ! i:;-clmtes i:;-clmtes tne n rtt.iices iu tiif'vnrloiis I'Tltllt'LeM o ti.O lUalr. S-, lii 'i I.H Cftl- littii frmu tl.o r,..v- i,,iu ui i fc'atc-nicutrt fc'atc-nicutrt of i ir.'t,,,i i; I'j,' te.-i -m-.kci.-, 4-; iu.ic)'i..i-ip, i'j-i; Lis. ksmiili-', 1'17; inoiihitis.HJ; l.o:li-r-;iiiff is, l'i(; lir-lj.. tis, tjO; irtt.ulcrH, lm. Ti.-.al, l.lUJ. 1'lie nvcratre pay of t tie fkillci iiicchiinie was $1 p'.r tiav, tlie c.i-ts litre Juigyr Hinuiinis were jisiil. bcii; excej.tioi.a!. l.ct it 1 lcmtiiiliL-rcd tiut tliis was til f-talfti f altaiis a year ag'. Now then I'ur the j rtvciii t iiue. The un-'iifci-s i-oimnrcctl to decline early In lsO'i, and l.et.u-j tue year closed fiur lar,'eebiabliHliuietiis failed, ir.voiv-iug ir.voiv-iug u i-.i-si of n oi lc.-s than t'iloi ,(( . '( iio other fiHiiidri-s liiigered uloiig ulthruvli, uiu'cr the eii cunistaticts, it would lr.ive lecn cooJ policy for home of tlit'in to have circonl iiiucil liuiineta tud Mill liad work to We visited r.oinu i.l' the. foundrit-a a fi-w (iaysaijo to uleau information u tothtircon-dltUm, tothtircon-dltUm, and were surprised to see the charge of a ct,r. 'Tlie large t-hops t i i 1 reintiued, but the nuruberof workmen work-men had liistcrialiy decreased, ai.d iivvarni was Lo lanj.tr to le ti.-ed in t-pc&Iviijg of tlit ai. Tha i-iMprietoi.-', i:i ir.uny inst;uic, s, l,;vl h il: jecii.d ftir; and our query s. to tne i .ondition of their husiiitrsrt eau fed a ick)y :-n,i;e to over-O over-O trend the ewunt-jtance, iiiuicatirf? that incy re;n." et:r iid.rrr-tion t's a t tlni J'live. ir.ioii n.-isurin;; them that w were strinu.iiy in eann.-;, however, coin tous ti-ni!iieiil ai uiiiforiiily received re-ceived and infonuati.iii tendered. To illustrate the c uvJitiou uf r.H'airs, a ucscrij t'tu r.i'a foutidry which has, i;t.;il wiihin tliej :i.-t ilirco wetk.iveu employment lo twenty inpii, iay be of uko. l.i.okiu iuto tlia buiMin froru the ,reet, it liad u (lark, de.-olat'; look, but feeling of curiosity prompted us to ciittr Ptul explore. The only cvui-ruitwas a boy a .small boy wb.) waj jiretci)ilii,i Ij work ou Kvime cn.lij!i-s a: the faiiher end of the building. ltn liitt iliscov, rt d, be was not es. rlin himself iiiueli, but up. on lichiniuc c ii r a; pr:ich he tiinlto work very Laid. ileporter. "llow niauy ii.i-u me employed em-ployed in this establishment"."' !' (stiaightcijilja; llilu.seli'). "l';u the Oiily ninu here now; there were tweuty thrte ivcelis ni,'o, but tiify ain't here now, '(;. sj there ain't' no work tor thf m to d ." Of the foundries vislied, fe v proprietors proprie-tors t I tiinf d to be enij'Ioy intr m re than Vilf tiaeir regular number ol nieu, and other candidly mated that they had no oik ou hand and ?,i dd t-Ve i,o prospect for any. TV.o-e ea..uii.hnu uts whi -h liad wei k iu the machinery lino were compelled to limine very clo-.e or else the work wotiul to Cliicajj v ftnd the I'rolii.s were consequently anistU. As resrarda home cat i'iis, there la ho liitle buiidin Koins on nt tie-sent tie-sent that theileiiiand is limited. To our repeated inquirie a- to liie c.jnditiou i f the l'ii.-iiie3, the answer ca- tfiveu: "We Kie d.iitiif little at present, and thai ii itl t. :etii-ra! jobtiiix character." The true f-ta'e nt" the b'jsiuess may be sImiwu ai;ain ny the nums r of persons empb.ye.1 ftiui; the ski! u-.l mechanics liein paid ut the rate of thre- dullan-perOayofteu dullan-perOayofteu liouis all mechanics in foumiiies are now p.:,i by tl,e hour, b'rom tlie present mtioni;, both employers em-ployers and empiojts reiid the biisi-nes biisi-nes u- fast g.'intf to (hc.iy, but neither advance any aiirument ti ave it Willi tue view of ascertaining the vau-eof this remarkable decline iu the foundry bu-ines-, we questioned proprietors pro-prietors ami pr.i-ticd men of the v.;ri-oil v.;ri-oil tstablislmient., au'i f.ur.,1 i,lttl dillerent theories were hel i ihIj' vr i,, the matter. A nui ber attrii-uteu i iie dt'pr s-!oil 'if I 11 bll.-iLiess to the decitv i of tue mining business, sou ,, to tliV I lagaatioii of misiuesa ;eueral:y,t,theis i In dirrct competition with Chico and ' tLe Bities f.iriher east, price, co;,d;tiou, : .Mid position of laborers, hrotuhi aooui ; by trades' unions nud tiio-e "who seek tjuse the men f r imiivi-lual promotion; promo-tion; aui still nijro t') a combination it a l these caaaes, which ia'.ter ars proi ablv about riht. Few of our eitiz-ns are awaraof thd amount of work mat is seal K ist, and I forthe enlightenmeut cf the masses the ' iiemH given below Lave been ciliated. Iu August la-t the t'Lico Milling Company, located at White Pike, pur- |