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'at* a ion eer 'Address .416 - tttyte... - on VOL. XLI. VIRGINIA CITY, MONTANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1914 No. 47 MAP SHOWING RELATIVE ARMED STRENGTH OF COUNTRIES War . 0 *•\•maa._\7-;,,=\ RUSSIA 2400.000 Today The censorship is very , strict, hence no deft- nite War news broke' this mcir*g. Troops afe - being massed and a decisive battle is expected to take place daily. FORTY-SEVEN PER CENT OF MONTANA'S MEN ARE GOOD MONEY MAKERS Washington, Aug. 1L -According , to the report on occupations recent- ly issued by Director William J. Har- ris of the bureau of census, depart- ment of commerce, there were 178,- 147 persons 10 years of age and over in Montana engaged in gainful oc- cupations in 1910. The gainful work- ers thus formed 47.5 per cent of the total population of the state (376,053) - .and 58.9 per 'Writ of the pbpulation 10 years of age and over (303,551). In 1900 the 114,799 gainful workers of the state formed 47.2 per cent of the total population and 59.9 per cent of the population 10 years of age and •over. The male gainful workers in 1910 numbered 169,896, or 84 per cent of tall males 10 years of age and over, as --Compared with 104,990, or 84.9 per cent in 1900. The female gainful -workers in 1910 numbered 18,851, or 16.6 per cent of all females 10 years of age and over, as compared with '9,809, or 14.5 per cent in 1906. The 178,747 gainful workers ill 1910 were diatrikuted among .the main branches' of occupations as &I - (lows: Agriculture, forestry and ani- mal husbandry, 65,017, or 30.8 per cent; extraction of minerals, 19,402, or 10.9 per cent; manufacturing and mechanical industries, 33,696, or 18.8 per cent; transportation, 29,987, or • 13.4 per cent; trade, 13,280, or 7.5 - per cent; public service, 2,692, or 15 per cent; professional service, 7,807, or 4.4 per cent; domestic and personal service, 17,395, or 9.7 per cent; and clerical occupations, 5,580, or 3.1 per cent. Of the gainful workers in 1910, 159,896, or 89.5 per cent, were metes and 18,851 or 10.5 per cent females. In agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry the males numbered 53,- '240, or 98.8 per cent, and the females, 1,777, or 3.2 per cent. Practically all - -19,390, or 99.9 per cent -of the -persons engaged in the extraction of minerals were males. n manufact- uring and mechanical industries 31,- 789, or 95.6 per cent of the workers were males and 1,807, or 5.4 per cent females. Males constituted 98.4 per cent of the 23,978 persons engaged in transportation, 89.3 per cent of the 13,280 persons engaged in trade; and 95.1 per cent of the ?,,962 persons en- gaged in public service. In profes- sional service 4,567, or 58.5 per cent 'of the workers were males end 3,- 240 or 41.5 per cent females, a large proportion of the females being school teachers. In domestic and personal workers were males and 8,445, or service, 8,950 or 61.5 per cent of the 48.6 per cent females. Of the persons pursuing clerical occupations, 3,946 or 70.7 per cent, were males and 1,- 634 or 29.3 per cent females. Of the 159,896 gainfully occunied males in 1910, 61,489 ' wer native, whites of native parentage, 32,989 native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, 59,751 foreign born whites, 819 negroes, and 4,839 other colored. The proportion which the gainfully occupied males formed of all the males 10 years of age and over In each principal class of the populaton was: For native whites f native parentage, 81.3 per cent; native fhites of foreign or mixed p_aitrtage, 76.1 per cent; for foreign born Mites, 94.1 per cent; and for negroes. per feat. Of the 18,851 gainfully occepiel fe- males in 1910, 7,667 were untie.' whites of native parentage, 6,063 na- tive whites of foreign or mixed par- entage, 4,654, foreign born whites, 312- negroes, and 155 other colored. The proportion which the gainfully occupied females formedi of all the females formed of all the females 10 years of age and over in..each prin- cipal class of the poptitatiiri was: For native whites of nativv7parentage, 15.6 per cent; for native, whites of foreign or mixed parentage, 18.1 per cent; for foreign born whites, 17.9 per cent; and for negroes 46.4 per cent. The gainfully occupied males 1910 were distributed according age periods as follows: 10 to 13 years, 439; 14 to 15 year -a, 1,009; 16 to 20 years, 12,565; 21 to.44 years, and age unknown, 109,595; and 46 years and over 36,327. The proportion which the gainfully occupied males formed of all males in each age period was: For those 10 to 13 years of age, 3.7 per cent; for those 14 to 15 years of age, 17.1 per cent; for those 16 to 20. years of ago, 72.7 per cent; for those 21 to 44 years of age, 95.7 per cent - that is, all but 4 men in every 100 had gainful occupations; and for those 45 years of age and over, 89.0 per cent. The gainfully occupied females in 1910 were distributed according to age periods as follows: 10 to 13 years, 85; 14 to 15 years, 231;1.6 to 20 years, 3,361; 21 to 44 years, and age unknown, 12,191; and 45 years and over 2,813. The proportion which the gainfully occuied females form- ed of all females in each age period was: For those 10 to 13 years of -age, 0.7per cent; for those 14 to 16 years of age, 4.1 per cent; for those 16 to 20 years of age, 24.8 per cent; for those 21 to 44 years of age, 19.9 pr cent; and for those 45 years of age and over, 13.8 per cent. In Montana in 1910 there were 1,- 448 males and 316 females, 10 to 15 years of age engaged in gainful oc- cupations; i-zaten iiherwise, 8.t per cent 3f e males an.. 1.8 per cent of the females 10 to 15 years of age were gainful workers. In .1900 there were 922 males and 2 70 females 10 to 15 years of age engaged in gain- ful occupations, which was 8.1 per cent of all females 10 to 15 years of age. The principal occupations follow- ed by the males and the females, re- spectively in Montana in 1910 were as follows: SERVIAN TROOPS _READY TOR_ACTION HEAD OF THE GERMAN ARMY - w Count von Mol;te, commander -in. chief of the Germen army. gineers . . 751 - Engineers' (stationary) . . Farm laborers ., 18,359 Farmers and 'Idyl farmers . . 22,930 Fireman (excelit locomotive and • fire department) . . . ...... '442 'Foremen and overseers (rail- road transportation 860 ricild and silver mine operatives 3,462 Laborers: Copper factories . . • 2,123 General and not specific . 6,655 Road and street building . 420 Saw and planing mills . 1,359 Stea mrailroad 12,201 Lawyers, judges and juries .... 621 Locomotive engineers . . .1,099 Lumbermen raftsmen and wood Locomotive firemen . . ... 949 choppers ..... Machinists and 'millwrights ....1,248 Manufacturers and officials . . 645 • Painters, glaziers and varnish- ers (building) 821 Physicians and surgeons . ...' 629 I Plumbers and gas fitters . 522 ' Porters (except in stores) . . 407 Quarry operatives . . . 400 Real estate agents and officials 807 Retail dealers 4,485 Salesmen (stores) 2,335 Saloon keepers . . . 1,027 Semiskilled operatives: Copper mines . . . 471 Servants 2,213 Soldiers, sailors and marines 743 Stock herders, drovers and feed - Stock raisers 6,324 feed- ers 3,459 Switchmen and flagmen (steam railroad) 522 Teachers (school) . . . ' 449 Males. Telegraph operators . . . 627 ' Waiters . 550 Females. Boarding and lodging house Barbers, hairdressers, and mani- icurists 880 Bartenders . 1,384 Blacksmiths . . 1,451 Bookkeepers, cashiers, and ac- countants 1,369 Brakemen 874 ttrick and stone masons' 586 Builders and building contrac- tors • 4 • 829 rpeatara . . . . ivil engineers' and surveyors. 611 Clerks (except clerk in stores) 1,780 Clerks in stores 1,105 in Coal mine operatives . . 3,674 to Commercial travelers . . 435 Conductors (steam railroads) ' 5711 Copper mine operatives . 9,852 Deliverymen . 846 Draymen, teamsters and express - men 2,102 Electricians and electrical en- . k eepere -- . - . - Iry I, 44 - -- ow • •-• .144 Bookkeepers, cashiers and ac- countants . . 673 Clerks in stores . 379 Clerks (except clerks in stores) 200 Dressmakers and seamstress Farm laborers . 1 '0 4 0 6 8 4 (not in factory) . Farmers and dairy farmers _1,092 Laundresses (not in laundry) 500 Laundry operatives . 488 , Midwives and nurses . 366 Milliners and millinery dealers 348 Musicians and teachers . . 294 Saleswomen (stores) . . 759 Retail dealers . . . n _ 212 Servants . . . . .3 994 Stenographers and typewriters. 804 Teachers (school) . . . PAYS A' STERLING TRIBUTE TO MAKERS OF EARLY MONTANA HISTORY Governor Sam V. Stewart deliver- ed the following brief, but beautiful address to ttie pioneers last week in Bozeman: / \We are gathered today to dedi- cate this tablet, which commemor- ates the first quarter century of Mon- tana's statehood. In the life time of a man or woman twenty-five years is a goodly portion; in the swiftly passing icons of time, in the history of mankind's progress, it is but a moment. \It is indeed fortunate that today, while we briefly review the progress that Montana has made in the twen, ty-five years of its statehood, we are yet permitted to meet and mingle with many of those who laid the foundation of this commonwealth. \It is exceedingly fitting that this double anniversary celebration should have been held under the auspices or the Pioneers of Montana, and like- wise it is appropriate that these ex- ercises should be had amid the aut- umn glories of the Gallatin. \Eloquent and truthful tribute has been paid to the pioneers of our state, but words have not yet been coined that will fully express the debt Mon- tantowes to those who laid here -the' foundation of our commonwealth. Concerning those who blazed the trail for the westward march of empire, it has been truthfully said that none started but the brave and none sur- vived but the - strong. About me I see the bowed heads and thinning locks if- - -reien and women who have grown'c old and have given themselves to the upbtOlding of Montana. What an in- spirtition these lives hold to those who come after. What a heritage of love and devotion to duty they must leave to their adopted state! \Gallatin was first' in Montana to pour her golden streams of grain into the markets of the world; it has been in the van of our steady marc i li of progress. From here we send out to the far corners of the state the young men and women who, fired by ambi- tion and fitted by training to as- sist largely in the making of the Mon- tana of the future.. \Gallatin fittingly represents the transition which Montana Is today undergoing. Here on every hand are to be seen the landmarks of our state's first history; and here, side by side with the historic associations of the past, are the living evidences of today's progress. \In the twenty-five years since Montana was admitted into the gal- axy of states, we have made substan- tial and material progress. We have diversified our industries and in many lines of effort we have conteibuted to the material prosperity of the world. In this quarter century over $100,000;000 of Montana gold has gone to enrich the commerce of the world; in these twenty-five years over $400,000,000 of Montana silver has mines and smelters will always be great and must continue to contrib- ute their enormous yields to the wealth and industry of the world, that while our water power must ever he of increasing importance and prof- it, the Montana of the future will be the Montana of the farmer and the small stock raiser, the solid, substan- tial citizens upon whom the ultimate prosperity of our state must rest. \From every state in the union and from every country On the globe in- dustrious farmers are coniing to MOn- tarn to take advantage of - the ferille soil and the gleriotis climate of this state The story of Montana's . won- derful yields has gone forth to every nation and a land hungry world has hearkened to the call of Opportunity. The production of grains, forage crops and livestock is today increas- ing by leaps and bounds, and it is idle even to speculate upon what the full total of Montana's yields will ul- timately be. It is enough to know that in ten years Montana's yield has increased more than one thousand per cent; that last year the number of hogs in Montana more than doubled; that Montana, more than any other state in the union, is now practicing diversified and scientific farming. Contemplate these facts and then ride across our state and realize that the farmers of Montana have scarce- ly scratched the broad expanse of prairie and benchland that is waiting for the plow -and possibly you can vision what the Montana of the fut- ure will be. \Today while throughout most of the civilized world the storm clouds have gathered and across a continent may be heard the tramp of troops marching to carnage, here in Mon- tana an army is also mobilizing. You can see them gather in the early morning hours on ten thousand Mon- tana fields; but it is pleasant to re- flect that - oxilw - is an army - of - - -- indus.: try and of peace, and not an army of war and destruction. Our artil- lery is the binder and the thresher, and our battery is \service\ and not \slaughter and much as one must regret the terrible conflict that today engages Europe, we -rejoice that Mon- tana is in a position to help feed the hungry that war must make and to help bear the burden of civilization which our European neighbors seem for the moment to have cast off. \Little I think, did the hardy pio- neers who laid the foundation of our commonwealth dream of the vast ex- tent of the empire which they were opening to mankind. Little can we even yet realize the mighty part des- tiny has cast for us to play. \I have endeavored to briefly in- dicate the direction in whicn our ma- terial progress is today tending, but \What constitutes a state? Not high raised battlement or hi- boured mind, Trick walls or moated gate, Not cities proud and spires and turrets crowned. \Not still bars of gold, matte of copper or trains of wheat. These are but the evidences of either our in- dustry or our opportunity. They may furnish the outer wall of our line of ; defense, but unless they inspire us to nobler conduct, unless they remain always our servants and never our masters, unless they are used to make for ,better citizenship they add noth- ing to the strength of our common- wealth. Unless they agree to give us \'Men who their duties know. been spread to the far corners of the Who know their rights, ' and know - globe; in this brief time our hills ing dare maintain, have given over n00,000,000 worth It were better for Montana that her of copper to aid in the civilizing of soil were old and • unkind and that the world and the progress of science, nature's vast resources remained lock. Millions of head of Montana cattle ad within her mountain fold. and Montana sheep have gone to help .\Montanapvres many debts to her feed the hungry, and our wool has sturdy race of pioneers. We thrill been used to warm the bodies of men with admiration as we are told of and women wherever clothing is the dangers to which they sere ex - known. ._., posed, of the hairbreadth escapes they \And yet we are at butthe begin- experienced, of the hardships they en- ning of the development of our great dured; but we stand in reverence of state. While some of our old timers the lasting imprint their character gave to the citizenship of the state. Representing inherent manhood, the' pioneers will be longest remembered, not for their daring, which was un- equalled, but rather for their love of justice and their high ideals, upon which, a quarter of a century ago, they founded this commonwealth. \We have placed here a tablet which in the years to come may serve as a reminder that this important an- niversary in Montana's 'history was not permitted to pass unobserved. In feeble words, but out of the fullness of our hearts, we have sought to pay tribute to those who brought the Mon- tana -of-today --into-the-realm of the possible. But, my friends, this day will haye been idly spent, it might as well as be forgotten 'entirely, unless from it was drawn the great lesson it holds for us. \Unless we can leave , bare today previous effortc_ awl that wnile_our with _greater pride in Montana ; un- less we leave here todayinspirec - ffith ---- ----- some of the faith and some of the - courage that actuated these pioneers in the past; unler Wes leave bere'te- day profoundly impreatied with the - , great work that lies ahead of us... impressed with the duty that we, as the pioneers of this day, owe to those who are to come after; unless by rea- _on of, this memory -rousing gather- ing and 7 tWeTlii ennobling surroundings we find our ambition stirred and, our hearts attuned to desire for greater service to. out Mate, then this Any's meeting v011,. have shown Ailurselveu incapable di following and unworthy to follow in the footstepa of those who builded civilization in tile west.\ may look upon the production of 25,- 00,000 bushels of wheat, which is Montana's estimate for this year, with something akin to amazement, It is but fair to assume that when the golden anniversary of Montana's statehood is celebrated these figures will seem trivial indeed; for in that day, unless all signs fail, Montana will be universally recognized as the bread basket of the world and the imagination staggered brthe enor- mous total of our output. \While we look back•with most par- donable pride upon the days when Montana led the world in the pro- duction of _imid,while_sve_view.with- satisfaction the days when we were first in silver, first in copper, first In beef and first in sheep, candor compels the admission that Montana's new era -the era of its - agricultural development -must overshadow all its • •••• '
