. History of Chicago Historical and commercial statistics, sketches, facts and figures, republished from the "Daily Democratic press." What I remember of early Chicago; a lecture, delivered in McCormick's Hall, January 23, 1876, (Tribune, January 24th,) . e?i per cent., and thatthe money market has never yet been fullysupplied, together with the certainty thatChicago will not be finished for thenext century at least, will induce a stilllarger number of Eastern capitalists to in-vest their money in Chicago. There isnot in the wide world a city that furnishesopportunities for safer investments t
. History of Chicago Historical and commercial statistics, sketches, facts and figures, republished from the "Daily Democratic press." What I remember of early Chicago; a lecture, delivered in McCormick's Hall, January 23, 1876, (Tribune, January 24th,) . e?i per cent., and thatthe money market has never yet been fullysupplied, together with the certainty thatChicago will not be finished for thenext century at least, will induce a stilllarger number of Eastern capitalists to in-vest their money in Chicago. There isnot in the wide world a city that furnishesopportunities for safer investments thanChicago—whether the money is employedin banking operations, oris loaned on realestate security. PRICE OF LABOR. In a city growing as rapidly as Chicago,labor is always in demand. Especially isthis true where every department of busi-ness is equally active and increasing. Indull times, and in citieswhichhavc passedthe culminating point of their prosperity,master mechanics can select their journey-men, and do somewhat as they wish. For * It is a significant commentary npon the risksand instability of banking, that of all the banksand private bankers in ChiCi-go in 1853, only one,J. M. Adsit, IS now, March 1870, here, and doingthe game WATER AVORKP. IIISTOKY OF CHICAGO. 43 the last year or two, so great has been tliedemand for labor, that those mUo workedby the day or week were tlie real masters,for good mechanics could command al-most any price they chose to ask. The following tal)le, carefully prepared,shows the price now usually paid to jour-neymen in this city. The range is large,but is not wider than the difference in theskill and capacity of different men inevery occupation: OCCUPATIOX. Blacksmiibs itlron \vkBlowers and Butchers Choppers and Packers Carpenters Cabinet Makers Upholsterers , Coopers Day Laborers Hatters, House & Sadd ersMasons and Plasterers Marble Cutters Machinists 30c^l,000 Rope Makers StiipCarp
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