Decorators.-Anaconda and Butte, 45 cents per hour; Great Falls, 50 cents per hour.

Brewers.-Butte, Great Falls and Helena, $3.50 per day.

Tailors.-Butte, $21 per week.

Butchers.-Butte, head shopman, $90 per month or $4 per day; in slaugh

ter house, same; delivery men, $75 per month or $3 per day.

Blacksmiths.-$4 to $5 per day.

Mill and Smeltermen.-$3 to $4.50 per day.

Quarrymen.-$3.50 per day of nine hours and eight hours on Saturday. Bakers. $18 to $25 per week.

The five last are Butte quotations.

CAMPARTIVE AVERAGE WAGES OF EMPLOYES OF
MILLS FOR YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, AS BELOW

FLOURING

COMPARTIVE AVERAGE WAGES OF SAWMILL EMPLOYES AS REPORT-
ED BY EMPLOYERS, YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, AS BELOW.

COMPENSATION OF STREET RAILWAY EMPLOYES JUNE 30, 1900.

SHOWING RANGE OF WAGES PAID TO EMPLOYES IN BRICK YARDS IN MONTANA, YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900.

AVERAGE WAGES OF BREWERY EMPLAYES AS COMPILED FROM REPORTS OF EMPLOYERS, YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1900, ETC.

NOTE.-In certain case where employes received board an allowance of $20.00 per month is made in making up the average rate of pay.

AVERAGE WAGES OF FOUNDRY EMPLOYES JUNE 30, 1896, 1897, 1898 AND 1900 AS REPORTED BY EMPLOYES.

AVERAGE WAGES WITH BOARD) OF FARM HANDS,
SHEEP HERDERS AND RANCH COOKS, JUNE 30, 1900,

SCALE OF PRICES FOR CIGAR MAKERS. Clear Havana hand work cigars, five inches long, straight .$23 per thousand $1.00 less on each quarter-inch shorter down to four inches or less. Seed and Havana hand work, five inches long, straight

$18 per thousand

$1.00 less on each quarter-inch shorter down to four inches or less. Clear seed hand work, five inches long, straight

...$16 per thousand

........

$1.00 less on each quarter-inch shorter down to four inches or less. Clear seed mould work. five inches long, straight.....

...

.$13 per thousand

$1.00 less on each quarter-inch shorter down to four inches or less.

For cuttings, $1.00 more than above scale of prices.

Mixed, tipped or sprigged, same as clear Havana filler.

All cigars not straight, $1 extra.

Sharper and less than five molds work, $1 less than hand work
On hand scraps (scraps to be prepared), $1 extra.

All wages payable weekly in cash.

AVERAGE WAGES OF EMPLOYES IN AND AROUND MINES, MILLS AND SMELTERS IN PRINCIPAL EMPLOYING COUNTIES, AS TAKEN FROM REPORTS MADE BY EMPLOYERS FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1900

MINES.

Granite

County.....

Occupation.

NOTE. The Montana Ore Purchasing Co. and the mines owned and controlled by Hon. W. A. Clark, voluntarily reduced the hours of work from 10 to 8, for all miners employed in the properties during the summer of 1900.