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about Austria and Hungary, are locally called " Hunyaks " and the 

 Italians " Dagoes." A " white/' in range parlance, is a Swede or any 

 one of the higher class of laborers who works steadily at his job. The 

 employees in the offices of the mining companies, as well as the citizens 

 generally, fall under the latter appellation. It is doubtful if the Euro- 

 pean homes of these people, almost the only people evidently who are 

 attracted, at present, to this class of work, are as filthy as the condi- 

 tions with which they are surrounded here, conditions which are a 

 menace to the health of any community. 



Creek where Sewage Empties. 



We find, on the range, houses, boarding houses and others, swarm- 

 ing with flies. We find garbage cans, old, dirty stables sheltering 

 miserable cows and horses, with the accompanying manure pile, and 

 the dangerous open privy close to dwellings; dish water and other filth 

 deposited in close proximity to wells, dairies that are unholy, so hor- 

 rible are the conditions of their environment; sidewalks covered with 

 the expectorations of all sorts and conditions of men, through which 

 and over which filth walk hordes of flies in summer and early fall; 

 alleys there are, too, the filth in which can hardly be described. Last, 

 but by no means least, we note absence of screens in the windows and 

 doors of dwelling houses, or, if there are any screens at all in a house, 

 the good they might do is nullified by the presence of other screenless 



