The houses are for the most part low and cheaply built, and the streets are narrow, badly paved, irregular and dirty.
The whole reason for setting up a food co-op is to purchase good foods cheaply.
Pig iron is manufactured cheaply because of the low price of fuel; in 1907 the value of pig iron manufactured in the state was $6,454,000.
This type of house, cheaply constructed, is in general use for raising grapes for market.
In 1898 also the municipal franchise, hitherto confined to ratepayers, was greatly widened; in 1900 the English system of compensation to workmen for accidents suffered in their trade was adopted with some changes, one of the chief being that contested claims are adjudicated upon cheaply and expeditiously by the same arbitration court that decides industrial disputes.
