The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-17
4 The HARVEST FIELDS.
lam MEN VOW BUSY IN THE IN
LAND EMPIRE.
sesssa Earlier Than Usual which
a.eslted Mt First in q Scarcity
- aeIp-workers Vow Appearing,
crsp VIII BE Easily Garnered.

~-.s4sl Dispatch TO the Post Intelligence.
SrTzyILLE, July 1s.-Harvesting in
xs-.rs county f. now on in full blast.
49, little threshing has been done as
- hut headers are TO be seen at work
-evvhere. Some delay has been caused
- he scarcity OF hands and the usual
S;esrulties TO be overcome in getting the
eschinery In good working order. but
~3K favorable weather the greater por-
~ cf the great wheat crop will be on
~ ranrket in the next few weeks.
fH1 scarcity Of help is due TO some ex-
NJ 10 the early commencement Of har-
~ this year compared with previous
ssssss and the much greater demand for
~ ali over Eastern Washington, ow-
~ 10 both increased acreage and yield.
r. usual influx OF harvest hands into
r; section being about August !. The
~ demand for help, however. has now
Sfone quite generally known, and the
1161Is are crowded daily with men ar
3Vlps from all directions; and II the in.
M the past week. the problem Of help
mi have been satisfactorily solved. Tho
VSosa paid are from 81 to - a day, ac-
eoS7inr to the class OF work, and tho
S5sneer IL sure OF a job for the entire
Nsvesting season, which will last at
jaost forty days. as soon as he lands In
~ county.
Noshsrs anxious 10 get their machines
1nfted, made canvass of all the trains,
- night and day, in search OF men.
IVA the festive hobo. who wouldn't
- car truck and other places on the
hV1yfts. and offered job at his own
mn. In many instances young men en-
pjoytd In business houses about town
wv thrown up their positions and gone
"a 10 help I'LL out short crews, and the
~ Of the thresher and combined har-
yooler may be heard in every section OF
~ vast wheat belt.
&c. -
- others, has already been cut and
Ooacked The FIRST wheat marketed this
enoeon was brought 10 Ritzville yester-
~ BY. Thomas T. Boyd. and sold to ID.
1oasd from load by the Tacoma Grain
Company yesterday averaged i4s pounds
Extensive preparations are being made
v the grain men and miilers TO receive
~ added to the mammoth headquar-
tep at Odessa, and besides the wnre-
houses at RitzyiIie. Lind. Washtucna and
leeA grain will be bought at OFT Broth
~ mill at this place, and the new mill
y Paha. large force of men are at
Wofk on the mill at Paha, which is being
etected BY Cummin Brothers. OF Cheney.
. wI s n f pyss io ,S. sn.ass .,
= re next few days by fivs men alone
psei6ine near by.
!. he acreage this year has been greatly
.sssased by homestead fiings. and large
~ the yield is far ahead OF last year
~ total number of acres OF land la the
eo1nty assessed this year IL 73T.742, and
~ total Improved acreage IL 227, 1876 as
tpnpared with i0s,isI last year. The val.
- Qf the acreage this year IL assessed
q .7a against 81. 223 $50 last year The
ehi value 81 acreage and improvements
~ year IN ~. go, 64s against 81 3si, ok2 last
ymf or the 227,is5 acres under cuitiya-
~ this year. u In safe to estimate that
q least one-haif. or over 100 0od acres IL
y wheat. From this may he gained some
~ OF the 1900 crop and what II means
y Adams county.