Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-18
california
| WANTS WORKERS
|, Secure Them W. H. Murray is
Now on His Way East
RESOURCES OF THE STATE.
N. Past Few Years II Has Made
uood,rful Progress in All Dlrec-
aou,.-,Ien Are Now Needed.

n II Murray, representing the Cali
y. Promotion committee Of San
,lsco Is IN the city on his way
!, mr the purpose Of advertising the
.,nrcas and promoting the settlement
"a development of the Golden state,
!. gentleman says the state has great
"a for workers and cites in support
Nm, statement the fact that California
no longer composed only of cattle
,rrss, sheep pastures, great grain
.ls mines and numbering camps, but
t3w these features, particularly from
4, view point OF the worker, are over
s,sowed in Importance by vast areas
Z tsp twenty, forty, and l6O-acre or
Ards. BIZ vineyards, small fruit
Arms vegetable farms, dairles, hop
rr5s sugar-beet fields, oil districts
| "a varied industries requiring a great
III Of intelligent manual labor In
M wears farms Of from five TO 1860
'T,s producing fruits, cattle, hogs,
~n alfalfa. grain potatoes, poultry,
vj small fruits, are becoming more
mn,rous throughout the state, and 1t
l ms condition II Is desired to pro-
INla
M Murray says that during the past
AM years the dairy products OF the
s,te have increased at the rate OF ST.
ID per year; that the value of the
nm and oat crops has doubled with
bree years that the vineyard yield
table and wine grapes shows a large
rirly Increase: that It Is impossible to
nsk exactly Of the increase in yield
\ Vegetables and small fruits because
4 me lack of data; but enough Is
nDun to show an increase five times
ger that Of ten years ago; and that
ktvsen 1890 and 1900 the value of farm
tpducis rose from IS, O00,00O TO $751;
Ms0. or over 30 per cent. For 1902
d, value Of such products Is estimated
h exceed $4,000 600 He says the
nj product Of the state Is little more
ass half Of what il was ten years
|in The 0ld-style method In vogue
b California at that time Of raising
1ge on large ranges has so lost
|ramd In the past ten years that the
as has experienced an actual de-
| rass in the total value Of the cattle
| TklB Us boundaries.
During the past three years" says
| 4, gpntleman, "and notlceably the last
| Mf the land industries of California
aa felt most seriously the lack of
|hp The census figures speak elo-
| Usaily enough, yet conditions not in
dated make still more pressing the
eriad for farm help in the state. The
|Nlf who have come TO California
| hhng the past decade have mostly be-
me settlers They have taken I'M
-Noyed land and turned it into pro-
|Allye orchards, vineyards and gar
VS. While these We're young they
| v; able to care for them. but now
ass mutt farms are coming into full
Ahng ana the owners must have as
] siince 70 enable them to prepare their
lrr Tor market. The proper handling
De fruit crop each year has never
N question Of wages, II being i'm
|l1be to secure sufficient supply Of
|sl vest Of the Rocky Mountains.
Another factor, little noted and yet
4 reaching indeed, is a change in the
l0f conditions In California. The
eis'e exclusion act Is the cause.
!zr Vas time when the Chinese
ne TO California what the negroes
NJ . the south, They were the house
~ and the orchard help Of the state.
|MR Is no longer case Of the Chi
n must go, they are practically gone
L are not asked to come to Cali
.sa 10 compete with Chinese and |
.Nanese so-oalled cheap labor. The
l1 ana orchard owners OF California
awakened not only to the desIra-
~ ont to the absolute necessity OF |
Etlalng upon the same class of work. |
nal nave made eastern farmers |
psSiul-snd none other. From one |
y Inc state to the other, Judgment. |
.lnsnt and demand are alike uni. |
XXI ior competent white help whose |
NY snail be the acquisition Of homes |
another factor is moving powerfully ]