The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-27

! There is at present an increasing
northwest and at the present time
many of the projects on improvements
are being delayed for the reason that
sufficient help cannot be procured to
carry on the work. The proposed new
railway lines in the country will call
for thousands of laborers and if the
roads are to be constructed as rapid
ly as planned help will have to be i'm
ported.
Where Men Can Find Work.
A partial list of the enterprises that
are calling for men or that are ready
to proceed with work on railroad ex-
tensions or the construction of irriga-
ton bitches was handed to The States
man.
McCabe Bros, building the railway
from Elgin to Wallowa, 16 miles, want
IS to 100 men at once.
Erickson & Peterson, who are to
build the line from Riparia to Lewiston,
can use 1900 men at good wages.
The Tacoma & Eastern, constructing
out of Tacoma, and the Sunnyside
branch between Seattle and Spokane
are calling for common laborers.
The o. R. & N. and Southern Pacific
companies have been short of men for
their section and extra gangs all sum-
mer.
The work of surfacing the new line
from Arlington to Condor has been de-
layed by shortage of laborers.
The proposed line from Wallowa to
Lewiston will increase the demand for
men.
The extension from Grangeville, 80
miles, is another enterprise that will
need many laborers.
When the extension of the Great
Southern from Dufur begins it will call
for workers, and the irrigation projects
in various places will absorb a large
force of labOrerS.
Northern Pacific Will Use Many.
When the Northern Pacific COM
mences work on the line on the north
bank Of the Columbia river from Ken
newick not less than 1000 men will be
absolutely essential to the carrying on
of work according to present plans.
Loggers are in demand at from 1925
to $2.75 a day, and hard to get at that
price.
! 1t is said that an electric line will
be built from Walla Walla to Lewiston,
and that will need a large number of
laborers
The Sumpter Valley road is building
on into central Oregon, and this also
bulls the labor market
| The Coos Bay road from Drain, to be
built by the Hartman system, will
soon be under way; the right of-way
men are now in the field and plans are
wei along for beginning work.
The Oregon Water Power & Rail-
way company is advertising for men
to work on the construction of it's i'm
mense concrete dam at Cazadero.
Symtn & Jones will want a big force
of men to carry on their government
contract at Cello
Twenty miles Of road is to be built
from Vancouver to Kennewic by the
Vancouver & Suburban.
The Oregon Traction company is to
from Vancouver to Washougal blythe
Grove, 26 miles
Even Alaska is coming down to the
states to obtain laborers on the Alaska
Central railway which now is under
way, and there are a half hundred
smaller projects that will utilize many
laborers during the ensuing year.
The o. r. G. N. Needs Men.
Chief Engineer Boschke of the O. r.
q n. company stated that his company
! mad been unable to inaugurate many
new enterprises on account of lack of
men.
In fact the common laborer appears
to be about the most important ele-
ment in the multitude of railway and
irrigation enterprises that have been
planned for the Portland territory,
many Of which are absolutely certain
of construction.
II is said that steps have been taken
by one heavy concern to send to Oma-