The San Francisco call., 1906-06-16
TWENTY THOUSAND
BUILDING men At
WORK IN THE CITY
Promotion Committee Discovers
That Labor Does Not
Lack Employment.
Reclamation Agitation Brings
About an Additional
Appropriation.

According to the Investigations of the
California Promotion Committee 10000
men allied with the building trades are
at work on reconstruction in San Fran
cisco. This number does not include
those employed by the Spring Valley
Water Works or the various street car
companies of the city.
The figures obtained by this investi-
cation show that the following trades
have the numbers mentioned at work
Carpenters 1000, bricklayers 500, hod-
carriers 400. plasterers 400. cement
workers 500, electrical workers Qnside)
400, electrical workers Ofnemen) 500
elevator constructors 100, bridge and
structural iron workers 500, building
material team drivers 600, glasswork-
ers 200, house>miths AGO. hosting en-
gineers 75, laborers 1000, painters 400
paperhangers 600, sign writers 20O
metal roofers $50, felt and composition
roofers $50, shingiers 100, marble cut
ters and fnishers $50, wood, wire and
metal fathers 200, stationary engineers
3OO millmen 500, varnishers and polish
ers 200, plumbers 400, unclassified 1915,
The result of a meeting held last jan
uary was told in a telegram received
yesterday by Rufus P. Jennings, presi-
dent of the River Improvement and
Drainage Association of California,
from CONGRESSMAN j. N. Ginett. The
telegram said:
I'VE have just increased appropria-
ton for Typographical survey $4,000.
This will give us survey to Suisun
Bay"
For some years the various organiza-
tions of California which have had to
do with river Improvement and recla-
nation schemes have been working on
divergent lines without accomplishing
desired results In order to bring or
der and harmony President Jennings
called a meeting of representatives of
the Anti-Debris Association California
Miners Association, Sacramento Valley
Development Association, Drainage
Commission and the River Improvement
and Drainage Association This meet
ing was most harmonious. and it ap-
pointed an executive committee COM
posed of Rufus P. Jennigns (chairman), ),
S. B. Christy, A. A. Tregidgo, George
Pelatier, z. II. Benjamin., Marshall
Diggs and H. K. Johnson.
This committee Immediately took up
the question of acting on the sugges-
ton of Engineer C. E. Grunsky in
report to Director Walcott of the Unit
ed States geological survey. in that the
matter of reclamation of overflowed
lands, irrigation and the problem of
handling mining debris be thoroughly
Investigated by the Department of the
Interior through the geological survey
and that survey of the Sacramento
Valley be made and certain data Sc
cured in order to properly present the
matter to Congress.
John w. Ferris was sent as delegate
to the Hivers and harbors congress held
in Washington, and the California dele
cation in the national Congress was
induced to take the matter up. The
telegram announcing the result of this
work is most satisfactory to all inter-
ested, as it indicates that the work of
surveying the valley preliminary to the
work of protection and reclamation will
now be done at an early date.
Ten thousand men can find employ
ment on the Western Pacific Railroad,
according to letter received yesterday
by Chairman Rufus p. Jennings of the
California Promotion Committee from
Vice President Virgil G.. Bogue of the
railway company The letter highly
commends the plan followed in having
various employers OF labor throughout
the State notify the Labor Commission
er of their requirements. and suggests
sthat any one DESTROYS of getting work
can do SO by applying TO the contrac-
tors of the road, either the Utah Con-
struction Company. Oroville, or the
E. B. & A. L. Stone Company Oakland.