The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-10-14
UNUSUAL
DEMAND
FOR LABOR
IN CANON
BUSINESS CONDITIONS SHOW A
MARKED IMPROVEMENT, MARK
ETs OF ALL KINDS OPENING
UP.
APPLE PICKERS ARE SCARCE

At present there is an exceptional
ly brisk demand for labor in Canon
City and the surrounding territory
and there is no necessity for idle
ness by men who are willing to work.
A representative of one Of the big
gest employers of labor here stated
few days ago that never before in
many years of business in Canon City
had his firm found it SO difficult to
procure men as it had during the
last few weeks and others engaged
in commercial enterprises are having
a similar experience.
The request for apple pickers by
the orchardists about town and the
demand for help by the ranchers gen
orally to harvest their crops, is, of
course, largely responsible for the
scarcity of labor in the local market
just now, but does not entirely ac-
count for the situation. There are
various reasons for it; one of the most
important being that business condi-
tons are improving throughout the
state and markets are opening up for
produce of all kinds for which there
has been practically no sale for many
months.
The Diamond Fire Brick company
has orders booked for its product
that will require it several months to
fill and is desirous of putting on
another shift, but thus far has not
been able to procure the men neces-
sary to increase its output. Adver-
tisements for labor are appearing
daily in the want columns of this
paper and the bulletin board at the
Y. M. C. A. contained this morning a
notice that twenty-five men would be
given employment as apple pickers
on application at the ofnce there.
Nearly all lines OF commercial en-.
terprise are beginning to feel the ef-
fects of better times and the request
for help to carry them on is growing
steadily
Most of the coal mines Of the Can
oA Sity ul6tAACt arc Duby anu the men
who work in them are getting good
wages as a rule. The Colorado
Fuel & Iron company at Pueblo is
running its foundries and mills at
capacity and there are few, If any.
men in enforced idleness in that city
The company has recently received
orders for steel for railroad construc-
ton in Alaska. the Philippine Islands
and China and seems to be entering
in career as a manufacturer of steel
and iron products in the Asiatic coun
tries and the overseas trade in other
quarters of the globe. Mining in the
Cripple Creek district has better
outlook at present than for lone
period in the past and a marked in.
crease in mining activity there is
promised. In fact. a stimulus has al
ready been given to industry there
and men desiring work in the district
have little difficulty in procuring q
job.
Business conditions in Texas ,ac.
cording to DR.. G. A. fawter who has
just returned to Canon City from
there. are more prosperous than they
have been at any time for several
years, and reports of a corresponding
character are reported from many
other sections of the country. The
planters OF the South are getting
good prices for their cotton and
markets are opening up in Europe for
the billion-bushel American wheat
crop and the three-billlon- -bushel corn
crop of our farmers. Money in the
banking centers of the country is be-
ginning to seek investment in pro-
ductive enterprises and everywhere
the business situation is becoming
more satisfactory and encouraging.
The freight business of the Denver &
Rio Grande Railroad company is
much more gratifying now than it
has been for long time and the con-
dition prevails with the Santa Fe and
other lines of transportation. Colo
rado Is commencing to feel the thrill
of new order of things and Canon
City is benehtting by it.
At the regular meeting OF the board
OF education OF Canon City last Thurs
day night committee representing
the chamber OF commerce appeared
before II and asked that II an
emergency arose by reason OF threat
ening weather II would be willing to
close the high school for week In
S,gAar that tha at,,dawt. ,.twh. A.