The Alaska daily empire., 1917-08-25

here" said MT. Thane.
 More men are employed in Gas sineau Channel mines than in any other section of the Territory, with the possible exception of the Govern ment railroad, which is temporary proposition. The mines here run the year around the furnish work tor as many men in the winter time as in the summer. since the surface work has been completed.
 Get Their Stake Here
 Men working in the canneries, 1t their own prospects in the hills, 1t summer fishing, farming and homesteaders who want stake to tide them over the balance of the year, come to Juneau and are given work in the mines here.
 When one of the nearby smaller mines want men, they come to Ju neau. When a cannery of fishing company wants men, they send to Juneau. When logging camps want men they send to Juneau.
 For several years past it has been the reglaur practice of the Jualin, Chichagoff and other mines
 n this section to keep regular em olayment agents in Juneau to send hem men as needed. The mines at Whitehorse, when they want men send an employment agent to Juneau l< o1y hn ran,lirnd rnynhnr Send For Juneau Men "The big Granby mines at Had 'ey. within 30 miles of Ketchikan
 send frequent calls to Juneau for men, and the Sulzer mine sent a nan north to secure a certain mum Der of men from here. Logging camps operating all over the First Division send here for their men md during the past summer the canneries of this section have been
 irving for men from here. At the
 start of the canning season special boat was sent to Juneau from Klo wack, within few miles of Ketchi- kan, the big fishing center, for a
 crew of fishermen and cannery work CTS.
 "The result is that laborers from Ill parts of the Territory, as fall
 comes on and their summer jobs are
 finished, come to Juneau, on the
 .hance that they can either get work with the big mines here, or else a ,hance to get to the outside camps clx xxrsth hnr If lime.
 AS a general rule, in this vic,
 nifty, the mines have had plenty of 1elp during the fall and winter
 months, but this year peculiar condition has arisen and we stand n need of 200 or 250 men at once. Workingmen from all parts of the Territory can be assured of work 1ere within few days of their landing.
 Natural Distribution Point With the big mines here to at ract the men and offer them work tt all times, Juneau will continue be the distributing point for la DOT for the coastal section of Alaska | 'or all time to come, and on account ,f it's natural and central location in a better position to provide work at points close to Juneau, than
 my other point"
 The above statements made by Mir
 Thane are borne out by facts. Re ,ently an employment agent from Whitehorse was in Juneau looking Or a number of miners and during he summer call was sent from
 Dawson by the Yukon Gold Company | Tor men to work during the sum ner dredging season.
 | At the start of the fishing season | his year the KlOwack cannery sent | | man north and then sent can 1ery tender after a crew of fisher
 nen, all of whom were secured here
 During the summer the call was constantly coming in from the can
 neries for help and more help, even | he older boys of Juneau left and
 made good wages during the season | o help fill the vacancies in the ranks If workers.
 During the past three years hard
 " a day passed but that call has | not been issued for from one to | fifty men to work at almost any
 rade from common mncker to ma | :hinist or accountant