Evening star., 1923-06-08
WESTERN FARMERS
!. NEED HARvESTERS
Wheat Now Ready to Be Cut
in SouthWest-ProduCerS
of Silver Confer.
BY. j. c. ROYLE.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, June S.-The advance
guard of the army Of migratory work.
ers gathering for the wheat harvest be-
gan their invasion of the southwest to-
day. The wheat crop in that section
has advanced to a point where growers
are calling for thousands of men. These
workers will be employed at wages
ranging from 81 to $5 a day in Texas,
Oklahoma and Kansas and may receive
more as they work north toward the
Dakotas and northwest.
While record rainfalls are endanger-
ing crops in Kansas, only the first
growth of alfalfa has been hurt so far.
Wheat is all headed out in that state
and the crop as a whole looks fairly
well. although insect and weed damage
is noticeable in some counties.
Farmers Are Prosperous.
"All the agricultural products of the
south, with the exception of rice, are
being grown on a profitable basis at
present" according to Charles de B.
Claiborne, head of one OF the largest
sugar estates in Louisiana and a
widely known banker. This means
the employment of labor to the fullest
extent an increased freight movement
and greater purchasing power on the
part of the public, which in turn, will
be reflected in increased purchases of
products of the fields. forests and mines.
The only real cloud on the hori-
zcn is the unwillingness of labor to
give full return for the increased
wages which workers are receiving.
The present minor lull in business
will pass. There has been no infiae
ton or overexpansion, but healthy
growth. and business is on a sound
er basis in the south than for three
years past"
Textile Industry Expanding.
Cotton manufacturers, meeting in
Atlanta today. brought statistics
showing their industry to be in the
best shape in years. with plants
steadily expanding. Shutdowns. they
satisfactory business, but to put
plants in repair. The Kinkaid mills
of Griffin, Ga, which recently cam
Pteeed th 9 a working arransement with
chusetts, have started work on large
additions. and the Lanier interests
have formed a million dollar cor
poration to take over and enlarge
the rRe r3RPetsaa eatioa Ala for mills ths woolen
tile business is excellent" said
Charles j. Webb of Philadelphia,
large wool dealer and manufacturer.
All mills IN IhlS section are running
and carpet mills are we'll supplied
with orders. New clips of wool are
commanding high figures. which fact
would. seem to assure stable prices
for products for many months to
come. Mills are now running upon
stocks acquired at prices below cur
rent values and have supplies for
about two months"
Silver Producers TO Confer.
Representatives. of leading mining
interests of the country. at a meeting
just concluded in this city, have OUT
lined "a plan to stabilize the price of
silver. now that purchases by the
director of the mint, under the Pitt
man act, which provided a price of
81 an ounce, have ceased This plan,
it is known, contemplates indirect
control of the silver output throue h
the cooperation of individual pro-
duCerS.
1t is hoped by this means legally
TO influence the price on the open
markets 80 that mines may be op-
Grated at profit. The results Of
the New York conference proba ably
Will be presented to a meeting of
western operators and large pro-
ducers at San Francisco June Ii, I2
and 3. according to NJ. B. TombIfn,
secretary of the Colorado Metal
Mining Association.