Evening star., 1933-07-16
STATES STUDY BUSINESS AND FARMING CODES TO BEN
SOARING PRICES
HELP FARMERS
IN MINNESOTA
Rise Likely to Offset
Drought-Burned
Short Crops.
BY C. d. LAHUSTON.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ST. PAUL, Mimi, July 15.-With
grain and dairy products soaring In
price to a point which will offset the
drought burned short crop in total farm
returns, Minnesota expects within a
few weeks to put between $4,000 and
rs, 900 men to work at seasonal employ
ment as a result Of the Federal public
works program.
The State administration headed by
Gov. Floyd B. Olson, Farmer-Laborite,
and the only third party Governor. has
prepared and submitted for approval
a public works program calling for $83,-
900, 900 in Federal financing.
With $10.500, 900 allotted to the State
for road aid, Highway Commissioner
N. w. Elsberg has announced plans to
place 10000 men on jobs to pave, grade
and otherwise improve State and Fed
eral trunk highways, rural feeder roads,
of which 4,4O0 miles were added to the
trunk system by the last Legislature, and
extensions of trunk routes through
cities and towns.
st. Paul and Minneapolis. the States
combined metropolis, have prepared to
apply for several million in aid for
financing $16,o00,O00 twin-cities me-
tropolitan drainage system, authorized
jointly by the Legislature and ordered
installed recently by the State Board
Of Health. Several thousand men will
be employed here, engineers estimate.
Postal Work Pushed.
Nearly another million and a half
have been authorized by the Federal
Government for post office construction,
most of the projects being those which
had already been approved by the
Hoover administration. but construction
on which had not been begun for lack
of funds
Two thousand men. 1t has been esti-
mated. will be put to work on these
post Office projects, in addition to hun
dreds already employed in framework
construction of st. Pauls new S2.700,-
900 Federal building and the $4,000. 900
post Office project underway in Mime
apolis.
State forestry. food control. reclama-
ton and wild life projects. coupled with
power developments. all of which expect
to obtain assistance from Federal grants
and loans, are estimated to employ
from 1000 to 1000 men. depending upon
the extent Of the projects for which
Federal funds will be authorized
At present about 5000 men and boys
either have been or are preparing to
be put to work on the limited -compen-
sation projects of the Federal refor-
estation and erosion camps.
Construction of dams, levies and jet
ties and dredging Of the Mississippi
River channel in conformity with the
upper Mississippi development has been
estimated by Army engineers to afford
facilities for placing several thousand
more men in the Minnesota Wisconsin
area on pay rolls.
Wide Gains Reported
Railroads. merchandising concerns
and factories all have reported gains in
the last month in both employment and
in business. with the outlook based on
the business attitude of the small COM
munities and lesser cities, continuing to
brighten despite the dry weather which
has cut the small grain crop by about
so per cent of the normal yield.
Iron mining has been resumed grad
ually, but with decidedly favorable ef-
fects upon employment and business
in the northern section of the State,
and last month the M. A. Hanna Co.
reported for the season gain Of six
fold in ore shipments over the same
period of last year.
Industry as well as State and Federal
projects contemplated are awaiting
anxiously the Federal Government S
final approval Of the proposed public
works enterprises with confidence that
when the signal is given the wheels Of
industry will start moving in step with
the advancing prices Of agricultural,
dairy and mining products.