Parmers are scouring the town daily
for men to help put In the crops and
do other farm work, but with slight
success. Spokane employment agen
cies are being appealed to, but also
wlth poor success. Boys brought up
on the farms, and men about the
towns who ordinaurily will work on
the farms, are going to the lumber
woods and the mines, where they are
paid from $4.50 to $6 per day, while
the going scale of farm wages is from
$1.75 to $2 per day, with room and
board. Under the present prices of
th . e
tarmer can afford to pay, and he is
unable to compete with the lumber
c&mps and mines. Tins condition is
unfavorable to the further develop
the alr Z c U ry ' as a
tL llk ??Tu° n the far m compels the
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hein ' employ
While the scarcity of labor is felt
now, it is feared that it will be seri
ous when the hay and grain harvest
comes on, unless some of the other
activities In the Inland Empire close
down during the harvest season and
release some of the men.
Mr. Seivers anticipated a fair price
for the coming wheat crop believing
that the local market will be around
a rlnlTc. oWbuJ , around
«as and Nebraska ^ an "
-Bhortatrr in fborr ntàvrn naYi fbt
tte Z^ai ej ~^ and with
coast states ahould have some effprf
an tho nZ!' anouid have some effect
on the price. He also expects a heavy
export demand for Pkcific coast
wheat. especially from Japan,
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