Show I 1 4 m I W t 4 Y 0 f J JM M W 4 tz A TiB rs S TZU 1611 y 1 r r Ir r f f 1 l r f L j CAMP LIGHT U UTHE 1 shy Tn TW U s THE FORE 7 ti Vl i 1 r i r t j THE JACK RABBIT COUNTY COUNTRY Written for tor the Deseret D Now Notts NOI by I I ry 1 W ITH th the coming or Col Brent rent trouping wl ready foras sum Hum Hummer mol mar Thirty or for fIll forty for forty ty t thousand men mell mobilized In ht Rpm Ron march north oust oRal and nn out like n a fun tan to In supply the labor ed 1 to 10 pick the crop rop on Oil thousands of ot orchards and nn throughout limo tho stile Thero IH III s more than 1111 enough work wRIting for tM every Mil man In him tole big hiS army California Donate of about 30 of ot fruit treos and vines In tip full fl td be a g There o me mu over es In t vl oo 1 s it n d the hop lo a Jl hlll cover tons of or of ot nerod Jn UI nn on your year over tons 1011 of fruit 1110 out of r Ihl over tolls tonn of ot wine Wille b Deer er and brandy unit and over aver tons of vegetables IP No tin rut army of ot Inherent In la Is required to do pick hili vast crop crOll tor for tho the markets t i of ot It tho Iho Jn world Indeed enough teen men ran cnn he be hits to bi hu fed to 10 mho Iho pigs nil ull over owr tho Iho state by IJ the hundred unit unil tho thu tones Them Thero In Is no other Ilko o 0 It U upon earth Tho labor loboI army urmy arm collected mud en enrolled rolled by the tho labor south of ot shoot Sun San during the tho nil hell Humbert numbers nt III mho outset jar pur oooo men but bul thorn there lira are to tu be drown upon as Jl the tho picking eu on method of or formation movement cloudy closely tho l of ot troops IOOS They Thoy lire are divided In Into Into li lito to tour mala on Oil they illY out lU train torn Run Han the northern the till valley valluy lIu the San Salt Milley Utley and the southern These Thello division are again divided roughly Into squads and IVOn von nil nR lar large e nn ns OI battalions 1 each moving mollIA together to 10 HH 1111 own oli oh point Then there therm are 1110 the Ir h regular ni its there lire are with all 1111 lell i the the Irresponsible Irre bands 1 n without bane halll free freelane lanc Ilg for Cor loot and tho the love of ot Adventure In n small email dingy ounce on Oil to lo street Iret kite nit n little grubby man who Were W le the Ihl labor romi oa d at or armed men would hold holl the IIII rank of or t There are several of or his kind kl 1111 mud And An between them pleat they thoy tho the tho Hummer summer campaign campaigns In Jui their ItI as H real reHI military trader do In lu Inthe luthe the urn are his hili de camps follow fellows t n who olio lewd lend the tha coil H amid He lie Ito calls In ln one on rind and given Kivell hits his something like this Ihla take lute the SOO dittos down to In Hsu Jose Joae tonight Murphy hy Up U nt nl burg want w 1 hy ny Y KO IJ Ix tie ifo moving Jr r s your o tickets r rI t tI I f thought I 1 avas nA to 10 take loke to CO Hunks ocr Oer to km elms tonight Into doln tint that j i R Re Ill 1 11 s Jeal Im 1111 Hell Iles r t tn red e lt If In III n Jo so ea he ho cant go 6 o there II do doThe The 1 alile al x with tIli t a n growl to time the In III the mho outer olnee attire are several hundred husky men blanket rolls rolla mill tin till plates and pots daft hIng about Ibo ll their por Porous on Tho The runner says some something thing to Us them In III n 1 foreign aul the tho thoy follow tollow him down time tho sheet all In n a long column tho 1110 depot Few Irow of ihl hY by on thick the street t them loose and thou then only With the Iho words Hello Cherries are getting ripe in Choral Clarn These men pro are the advance corps of the Ihl summer RUmmel names armies of nt nut fruit pickers I the tho hundreds every duty day dl they tho march down 11 tho the narrow streets of old where they have bare been beell Interim wintering since November nil In one direction to 10 the Iho ferries 1 and the Fourth street and Townsend street railroad do 1101 pot rho Tho lower Alecks deelus of at the tho tho the largest terries In III America aro crowd crowll ed Nt with them It taken many thousands thou sands of ot neon men to the biggest cherry crop crOll In III tho mho world ripen ripon first HO ko tim tho cherry brigade Is Ie tho the first on ml foot fool Thus they stream on oil every oer day ellI to 10 occupy the numerous cherry districts for tor the next month the tho Hanta Clara Churn Valley Lorenzo Han and a 1 imps hUll tired dred other districts At Al the depot at III those places pInceR the themen men melt ore are stet met by h the tho local ranchmen n aid 1111 tanners farmers n tingle one ono of whom sometimes marches ort oft as its many as DR MX men mell v 1 11 1 t tI 01 I i 1 1 rr f 1 r J 1 Tho rho Irregulars are n re an nM early In Iu tho the Held as its the men melt of nf the army of fruit pickers picker ur They rhey ate nto kent by hy no hail body hili tile they have enough of f the tho pre previous stammers lImmer earnings loft to equip themselves for tOl cam campaign Hut Han see etc lI o them mav mavInA tilt InA alone the tho streets from frum the south of ot 1 street dl where tho the cheap lodging houses am are toward tho tilt ferries in ht groups of ot from ran two to live but hu t often otten alone Ilone They ore Are easily costly from ordinary or oven even from runt tho time regulars They wear straw nr or slouch louch tints hats hi brand new now brown or nr blun over oven mills alia and nud jumper carry tow new clean blan blankets blankets Might blight new tin tit mod and pans and their tares facen are nrc clean clenn shaven and Inti i glowing with the prospect of ot the th com ehm comIng Ing hie adventures No Nn tramps tramp I are they but hut men able nulo to 10 pity pay their way waymen 0 men who have hayl lived through the tho winter on 7 n wool week pending their time In hl public libraries and reading rooms These Irregulars scatter over all nil the tho country In III the tho depot If It you get near nral neara a II group you may heat some such lIch con COli vermilion ait as tilts this Toll ye yo what Bill 1111 1 I dont doat go RO much on nn Fresno It gets trets elK too blamed hot hotl Think Ill take the Iho hive train for tor and hit hilt tho the trail trull front from there Why Wh I 1 you jou ou was Mas comma with us ue So Ho I t was nuts but hUI Ive changed my mind Ill lane have this the north for tor or mine Ill hit lilt hita a n 1 good Job on sonic Home rev cow ranch till rapo ln then Ihen Ill Vii h up the season at nl JI In III the hop hOl yards Well ell 11 HO so long old hap chap Wore Were ort off for far the till Jackrabbit jack when ne n cheap Were going over Into tubo an nn if It we Ire t ilont dont like It II theres Tulare right below u tie IS See Hee ye 0 nt at Jacks next November doing up UI lino Ilan the tho country the roads nio ma Ol till lull of or these th summer At night they the sleep leep under the stars for It never rains In that season sea MU ea son and their campfires light up tip the puns and redwood forests They rile rho buy their meals in Um the small towns or o nt mil the farm houses i fin rho ranchers amid farmers are BIP looking honking for tOl them they seldom walk long for tor a n Job In ill nay any part of ot the country unless they decide Ilee l to take n good long tramp through the thA toot root hills hili hI before toll down seriously for tor the summer Iy Ily June and the Ihl beginning of July Jill tho thu Irregulars have 1111 ami amid found their Jobs Then commies coined the liar hal ty vesting or of apples penches prunes n API t cots nectarines pears other othir mils runts Men Mell now atos 11 ow la III demand tI Telegraphic order come from nil All parts of ut the coun room try Iry to the Sot San Francisco Mlles and ond ont then thell begins tho the real Invasion i lon Ono One col r ilp II 1 1 Into tutu limo tho northern seethe ell II Ever Y to hero on the dusty dusl roads s you meet wagon needs loads of ot u men pion or rump com lot lles of ot n f them n on of tho tto I match march heading lut ter smila limo tho vast t n at stretches of or fruit or In tn the tho foot toot hills Under Ruder the tho fruit trees men much are 1110 busy In groups fil TU ing In boxes boxen box carrying ladders and has bas and Another army goes up lip the tho lI to Valley where pears peaches plums and 1111 apples aro 1110 big hi and in plenty The river boats arC aro crowded with them and amid thou their blanket t trolls rolls Another other contingent crowds the doily daily trains down Into Inlo the San Ran tho the dry alkali 1111 1111 jaek country where inhere the tho vital vast orchards are ore Irrigated the tho sun Is III hut hot and 1111 the work I ork Is hard but hill the pay IIA Along through the Bantu fan ta Clara Val le Ic ley up ti Into the Coast lounge foot hulls hills H win in more mure bands and companies towards the rising slopes the thu valleys mad and the lie countless wherever In III tact fact there are aie hidden orchards of olives pears apricots and other fruits which need to 10 bo be picked and boxed hox and for tor Or eastern and European markets The Tho cherry IB Is over but the thousand of cherry ehen pickers have hll molted Into the Ihl big main army Then If It tho thou Is n a good Ro d one coils calls come to San Francisco for tor morn more men hilt but they cannot be he answered lodging house Is empty amply save for Cor n few habitual ill loafers In the papers appear advertisement in III big type for tor men but hUI they aro not n t to 10 be lIe haul had oa ages ruse ilse ll e until they cnn can go ijO I no nn higher At this time limo you yon stay may ma travel through the tho fruit legions mid and see HOC thousands of ot acres of orchards where the pigs run wild devouring such luCh fruit trull an 1114 anthe the tho average Ierne easterner never neer tastes There are aro no t in men to pick Plent pie It nail Anti box It II I P alts rind mid 1 peaches such mich an ns lire ire ox II In country tabs fairs mellow and drop lt ut to tu the thc 1 beneath Thorn Thu n I are ArC fitly fifty thousand fruit pickers sent seat bored over oel the country cOlin try but they lira aio not lIot enough Then Theil comes comas the grain harvesting Just t nn the Iha fruit t season wanes unites ulle but hUt that lint does not 1101 take Ilke up lip ninny many men for machinery nod header bender II do du must most of th Ih work Last bust of ot 0 nil all gripe mud hop Imp picking Up Ui on nn the tho eyed ered hills kills are the white touts tents of or the pickers laid out with military lilt 0 1 preci precision sion The he work begins nt nl down and ends mil fil nt sunset Wagons rattle up till oath and down clown the avenues collecting tile the that tho Ilm have tilled 11 lied nUl car rind lied out to the Iho roadway I on na nn nation lion tion and II III race Is 18 l g blue tho workers Thero There lure aio Italians creeks and Turks to 10 whom the limo work worle l Is If I not nol new and there thero are Norwegians Finns Inn who me tiro Just beginning In the hop yards the work across th Iha like destroying de n a black tine line II liE sweeping the green before It II std and leaving the blown I lown In hit October comes a n 1 lull Time Tho work H is slacking then each big ranch glues given givena a n barbecue and a II dancu to wind up 1111 the peu on Th These n festivals tell II II are lire usually plc l h because Mch nationality gives Its stamp to thorn thou The Tho dale lan dnn e the Gorman sing Si ug and tho limo Play piny stringed they end cHI up wild willI Next day 10 the roads IO to 10 the Ih Fin aio 1110 II it liner lined Ii nod with wilh time the r 1 II a workers dusty luHt and unshaven but hUt trim ti their pockets full Cull of or gold gall 01 1 and silt r It Is IR tho Iho beginning of ot the tho rein it r hUi hua retreat Is 18 glorious Th mm men march In In to order ordee th thit t ihry may slug together mils n ns ni at n most all nil over th the tho noun ty J The rime Irregulars II too ton ir r treat nil all directions tram from little farina arias old dairies Ond Join the Ih mule main army o In Ron inn HIP Iho first fw h w liP ati pear from the nearby ran ii s i then th n time the terries begin to 10 cart eary ell 1 the dusty soldiers of or labor across the buy IMY in I P Market they Ih come como by h hundred i IJ every day and every overy hour tor for w 11 wall k kall all nil making towards their th lr old iua 1111 f I n rs the Ihl cheap lh OI lodging Louses hOIl eR ally they aY are HW swallowed allowed up t foi Cor O I th Ihl y dh u a n pear Thoy merely ut Bhae and 1 lilt tl put tn Il in KUIM alf alfor um I 4 of or start clothes Next day it n 1 v ou nU i 1111 ri I only till recognize thorn them by hy their tares faces In a 1 month oven this H Is I gone goUl and tho the tramping army of or I 1 borers has been up ill III by h Ihs tha big bis city Hut the till men mon ore orl all nil there renting on their rending leading enjoying cheap seats aNt m Ih tin theaters attending lectures Iud and tak hk hob ing walks along the tho crowd d I time Iho ou where w hero they rum cnn fi se RC e th Ie fello ama lit In the tho higher walks alks of life There Thero avo men who have hll dmn Ih h for Co a n I of ot seasons and who echo ht will Ill do It Il of seasons fO lIMn nut Hut Is III thu tho only country share It can cnn be done it |