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Show Employment for Mechanics. The statement in Thurday morning's morn-ing's Herald, that mechanics could rind employment in this Territory, caused some comments yesterday among goutlemen of that class, and the assertion was made that at the present tune two hundred mechanics in this city were unable to obtain work at their trades and were obliged to turn their attention to other labor or be idle. The article in question was not intended to apply to the present the dullest season in tho year. With the severe winters here all work that can be suspended is stopped, and men aro thus necessarily necessar-ily thrown out of employment for a time. In regard to two hundred mechanics being now idle or working at common labor, we are surprised that the number is so small; it is a much better showing then we expected. expect-ed. Jf only two huudred mechanics in this city are now out of employment, employ-ment, when the Spring building and improvements begin there will be three or four times as much work on hand as can bo performed by the skUlod labor now in our midst. The Herald has ever worked for tho ' good of the laboring clems, and proposes propo-ses to do so in the future, believing the bone and sinew of a country is its ! best capital. And in answering the California mechanic's questions, think wo but stated a fact in saying that skilled labor was in demand in this Territory. |