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Show Railroads Find It Impossible to Supply Demand for Day Laborers. DELAYS CONSTRUCTION ON WESTERN PACIFIC Men Desert the Railroads in Preference for "Work in the Mines. Progress on tho Western Pacific during dur-ing tho last week has been unusually slow, this on account of tho scarcity of labor. Stcol Is now laid westward for over twenty miles, considerably beyond Garfield, and the grado Is completed many miles ahead, in fact to tho edgo of the desert. When tho labor market will assume its normal condition is a mattor of conjecture, but there Is not likely to J bo any betterment until tho crops aro harvested. Laborers Deserting Railroads. The condition of tho labor market Is general, not confined to any particular locality. A dispatch from Los Angeles says tho various railroads centering thoro aro greatly In need of day laborors. It Is impossible, tho companios claim, to supply the demand. In the mining districts dis-tricts of Arizona and Nevada the rail- road laborers desert daily to enter tho mines, where tho promises of greater wealth are held out. Mines Are Attraction. The Salt Lako road recently started a hundrod Japanese on a train from Los Anseles to their Las Vegas-Tonopah extension, ex-tension, but so many of the men got off tho train at mines along the route that but twenty arrived at tho point of destination. desti-nation. At another point tho laborers labor-ers just quit in a body to look for other employment. Tho officials also claim that tho exclusion law prevents their getting tho labor they require. |