Show HOW KANSAS IC HAS S GAINED G. POPULATION For several years cars past th the farmers of ot Kansas have needed many more harvest hands than they found within the thc borders of or their state state rind and have secured them b by the aid of or an nn organization which gave cavo ver very low railroad rates to men who would come coni a aa all laborers or would come with teams and help through gh the harvest season And when the harvest is over the state of oC I Kansas ansas has kept a great ent many of ot the men who camo came for the transient employment V The Tho process is ls simple Kansas farmers Carmels raise more wheat than they can harvest As the sea season on of or gatherIng gatherIng gatherIng gather- gather Ing the thc grain approaches they tell their state organization tion which includes members of or the agricultural board I how man many hands and how many teams will vIll be needed in each o of the several sc wheat counties In some Rome casesa cases a a. county count will report that it needs two thousand men and two hundred teams The state tato organization has agents I In different parts of or the country farther cast east and they enlist the men make certain the pay which pay which Is good and get Jet railroad fare arc for one cent a mile for tor pa passengers J and a n. corresponding rate for or the teams s by freight Tho The Thoa a association pays paS the difference between this rate and the amount demanded by the railroad companies under the law Jaw The Time new are arc directed b by officials of ot the tho association and the right number goes coes to each of the claiming districts I This pr process has been going golD on for Cor several year earr C I V t. t V V V though the organization is rather more coherent and effective this year Mr than ever before When former harvests have ended a percentage e of or the now men has remained In Kansas Of or cour course o most of them have n In other othor parts of or tho the country and armit go 10 back In to thorn them But flut thousands of capable working men are arc annually added to the population of ot Kansas And It Is doubtful If It there thero is a better device for or securing securing tn ing desirable citizens These new men can cnn work They y arc are self supporting 8 and have enough eno to help them m take e a n. chance chanco They Thoy ar am aro strong and follows willing to In labor and able ahlo ta to boar bear somo noes If It they be he married tho they thoy settle t in tho the most places the they can get and sen send for their families If It thc they thoy are single sincle they thoy marry Reports from Crom I Kansas an S f newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers are arc to the effect that lint Kansas farm girls are becoming be he- coming coining the wives wl of the these e harvest t hands hand nail and that both parties to the new relation are the better belter for It Many Ian men of some somo property in Illinois and anal Missouri and Indiana take advantage antage of or the new proposition and go to Kansas In harvest time into simply Imply to get a n. new location on th the tho best lest possible terms after their transient engagement engagement engage engage- ment is end ended d. d These men have havo families and property In their old homes They make ale sale there and at once brin bring substance in to tho Kansas appraisement totals There Thele Is Just a suggestion of or profit for Utah in this incident I If we wo could have a big fair here backed by bythe bythe bythe the government go as other big fairs of or tho the past have been advertised ad with all nil the prestige o of such an enterprise and could bring from all over the country countr nn and all overlie over o the lie world the people who want to set see Utah we could k keep ep a lot hot of the best of them We e could Increase our I slate state population by hy thousands of or the most desirable of or citizens We c could in a n. year do more moro to fill tho the stat stats with men capable of helping helpin in the tIme states state's development and willing to cast their lot In In with t the e people who ho have hn begun the splendid work than titan the accretions of a a. decade would be under ordinary conditions Wouldn't a national fair bo be a good thing for Cor Utah 1 |