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Show CEDAR BOYS VISIT IDAHO. I find That (he Reports of Work .in That State and .Wyoming .ARE GREATLY OYER ESTIMATED. I A Fine Country. People Prosperous Jr , and Well Contented. Every thing - -T Done on a Large Scale. Owingr to the reports that have reached " our city of the fine opportunities for work In the state of Idaho, a party of our young men. numbering ten or twelve started out on the 10th of lust month to obtain employment and Incidentally In-cidentally to Tlew thu country. Taking ' the cars at Lund the most of the party vcnt In company as far as Salt Lake ' Ch where thry separated, one or more . - remaining In the city, and in that vlcln y- -'artofthd company continued their P journey on Into Idaho and reached Shoshone Sho-shone City in duo timo where they ex- ' pected to And work at shearing sheep, as they had been informed that there was plenty ot that to do. Thev found the town partially inundutcd'by the overflowing of Wood Kiver, the early shearing already completed, the late shearing not yet begun, and about Ave men to every job waiting for it to com-mence. com-mence. They learned that there Is a large number of sheep to bp sheared in Wyomlng but there the war is on between be-tween capital and labor, the shearers are on striKc aaU are organized to keep up the prices. As they did not have timo nor Inclination to wait till the disputes aro adjusted, they decided that 1 their best plan would be to icturn home. f&S' ' "Thl v'art of litem d!d,r,i,ot-.W- """ into'Shoshune. and they did not sec him afterwards. Another of them had found no work when they left, but as he went into the country to look up a home as well as obtain employment, he concluded to look for the home and take the employment when it presented itself. Our boj 8 found that the policy . of employers seems to be to All the V r country with men In search of work r and thus obtain the udvuntago that is always to be obtained where the supply of labor exceeds the demand. At an employment advertising agency where they applied in Salt Lake City, and whet o they had heard the custom was 'T to engage men to go luto Wyoming and , v Idaho to work and furnish them trans portation to the place where the work was, they were Informed that If they would agreo to shear 50 sheep a day and stuv with it. they would bo clvcn ""?w "txuncportutiou and guaranteed two M months work. Our boys informed the J gentleman that they would guarantee to shear 100 sheep per day from the day of their arrlyal If they would have them ready; but the agent did not want that sort of shearers and told them so ' It was evident to them that what these 'f agencies want Is men who are learners who will be glad to get a job ut any price in order to live, and who can be used against tlio union men to bring down prices. On their way home the m, v boys visited the most of the people who J'- moved from this part of the country in- to Idaho and found thorn all well and "prospering flnoly, all of them glad that thoy had moved away; and when their nice farms and comfortable surroundings surround-ings are seen the reason for their satisfaction satis-faction was apparent. Two of the boys Hint vn have talked with sav that if they could sell out they would start for that country Immediately. They wore Jm informed that residents of thu country find no dlillculty In getting employ. I ment among the farmers at good wages I during the summer months. The sugar I beet Industry alone furnishes u large amount of work at good wages, and some peoplo prefer working for wages I to running iv farm on their own tic-I tic-I count. Tree planting was on when our I boys were there and they saw several I large loads of trees, as big us loads of I wood, that were being taken to the or H churds of thu settlors to bo planted, H Everything thoro is run ou large scale; ' little ten and tweuty acre furms aro seldom seen or heard of. Owing to the H Ecason being later thcro than hero the K' frost has not hurt their fruit in the least, and tho prospects for that crop arc excellent. The boys who icturned fel well paid for the tltno and money they spent. |