| Show SCARCITY OF LABORERS ogden employment agencies arc flooded with orders with the letting of a number of large contracts to ogden construction companies and the giving of large orders to the employment agencies for men the fact has been brought to light that there is not one tenth the number of laborers to be obtained that are needed and th agencies are at a loss to know where to secure men at once at present the principal shortage of men is being felt on the work on the government canal at minidoka Mini doka and today M E young of the construction firm of young and wells Is in the city looking for men he said that he could use at anc but that he could not gel them although he had been told that within a short while there would be a large number arrive from other points onra of the laborers whom he hired the other day and who arrived from the east told him that at every water tank along tho line between omaha and this city there were larger numbers of men working their way west they having heard of the letting of the western pacific con tracts which means that there will be plenty of work for laborers several men connected ath the employment agencies said that they expected that before cold water arrived there would be plenty of men as reports that they chad received from both the east and the west were to the effect that large numbers of laboring men headed for ogden to get work on the western pacific road one of the employment agents said that he looked for a return of the old cutoff cut off days when once work on the new croaff ww started as he had been assured thai the utah construction secure all of help from the local agents this means that the men will make ogden their headquarter and thai it will be to this city that they wll come to spend their money A few days ago 65 laborers were ready to ship out of omaha tor ogden but the union pacific refused to issue transportation stains that the road was in need of laborers in that territory and would not aid in shipping them out |
