Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-07-27 | Page 20 | Advance Guard of Harvest Hands Now Coming to Montana

I I ADVANCE GUARD OF HARVEST HANDS NOW NO COMING TO MONTANA Hundreds of Workers From Irom Stale Wiil 11 lie Dc le Needed C to Garner 1 It Its It's t. t Crops Special to The Time Herald Helena Mont Mont July 26 The Th The advance guard of ot an army of harvest cst hands hauts Juart has struck Montana according to In Information In- In formation which has reached the o offices of oC- ices Cees of or railroad companies In Helena Between now an and amid August 5 when the tho bl big Treasure state crops are l ivady roady at tot for the tue sickle hundreds of ot harvest hands will win bo be needed to garner garne the grain and nd shock and stack stacIe It I preparatory preparatory ator atory to the tho s. s Hun Needed It I Is estimated that three states Montana Minnesota and North Dakota will wi need ned between and 1000 helpers during th the harvest period and the thu first arrivals are oro getting In early In to bo be In on the ground round floor Cool It I Is estimated h by railroad companies that Montana will furnish work worle for tor 2 2200 00 able bodied men and amid perhaps at nt wages varying from 75 to 3 53 per da day clay The nature of or this crowd of or harvest hands has imas been the tho subject of or many an interesting magazine magazine magazine maga maga- zine story glory Colleges cs In the middle west and est east furnish hundreds of or their students students stu stu- dents enl who come w st to help put up the grain In J Kansas Nebraska Mentana Montana Mon Men on- on tana and other erstwhile frontier states l Railroads have made something of or a calculation as to th number Humber of hands ne needed In sov several ral cities cites and the wages wates paid Here is a rou rough h estimate In Iii Just few rew of or the tho a en cities cities- Harlowton Au August I 1 1 00 men 2 to Maudlow August u I 1 1 50 60 men 1 to 50 Miles Mies City Jul July 2 25 men wages 20 Moore foor JuI July 2 23 25 m men imen n wn wages es 2 to 10 Mua- Mua lut- lut August 1 I 1 75 is men wages 50 to August 10 50 men wages 2 0 Roundup July 25 26 50 men wages 2 Whito Sulphur Jul Springs s August August Au Au- gust rust 1 I men wages 2 to 3 It U is reported that crops were never neverIn In Iq bet better r condition than this year far and hundreds of farmers all over o er tho the state arcs aro planning to Improve al their ranches ranche with wih new hulln buildings s from the tho surplus cash netted by the time prospective big Is cst har harvest arves t