PACIFIC TREK AND VINE 



a guarantee of purity. They have 

 got to exploit the Eastern market 

 and educate the people into using 

 their products. All this refjuires 

 effort, money and patience, and 

 while it will bear lightly upon all, 

 it would bankrupt the individual. 



We can raise olives, we have as 

 good soil, climate and conditions 

 for them as any place on earth. 



This has been demonstrated. We 

 now want a market ior them, and 

 to attain this it is necessary for our 

 ohve growers to organize and work 

 together to the one end. If this is 

 not done it will be "every man for 

 himself and the devil take the hind- 

 most," and it is nowi.se certain that 

 he will not take them all. 



The Labor Problem 



to the extent of their ability, but 

 when these people come they have 

 got to find as good accommodations 

 and as kind treatment as they have 

 been accustomed to in the East. 

 Failing in this, all our efforts to get 

 this class of labor will be in vain, 

 and we shall still have to rely upon 

 an inadequate supply of Chinese 

 and Japanese. It is now up to our 

 farm and orchard employers them- 

 selves, what will they do with this 

 eastern labor when it comes ? 



The committee of fifteen appoint- 

 ed at the late Fruit Growers' Con- 

 vention to take some measures to 

 relieve the stringenc)- of the labor 

 market, have gone to work in ear- 

 nest. The railroads have extended 

 to them every assistance possible, 

 and have offered to make exceed- 

 ingly favorable rates for labor from 

 eastern points, and also to publish 

 whatever literature the committee 

 may i.ssue .setting forth the advan- 

 tages California has to offer to the 

 laboring man. It is the intention 

 of the committee to send into differ- 

 ent sections of the East practical 

 farmers, men who are capable of 

 telling about California, and who 

 can come in touch with the far ing 

 element there, and it is hoped that 

 by this means a large number of 

 enterprising and energetic young 

 men may be induced to come to our 

 State before the next fruit season 

 opens, and that the great stress of 

 labor from which we have suffered 

 for several years past may be re- 

 lieved. So far as the railroads go 

 all is easy enough, and there will 

 be no trouble in reaching the people 

 by the plan outlined by the commit- 

 tee, but there are great diflTiculties 

 to be encountered and which the 

 employers themselves alone can re- 

 move. In the first place, there is a 

 very active demand for farm labor 

 at the present time all over the 

 East. No man there need be idle 

 except from choice, so that the 

 mere prospect of a job will be no in- 

 ducement. There is very little dif- 

 ference between the wages paid in 

 the east and those offered in Cali- 

 fornia, while the superior condition 



of the farm laborer there more than 

 offsets whatever difierence there 

 may be in wages. In the liast the 

 farm laborer is usually a neighbor's 

 son and he is treated as a member 

 of the family. Hi.'^ employment is 

 not regarded as degrading. He eats 

 with the family and is furnished 

 with comfortable sleeping quarters. 

 In California we have been used to 

 Chinese laborers. We have treated 

 them like so many cattle and they 

 have been perfectly contented with 

 such treatment, probably because 

 they deserved no better. On many 

 of our large ranches and orchards 

 this has come to be looked upon as 

 the proper method of treating the 

 laboring man, and regardless of his 

 rearing or his finer feelings, if he 

 have any, he is turned loose to eat 

 and bunk with Chinese, hoboes and 

 other cattle on the ranch. As Mr. 

 Righter put it at the Fruit Growers 

 Convention: 



' 'The young men of the East have 

 not been used to sleeping except in 

 a bed somewhere; they have not 

 been used to being taken out into a 

 field and told, 'There is your bed, 

 twenty acres of it.' I am not sur- 

 prised that these young men say : 

 'What are you going to do with 

 us ?' They will not go into a 

 twenty-acre field with the hogs.' 



There are numbers of young men 

 in the East of an adventurous turn 

 who would be glad to visit Califor- 

 nia. There are men with families 

 who would be pleased to make their 

 homes here, for California is a 

 charmed name in the East. It is 

 easy enough to induce them to 

 come, and the railroads will assis 



Thk okfer of the Pacific Tree 

 AND ViNK to deliiiquent sub.scribers 

 is repeated in this issue. Read it. 



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 pay a mortgage ? If so, we can 

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 $6.25 will pay l)oth interest and 

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 Wells Fargo Building, Palo Alto. 



— l':st.i:>llslirii 18/6. 



Myobolan ^ursery 



Hayward, Alameda Co.. Cal. 



JAS. O'NflLU Pra» 



licciiliiiMis FriiitTrees grown with- 

 oiii Irnyiitiiig and free from insect 

 pestH and di.se:ise. 



Apricots, Plums and Prunes 



on Myrobolan Roots a Specialty. 



Established 1864. 



Hannay'sNursery 



SAN JOSE 



Santa Clara County. California 



Keliable growers of Nursery Stock. All 

 kinds uf Fruit and Ornamental Trees. 



Salosy.ard: Sontli Market stieet, op- 

 posite City Hall, .'^an .lose, Cal. 



Xnrsery: McUiuglilin avenue, East 

 San Jose. 



Trees and Plants 



The RuelilWheeler Nursery 



Salesyard; San 1-eroaiido street, between Mark- 

 et and San Pedro Sts.. near Postoffice. Pan Jose 

 Office 'phoDe, 331 Red. Residence, 694 Red. 



