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ed. My quest was soon rewarded, for I found numerous adver- tisements calling for help in the fields, as, for example.

Wanted. — i,ooo hop pickers to pick 624 acres of hops; big crop; largest and best-equipped hop yard in Oregon ; all on trellis wire ; perfect accomoda- tions; grocery store, bakery, butcher shop, barber shop, dancing pavilion 50x150 feet, telephone, physician, beautiful camping ground; 3-acre bathing pool, restaurant, provisions sold at Portland prices. We pay $1.10 per 100 pounds; reduced excursion rates on our special train. For particulars apply to

Hop Pickers Wanted. — We pay 50 cents per box, camp shacks free ; will

be at the Hotel August 25, till September 3, to sell round trip tickets

to, Ore , grower.

Wanted. — Hop pickers for my yard at, Ore.; pay 50 cents per

box ; will be at Hotel August 25 till September i.

Hop Pickers. — Good camp ground, store, plenty wood, pay 50 cents per box ; 55 acres. Inquire

A rather unusual kind was the following which appeared in several country newspapers:

Wanted. — 1,000 pickers for .... Hop Field We pay $1.10 per

100 pounds Perfect accommodations, good food at city prices, free

whiskey, dance five nights in the week, evangelists on Sunday and a hell of a time.

This proved most alluring and showed the cosmopolitanism of the yard. All tastes were considered. This, of course, cap- tured me, as it did many another! I presented myself at the Portland office of what is claimed to be the largest hop field in the world and asked for employment. I was engaged on the spot and agreed to start the next morning at eight on a special train known as the "Hop Special." With a parting warning to be on time, the man in charge handed me my round trip ticket, for which I paid $2.60, which was a Httle more than one fare.

I was on hand at the Union Station the following morning by half-past seven and found a motley assortment of people — my companions to be — all waiting for the "Special." There were men and women and children, scores and scores of them belonging in family groups, and, in addition, several hundred young men and women off for a lark with a chance to make