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Post by HeatherC on Oct 27, 2008 15:31:12 GMT -5
Article from the Portage Lake Mining Gazette
September 21st 1871
Miners Immigrating from England The emigration of miners and agricultural laborers from the county of Cornwall, in the southwest of England, has recently been very great. Farmers, it is reported, have been obliged to carry on their harvesting operations with a small force of laborers and are offering wages as high as from twenty-five dollars to twenty-seven dollars and a half a month, with meals. Even this high rate of wages, it is stated, has failed to secure harvest laborers. The farmers are consequently considerably embarrassed, as the crops are rapidly ripening, and the use of machinery to cut and store the grain has not yet been introduced generally. In the mines the low rate of wages has driven away the miners to the Welsh and English coal mines, and also to the United States. Under these circumstances, the owners of the Cornwall tin mines are greatly inconvenienced through lack of hands.
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