The Independence Day barbecue party in Celias Town started on time on the shores of Reese Lake in Garrison Ranch.
What was originally an ordinary party held exclusively by Garrison Ranch has been given more meaning. After being held for several years, the party has now become a traditional program in the entire town. It depends on what everyone thinks.
Plan to keep doing it.
Under such circumstances, it would be inappropriate for this activity to be exclusively funded by a foreign-owned ranch like Garrison Ranch.
As a result, the number of sponsors for this event has now increased to many. In addition to Garrison Ranch, there are also related companies such as Ent Flight Service Company, Yayuan Jockey Club, and Jiayi International Garrison Ranch Resort.
There are also the gas station owned by Mayor Kempinson, Evan Turner’s supermarket, as well as various enterprises in the town such as seed companies, cafes, bars, automobile and farm equipment repair shops, etc. Anyone who thinks they have some financial strength can join them.
Come in.
Everyone was there for the fun, so the participation was so enthusiastic.
However, Americans are more practical. Most of the sponsorships provided by companies in the town are in kind or services, and there is also cash, but most of them are 1,800 US dollars, just for fun. Anyway, there are big money backing them, and no one will pretend to be fat.
The big money backing him up was, of course, the enthusiastic man Manuel.
His manor was sold to Sun Dahai. He only has one manor in Seliyas Town, and he does not live there permanently. Therefore, he is not even considered a resident here, but can only be regarded as a member of the public watching the theater.
The more the merrier!
With everyone's active participation, the scale of the Independence Day barbecue party is getting bigger and bigger. Whether it is good or not is another matter, but the funds for the event have obviously increased significantly.
The total expenditure for the first time was nearly 100,000 U.S. dollars, and now more than 300,000 U.S. dollars in cash have been received from sponsorship fees alone, not counting the various party supplies and services sponsored.
Maniel came with the entire team of chefs from his manor, as well as the most important imam. Without the animals he slaughtered himself, Maniel and the others could only imitate rabbits and eat vegetables. At least for now.
In public, the Maniel brothers and sisters did not dare to eat randomly.
Counting the first time in 1986, this is the second time Sun Dahai has attended this party.
The party now seems much more formal, with not only an organizing committee, formal organizers and professional hosts, but also singers and bands specially invited from Billings.
On the surface, it was the mayor of the town, Kaibinson, who promoted the formalization of the party, but behind the scenes, it was Jiayu International Travel Agency who was adding fuel to the fire.
Susan has a family background and has her own understanding of how to cultivate tourism resources and develop tourism projects. After inspecting the Daqingshan project, she gained a better understanding of developing folk culture based on local conditions.
In the Garrison Ranch project, although most tourism resources are developed around the characteristics of the ranch and its business scope, folklore is not the focus.
But since such a project already exists here, and it already has a good mass base, Susan would really be dishonoring her position if she did not develop it.
Therefore, starting from last year, Susan and Kebinson began to cooperate, making this party gradually become their ideal tourism resource (political achievement).
When Sun Dahai arrived at the bank of Ruisi Lake, he was stunned by the lively scene in front of him.
There are only five to six hundred people in Celias Town, and it is impossible for each ranch to go out without leaving people behind. Therefore, Sun Dahai was shocked when he saw the formation in front of him. This was Celias's party.
Or a party in Billings?
Sun Dahai has a misunderstanding. There are only five or six hundred residents in Selias Town, but it does not mean that there are only five or six hundred people in the town.
Some small pastures and farms rely on natural families to complete all the work. But for a pasture with an area of 1,000 acres or even 500 acres, the manpower of an ordinary family will definitely be too busy.
Therefore, there are actually many hired workers in Seleas Town, regardless of whether they are legal or illegal, and most of them are distributed in the surrounding pastures and farms. Added up, if not a thousand people, there are at least seven or eight hundred.
Sun Dahai has not stayed here for a few days in total. He spends most of his time in his pasture, so he doesn't know these things.
Montana is located in the northwest of the United States, adjacent to Canada. It is a vast and sparsely populated state and is mainly based on agriculture, animal husbandry, and mining. It is difficult to recruit migrant workers.
Therefore, Montana is far less attractive to labor force than those continents dominated by industry, or those in the south such as Texas and New Mexico, which are close to the water. (Most of the farm workers in the United States come from Mexico and New Mexico in the south.
In Latin America, there are many illegal workers.) Not to mention compared with places like New York and Los Angeles.
Take the Garrison Ranch as an example. The ranch currently employs more than 80 people, of whom less than half are settled in Celias, only one-third at most.
If you include the resort and Yayuan Jockey Club, the total number of people is close to two hundred, but the ratio of townspeople to outsiders is basically one to three or one to four.
This is not because Sun Dahai discriminates against local people, or is unwilling to pay relatively high salaries to recruit locally. The key is that there are simply not that many wealthy labor forces in the local area for him to choose from.
Garrison Ranch is Sun Dahai's property. As a ranch controlled by foreign funds, Sun Dahai had previously asked Linkwood to try his best to build good relations with the locals.
It's a pity that Linkwood has really tried its best when it comes to labor, but this is a problem faced by all industries throughout Montana.
Unless Linkwood dares to risk the disapproval of the world and significantly increase labor wages. Otherwise, let alone him, not even the governor can solve it.
The new Garrison Ranch has been reorganized and integrated, and its business purpose and direction have changed. Therefore, there are many positions needed in the ranch, and the labor gap is quite large.
Linkwood not only asked Kbinson to recommend suitable candidates from the local area, but also placed recruitment advertisements in Billings and asked people from the city union to help recruit.
Even so, not enough ranch workers were recruited. In the end, Sun Dahai transferred a group of people from Shiweitian and arranged study places, which solved the "human shortage" problem in the ranch.
Garrison Ranch is in this situation, and other ranches are not much better than it. However, they are all old ranches that have been operating for generations. Who doesn’t have a few illegal employees?
Even many of these employees have lived and worked here for many years, got married, had children, and settled down.
Loopholes in the U.S. immigration system make it easy for them to turn their illegal status into legal. For Montana, which has a severe labor shortage, these workers are still welcome to settle here.