As with any community, even this one enclosed with barbed wire, it took many people and talents to keep it functioning. Detained men and women took community jobs which included work in the mess halls, schools, stores, shops, hospital, police and fire departments, and on the farmland. They were paid $12, $16, and $19 per month from the Government for their work, the latter reserved for professional positions; so, to not receive more money than a foot soldier in the army. The camp newspaper occasionally advertised for needed positions. OUTSIDE the CAMP. The war time labor shortage led to several requests for detainee workers. Wyoming’s Governor Lester Hunt received several letters from farmers, ranchers, business owners, and housewives wanting a “Japanese girl” to help with household chores. Requests, of course, were referred to Guy Robertson, Camp Director. The governor supported the release of the detainees at Heart Mtn. after requesting that they be returned to the camp upon the job’s termination. The acute labor shortage was particularly felt in agriculture; in work many detainees had had experience. Even patriotic appeals were used to encourage the use of Japanese Americans detained in the camps. Internees, too, were enthusiastic to leave the camp for work; particularly with pay in agriculture work outside the camp considerably higher at 50 to 60 cents an hour, than pay for work in the camp. Hundreds of detainees left to work on area farms, particularly with sugar beets. Housing conditions and sanitary facilities in the region were reported as far below what they were accustomed to on the Coast. Gov. Hunt wrote to Wyoming’s Congressman Frank A. Barrett advising the use “all Jap labor possible...for farm and ranch work during the coming growing season.” Among those interested in the labor, the governor reported, were “all of the Big Horn Basin, C.B. & Q. Railroad, the Buffalo area, and a great many private hotels, restaurants, and other industries.”