Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-05-23
BETS
CHINO. San Bsrnadino Co, Gal. !
MAY 3. 1891. (


journals VI this state, and be continual
! ly borne in mind by all persons inter
ested in the advancement of thu state Of
| California. The Chino ranch is com
posed OF two grants by the Mexican
government in lS4l and 1912 to Senior
Lugo and his son-in- law, Williams.
These two grants have been increased
by the present owner Richard Gird-to
about $4,000 acres. He acquired the
grants in 1891, continued using them US
grazing lands until near the end OF the
boom in 1857, when he sub-divided
23,0O0 acres Into ten acre tracts and adj
vertised the property, at great expense,
utilized by our people. Befo-e the
boom died few eastern people settled
here, snd gradually more came until
now, when there is thrifty settlement
and town, with four daily passenger
trains coming and going, and also about
all that such frequent train service i'm
p2tCct anu do0AStCd ZIG -
laid for an immense beet-sugar indus
| try of which / recently gave some ac-
| count IN the Bulletin, and this brings
me- up TO the real point Of this letter. AS
/ matter Of course the eastern people
| here from many OK the states were IN
| correspondence with their friends at
their old homes. This new industry
! taken in connection with its value to
the fruit and canning industries caused
! Increased correspondence and more
| pointed Inquiries we're sent 10 friends
| here. Some Nebraska farmers with
J from 5000 to $500 each were well
! pleased with the outlook, but hao in
come way become impressed that the
growing CT sugar beets on q large scale
and making them into sugar would
result in the employ ment of Chinese to
a large extent. They inquired by letter
| if such q result would occur. They did
not want to cone into a community
where such labor prevailed. They were
assured that 90 far as Mr. Grid was con-
cerned-aEd he is under contract 10 see
that the factory is supplied with Civ
en- acreage OF beets for five years-he
was strongly opposed to Chinese labor.
| On this assurance several families sold
their homes, came here and we're well
| pleased with the land and satisfied with
the price.
CHINESE THOUGHT NECESSARY.
About this time the young beet crops
+! which we're first planted had arrived at
! the thinning stage, and two OF the far
| mers who dad sub contracts TO grow
beets introduced dozen or more Chi
| namen TO do their thinning on the pre-
tense that American labor could rot be
| obtained. Circumstances pnnecess-ry
| to relate fastened h determination 20 re-
move them beyond the ranch. Sober.
tenn perate and orderly men gathered to-
| Gs'her, and without Bny violence placed
the Chinamen and their camp equipage
into wHgoDs and quietly removed all to
point in the corporate limits OF Pomo
La. To use the language of diplomacy,
this incident caused good deal OF feel
| ing pro and con for a few weeks, and
Tut for the determination Of q few men
| here, it is about certain that this beau
tiful and rich valley would today be
practically 0lackened with Chinese la
borere, and the further additions TO it of
/ any desirable population made impossi
BILE or indefinitely postponed.
Our Nebraska friends who had Sc
lected their lots of lands and agreed on
the price declined to complete their pur-
| chase, and decided 10 wait little while
and see whether the sugar buainess or
the agricultural part of it was or was
| rot possible with American labor, end
| ii not to find another place for homes
The beets were at such stage that the
| question had to be instantly tested. An
| advertisement In Los Angeles paper,
at cost OF sixty cents, Immediately
brought plenty OF American labor. 1t
| was tried. AS is AWAY the cage, few
of the many proved inefficient in or I'M
willing to do the labor, but there was
no scarcity Of faithful. efficient workers
| who took hold, and today two European
beet farmers, including James @. OK
nerd, vice presiden. OF the factory CON-
pany here, agree that they never saw
more promising beet crops nor better
field work dore than right here, where
few weeks before it was thought, ave.,
said by some, that such results could
only be accomplished by Chinese cheap
labor; not only was work cheerfully done
but to the confusion of the advocates OF
Chinese labor, the Americans land by
this mean whites, Mexicans, Negroes
and Indians) did more and better work
for the money paid than the CHR ese
had done, ami these facts are not now
disputed by any one.
The assertion that the American
would surely regard beet culture as Pile
bian has certainly proved untrue. The
exercise OF common sense should have
precluded argument on the point.
Working in the beet fields is light la
bor-tiresome, il is true, but as clearly
as which has been termed
the agriculture Of gentlemen.
1t may be per'inently said that far
mers bereabouts entered into cor tracts
to grow beets with reluctance. They
feared the results; the industry was al
together new to them; the whisperings
that this form Of agriculture WAS low
and that much of the work would fall
on Cinnamon; 1.-THE knowledge that the val
ue Of the beet would be determined in
chemical laboratory by processes they
could not comprehend and by persons
who were not buyers and growers of
beets-all united &c repel rather than
attract, them to sugar-beet growing.
Now that many hundred acres OF full
stand of beautifully thinned beets which
which according to reasonable calcula-
tions, will give very satisfactory returns
in cash in few months, can be seen, an
eager disposition TO grow them is preva
lent. Professional men and mechanics
have planted ten or more acres and some
whose crops are we'll advanced are will
Jog to plant more. And this tendency
arises largely, if not wholly, from the
fact that there is no mora talk of using
Chinese labor in the fields. In other
words it is now firmly believed that the
industry will be a success with Ameri-
can laborers who will prosper and rear
the institutions of civilization here, and
by diversifying labor give greater as
s1rance of an sll round and desirable
community.
JOHN WAssoN.
Bowie Stage Held Up.