Bisbee daily review., 1905-08-16
MEXICAN LABORERS ARE
 BLOCKING TO FL PASO
THE MExIcANs ARE IN DEMAND FOR RAILROAD WORK IN NEW MEXICO, ARIZONA AND SOUTH ERIN CALIFORNIA.

Fl Paso. Aug. 15.-Without percepti- ole diminution the influx of Mexican laborers from the interior of the re- public to the border and thence to the United States continues. The Mexi- can Central train from the south nightly brings in a third class car that is we'll filled with men of the working class, accompanied by their wives and families, not to mention numerous ar ticles of bedding and apparel
 It is estimated by men who are pres ent at the Jaurez station of the MeXi- can Central on arrival of the north bound train each evening that an ay- craze of 20 Mexicans a day arrive from the south. There is no apparent change, they say, from one end of a month to another The demand for .laborers in the United States is usual ly slightly greater than the supply, and the spirit of adventure is strong in many of these laborers-most of them young mer-impelling them to leave the land of scant wages for a country where, to their imaginative brains, money appears to grow on every bush
 These labOrers, for the most part seek Fl Paso and one of its employ
  possible, provided that they have the necessary qualifications to pass the immigration officers. In occasional cases, it is said, an employment agent makes the agreement with the laborer on the Mexican side of the river, but 4rthese cases are few. The contract labor law is stringent, and the risktoo great to be ventured often.
 q am as ready to earn a dollar as the next man." remarked an employ ment agent, but you don't find me making a deal with peon on the oth- CT side of the river. If a man ap- breaches me in Jaurez, and says, Can you give me work?' I say, Come over 70 Fl Paso and I'll sec l won't stake him to the price of a meal, if he wants it. because that would be in violation of the law I'd like the money, but the officers are wide awake. and it is all of with any man who is caught red handed There was a man just this week who had a narrow escape. He came a little too close to doing busi- ness on the Jaurez side, and the i'm migration officers were after him in a hurry.
 Where do the laborers go? Most of them go out over the Santa Fe, to work on jobs out in Arizona, New Mexico, and as far as California. There is a scarcity of labor out ir, those dis tricts, and the contractors are willing to pay for men.
 ''NO contractor who is willing to pay the price has to go long without his men. It is the men with cold feet the ones who are afraid to come up to the mark with the dinero, who can't get laborers.
 Why is it you say you can't get me workmen, when you arc sending them out all the time over the rail road?" asked a man the other day. whose order I had not been able to fill
 "Tll give you the men if you'll pay the price, I told him. If you offer s1.50 a day, and yet the men board themselves and another man of fers S1.50 a day anl board, where do think the man is going to gO?"
 in addition to the men who are go- ing cut west, a number are still going to ucumcari, for the Dawson branch of the Southwestern, but they have nearly as many laborers as they need by this time. Nearly every day few men go out to Torrance, to be put on to Belem cutoff work.