Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1910-05-31

in commercial or other pursuit.
within the state the report speaks
at some length. The investigation
was as carefully conducted in tn,
large cities as in the farming re
gions and personal visits made tt
many establishments. Records were
searched to determine the exac
number and extent of this phase
of the situation, 95 per cent of the
Japanese business houses filling out
schedules fully stating their re
sources and the nature of the bust.
ness conducted.
After stating the belief that the
Japanese commercial element l.;
merely an incident in the problem
and the presence of the Japanese in
/ the cities and towns a natural re-
sultant of the farming element
without vital effect so far as the
possibility of competition with the
white man may be considered" the
report dismisses the question with
the statement:
The displacement of these peo-
plewould be accomplished without
any disturbance of the commercial
activity of the white people"
The japanese population of Cali
fornia is given by the report as
4l,626 on January /, 1910, about
10 per cent being females. OF this
number SIS per cent are engaged
in agricultural pursuits and Is per
cent in domestic service of one kind
or another.
OF the SIT Japanese children at
tending California public schools,
the following table of distribution
is furnished.
kindergarten, l male, females
Primary school 269 males, 149
males.
Grammar school, $50 male, 81
females.
Totals, 62S males, 1873 females.
Evening schools, II male, / fe-
male.
High schools, 1877 male, fe-
males.
The reduction of subsistence to
science is given in the report as
the basis of successful competition
by the Japanese laborer against
those of. any other races but the
Chinese. 1t is stated that the ay-
erage Japanese supports himself Oh
10 per cent of his earnings or less.
The average expenditure is about
70 or 30 cents day and the high
est figures recorded was so cents.
American food articles, it is stated,
are being substituted rapidly among
them for Japanese. 1t is given as
the opinion of the Japanese them
selves that the adoption of the
American diet has increased their
capacity for labor.
The report goes at length into
the boss system among the Japan
csc by which mobilization is ac.
complished. Work, it is stated, is
not done on a cooperative plan,
but competition is so well adjusted
that it might be guided by central
head. The contractors, field and
gang bosses, it is said, are fully
informed on all crop and market
conditions and even on the charac-
teristics of various growers before
any contract is made. This informa-
ton is gathered by men detailed to
traverse the sections under consid-
Grafton and such parts of the re-
ports as are deemed expedient are
given publicity in the Japanese
press of the state As result the
men are ready to come. knowing
what they will meet, whenever har-
veSting time is at hand.
The report states positively that
the number of Japanese laborers
obtainable for the harvesting work
this year is far short of the num-
Der required. White labor is un-
obtainable at prices within reason
and as a result of the evident with
drawal OF the Japanese. witnessed
by the immigration and emigration
reports which show the tide of
Japanese travel to be setting toward
Japan, Hindu labor has come to
the state. In the fifteen months
ending January l. 1910. S36 Japan
csc entered the port OF San Fran