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Show CHINESE COOLIE LABOR IN DRWES FOR MEXICO Twenty-Five Thousand to Be Imported to Work; in the Hemp Fields of Yucatan. I numbers to their country, but I found them best, suited for the work in the I hemp fields. I contracted for as many as I coul$ obtain. "The German steamer Hansa is now on her way to Sallna "Cruz with 1600 families of Fokienese and another steamer will soon follow with a similar number. We intend to plant 25.000 families in Yucatan so that the colony will be permanent.- A large I number of the laborers will be secured 1 from Formosa," I SAN FRANCISCO, April 23. The ad- vance uard tof an'army of Chinese :, coolie-laborers who will be employed in J the hemp fields of Mexico have arrived j here from the Orient on the steamer , Doric, en route to Sallna Cruz. Theli coolies numbered fifty-seven Fokienese, but 25,000 families are soon to follow and Join their countrymen on the hemp plantations of the Mexican province of . Yucatan. The Chinese are under the immediate charge of John O. Meyers, a wealthy hemp-grower of Media, Mexico. In telling of his purpose in bringing Fokienese Fo-kienese to Mexico, Mr. Meyers said : "The hemp-planters of Yucatan have found the labor to be had In Mexico to be inadequate for the proper cultivation of their plantations, as the Porto Rl-cans Rl-cans employed at present are un suited for the work. I was sent by the Hemp-Planters' Hemp-Planters' association to China to arrange ar-range for the employment of laborers who would settle in the country. The I Fokienese do not immigrate in large |