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Show The Ciilntse a Kinner. A year ago I sold for n friend in -isti Francisco a lotof land In a then unbuilt western suburb. A Chins mau has Ucu uJug it as n garden. Tho laud was saudy aisl ha I not more thin 3U) by feet surface. The Chinaman therefore bad the full usu of lut twoninl n quarter acres. For till seck uf ground he : rr-uLuly wl J 75 a moUli, and he iiveti on it with au -wsLnant. He used Uie lanj to grow VegcLlbles, which he sold to (.'hltiamen to 1-e peddled through the city. D-pito tlic hltth rent, he was making money. mo-ney. Hie Itev. Mr. Vruoman, now Chiuese Intei-TTeUr iu the California Califor-nia courts, who w9 for Iwetity-flvo yeir a mlhary to Canton d .u repieiitlr aiion., th-Chim-Mi lu Melbourne, tufvmieti me Hint he 'knew of two Chlm-se In llw latter place who n'ajo a living for them-I them-I selvf- au I a hurse frnn a quarter of an a.re of laud. I n 1 1dltion to thus Sjp;itlng theinl aad the horse, they each sent yearly $ to their relatives at home. Chinese now rent at leat 50,0H acres of fruit and tottom laud wiUiiu a radius a hundred miles of San Francisco, for which they lay from tour to ten times what a white h-sn-e could aOurd to pay for the same. Land In their liands i farmed In earnest, and with them Its riebne-. lucreases rather than decreases. forum. |