Show SOLVING TWO PROBLEMS of chinese cheap labor have contended that without the pigtailed and plodding mongolian california could not get along in many branches of common industry it is claimed they are indispensable as white workmen could not tie le employed in them with profit to the employer one oneca of these is fruit picking eking pl drying and packing but this season many of the fruit growers of that state have demonstrated the lack that toey can profitably bibly dispense with the coolies and do better without them they have employed white boys and girls earla and like them much better then than toe the yellow men the girls a appear pear to be the favorites several cruft fruit growers have reported to representatives of the press that they prefer them to any a ny other hands and ana that they earn good wages one prominent who has a hundred acres in apricots and peaches says be uses none of the newfangled fam fled dr ina apparatus hut but depends on the rays ot of the sun he employs thirty two girls from twelve to eighteen years old whom he pays by the round pound tor cutting they work fra from K 8 six ix in the morning till nion n ion ind and from oni one to six iu in the evening they earn from 1 50 to aw 50 a day their engagement is from july lith to october 1st ast he says they are neat clean quick and respectful and he be would rather have oe 0 e of them than a whole shed full of white men at a dollar a day and board do the handling of heavy boxes and he be can get all such help as he needs lie he has no China meu on his bis esThe girls are of respectable families in his neighborhood and go to school in the months when not employed there are quite a number bof f ale fruit growers who nave have adopted the same plan and it seems to work satisfactorily facto rily in all cases by this means california fruit growers are helping to solve two important problems viz what shall lwe we do without and what shall we do with our girls |