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Show FEW AMERICANS IN CHIHUAHUA Remnant Left in State Will Take Train for Border Tomorrow. PROPERTY LEFT BEHIND Four Hundred Millions in Mi nes, Ranches, Factories and Other Industries Last. El Paso. Tex.. April 25. With the arrival here todav of 97 American men, wnmn and children, refugees from Madera and 12 nlcLfd nn h he at Chihuahua. Americans who have been leaving the country since the I ramplco Incident, are no practically all out of the state of Chihuahua The remnant in the city of Chihuahua with the exception of a few who are determined deter-mined to remain to the last, will leave tomorrow morning on the regular train At Douglas and Nacozari on the Arizona Ari-zona horder they are arriving by the score and hundreds, every state In the state of Sonora, save in isolated ranches ran-ches and rampB not yet reached by warning!, is now practically denuded of them. After three years of warning practically prac-tically oven- city In northern Mexico, invited Into Mexico by very inducement induce-ment PorflrlO Diaz could offer, is now a refugee and property worth four hundred millions in mines, ranches, fac tories and other industries has been left behind. Business Men Driven Out. Many of these industries have remained re-mained operative, partially at least, through ever difficulty and discouragement discour-agement of robbery, taxation, uncertain uncer-tain communication and even personal danger of employes, hut almost the last one of these Americans who built and maintained them has heen driven out by the developments of the affair at Tainpico. W. W. Qrubbf, of Madera, where the great sawmills have persistently but on n constantly diminished scale, manufactured man-ufactured their output, related a pathetic pa-thetic incident of the departure of the American from that city. ' The closing of the mills meant much to us," he said, "but I guess It meant more to the thousand of Mexicans Mexi-cans employed there. There was a big crowd of them at the station when we went away and some fairly begged us to sta. I don't know what will become be-come of them now that their employ ment is gme It was a sad scene and we didn't hap an enemy in the crowd. In fact, through the whole- trip we encountered nothing but courtesy, and not a sign of enmity ." |
