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Mr. Caanprer. No; I think not. They are planting about 60
per cent of what they formerly did.
The CuairMaN. And in the entire Rio Grande Valley? Are you
panies with that section? Are they not increasing the cotton area
there?
Mr. Caanprer. I think in Arizona and New Mexico and in that
section the production is about the same. The San Joaquin Valley
has advanced 300 per cent in 10 years, but this year’s acreage will
be cut 50 per cent, but the Imperial Valley acreage has decreased.
The CuarMaN. In other words, agriculture and the growing of
citrus fruits, and such as that, are trying to climb up to_the 90-mile-anhour
 basis that industry was running at and recently let down?
Mr. CHANDLER. Yes, sir. i
The Cuairman. Have you not a real problem there?
Mr. Cuanprer. Yes, sir; there is no question about that.
The Crarrman. I hand you a recently printed pamphlet by Rev.
John A. Ryan, director of the health and accident department of
the National Catholic Welfare Conference, dealing with the subject
of unemployment, and I commend it to you.
We thank you very much for the information you have given us.
STATEMENT BY HON. JOHN C. BOX, A REPRESENTATIVE IN
CONGRESS FROM THEE STATE OF TEXAS

Mr. Box. In connection with the statements here made that there
isno intermarriage between Mexicans and other races and, therefore,
no racial intermixture involved in the presence of hundreds of thousands
 of them with our already mixed population, I want to make
this observation.
Congressman Jenkins and I, during the summer, made a special
survey of Mexican immigration, as a part of which we sent out a
number of questions to people of the following classes in a dozen or
more Central, Western, Northwestern, and Southwestern States:
Retail merchants and business men. Farm organization officials,
such as secretaries of farm bureaus and local granges, and individual
farmers. Superintendents of schools, school officials, and persons
specially interested in education. Health officers and persons and
organizations interested in public health. Persons connected with
labor organizations or specially interested in the condition of laboring
people.
dln? general form was used for any citizen who might be in
position to report upon the situation.
I give you some of the yet incomplete results of this survey, coming
from some of the States, on this question of intermarriage between
mongrel Mexicans and whites and negroes. Each of these reports
does not show merely la single intermarriage. Each usually shows a
few of such intermarriages.
From Texas 141 reports came each showing a few instances of
intermarriages between white people and Mexicans, and 91 reports
each showing some intermarriages between Mexicans and negroes.
From Colorado came 41 reports, not of isolated cases nor of a
general practice, but each usually showing a few instances of intermarriage
 between Mexicans and whites, and 19 reports each showing
some intermarriages between Mexicans and negroes.