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nnly two classes of labor available ini that country. One is the
Mexican, and the other is the Navajo Indian; and the number of
Navajos is so small that it is only a drop in the bucket.
Mr. ScuneIpER. You employ Mexicans in the State of Illinois on
track work. How many do you employ there?
Mr. McInxis. Let us start west and come east. On our coast
lines we extend over into Los Angeles and practically the whole of
our labor supply there is Mexican. That is our track labor. We are
speaking, now, of our extra gangs and of our ordinary section gangs.
On our western lines, which extend from Albuquerque, N. Mex.,
with a few miles in Oklahoma, and which also includes, as I understand
 it, the State of Colorado, on one division we have 85 per cent
of Mexican labor. On two divisions we have 90 per cent of
Mexican labor.
Mr. Scu~nriper. That is in Colorado?
Mr. McInnis. That would include Colorado, but does not include
Texas. It includes Colorado, New Mexico west, and includes a few
miles in the State of Oklahoma; at a guess I will say from 75 to 125
os, It includes also considerable mileage in southern and western
{ansas.
Our eastern lines cover all the rest of the lines other than those I
have mentioned, including our lines in the State of Texas. In other
words, that would be from eastern and northern Kansas, a portion of
the State of Oklahoma, all of the State of Missouri, and all of the State
of Illinois, what little mileage we have in the State of Iowa; 51 per
cent of our section gangs in normal times are Mexicans. 100 per
cent of our extra gangs are Mexicans.
Qur section gangs run up as hich as 90 per cent in cases of
emergency.
The Cuamrman. Have you got them emvloved now in those
States from Illinois and west?
Mr. McInnis. Have we what?
The CHAIRMAN. Are they employed now, this winter; your extra
gangs in the States adjacent to Chicago?
Mr. McInnis. I think we are doing extra gang work. Let us
see if I have that figure. I think there is a shortage on our lines just
at the moment. No: that is in our eastern lines. That includes
what is going on on our eastern lines at this time.
The CuairMax. Do vou keep an emplovment agency in Chicago?
Mr. McInnis. No.
The CuairMaN. Do you have one in Kansas City?
Mr. McInnis. No.
The CuairmaN. Do you have employment agencies anywhere?
Mr. McInnis. We have no employment agencies of our own. We
procure our labor through Holmes &amp; Co., who have an office at
El Paso and in Los Angeles. They may have an office also in San
Francisco, but I do not think so.
The CHAIRMAN. Do they have an employment agency in Chicago?
Mr. McInnis. 1 do not know.
Mr. Scunemper. Do they furnish the housing facilities and commissaries,
 and so forth?
Mr. McInnis. There are too many question in one there. Holmes
&amp; Co. furnish us the labor. We pay them nothing for that.
Mr Scuantiper. How can thev furnish the labor without some pay?