WESTERN HEMISPHERE IMMIGRATION 357

Section laborers
Peak

Railroad company

| Miles of
main tracks

Normal

Mexican | Total

| Mexican | Total

Atchison, Topeka &amp; Santa Fo (system) ......_....
Colorado &amp; Southern. ooo cocmmmmmanacacameeee
Denver &amp; Rio Grande Western. o.com eenaenoan--Southern
 Pacific (SYStem) cv ovocrammmmmnracaaneae
Union Pacific (System). . ooo mcnocamn ans
Western Pacific (SYStem) ue cuecemaccenmcmcmananne

13, 980.02 . 6, 86&amp;
925 179
2,878 1,100
14, 347. 66 9, 622
10, 380 2, 954
1. 036 527

8,620 13; 667
500 680
1,700 2, 300
31,314 | 13,344
4,971 8,930
730 975
21,250 | 31,560 | 27,1851 39,908

Total. coerce

43, 546. 68

Extra-gang laborers
Peak
Mexican | Total | Mexican! Total

Railroad company

Miles of
main tracks

Atchison, Topeka &amp; Santa Fe (system) ____..____.
Colorado &amp; Southern. o_o oiciaimmnaen-Denver
 &amp; Rio Grande Western. ooo. coceaenann-Southern
 Pacific (system)... ooooorommoaanareees
Union-Pacifie (system)... oman.
Western Pacific (system) oo amoceiiiiannn.

13, 980. 02 5,447
925 98
2,878 600
14, 347. 66 | 4,237
10, 380 1,287
1.038 116

80.
150
80C
4,767
653
191
13, 104

10, 486
206
1,000
5,784
2, 664
465

10, 832
317
1,400
8459
3,295
820

Total. coe

43, 546. 68 | 1 1,785

20, 605 1 22,023

Normal

Peak

Mexican | Total

Percentage

Mexican

Mexican

Total

Percentage

Mexican

Section 1abOrers. «o.oo o ioe
Extra gang 1aborers. ooo co ouionna

21, 250
il, 78¢

rope

67 27,135 | 39,905
90 20,605 | 22,923
wl 47,740 | 62,828 |

68
90
76

Total owen...

323. 035

MEMOBRANDUM—MEXICAN IMMIGRATION

The facility with which a commodity produced in any part of the country can
be transported to distant markets measures the profit which the producer can
realize, and by the same token measures the volume which he is justified in producing
 and measures his prosperity. This principle applies with great force to
the fruit and vegetable industries of the West and outhwest, as, indeed, to
practically all industry in those great regions, because by far the bulk of their
product is carried to markets far remote from the point of production. The
Interstate Commerce Commission has said with reference to California fruits:
“Not more than 5 per cent of the production of fresh fruits in California is
consumed there and the product must of necessity move to the large consuming
territory east of the Missouri River and extending to the Atlantic seaboard.”
(129 1. C. C. 29.)
In large measure it is this principle which makes adequate transportation a
matter of immediate importance to the people at large, for to an overwhelming
degree all industry, country wide, depends for its success on it.
In recognition of this, Congress has expressly declared the policy of the Nation
in the following language:
“Tt is hereby declared to be the policy of Congress to promote, encourage, and
develop water transportation, service, and facilities in connection with the commerce
 of the United States, and to foster and preserve in full vigor both rail and
water transportation.” (Transportation act 1920, sec. 500; 41 Stat. 499.)