Japanese For Mexico
San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 15. - Amons the passengers who arrived on the steamer Gaelic were M. Kobayashi and H. Kawamura of Tokio, who are on their way to Mexico to further the interests of a colossal Japanese colonizat.ion project. The flrst-mentioned gentleman said that preparations are beina made for the establishment of a Japanese colony on a big tract of land adjacent to the port of San Benito and contiguous to the G-uatemalan boundary. ín accordance with a treaty betweeD the Japanese and Mexican governments ratifled last year by Count Enomoto, ex-minister of agriculture and a wealthy Japanese land-owner, purchased 100,000 acres of land in Mexicc in the locality described, and it is on this that the Japanese colony is to be established. The enterprise is receiving the support of the Japanese gov ernment. The entire acreage will be devoted to the cultivation of coffee.
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