In 1903. the Nichibel Employment Co. in San Francisco sent a group of workers to Garland as sugar beet laborers. about the same time similar workers were sent in to eastern Idaho. Japanese also began working in the mines at that time. The first railroad workers also appeared in the early 1900s. working on the Oregon Shore Line. and others soon followed. working for Union Pacific. Southern Pacific. and others. At its peak. there were some 400 to 2.000 working on the railroad until immigration from Hawall was prohibited in 1909. Japanese first contracted to work at the Castlegate Mines in 190304. and their good record encouraged others to be hired at Sunnyside Mines in 1905. Kennilworth Mines in 1906.
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