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ton so as to exceed the appropriation made
for such purpose by said act.
Approved, July 10, 1918.
A STATISTICAL VIEW OF MEX!CO

The population of Mexico is, at present
about 10000 in 1874 it was 5000 900
This population is divided as follows:
Indians, 100000; Mestizoes-that is, de-
scendants of Indians and SPanish-2, 900 900;
Creoles, Spanish descent, born in Mexico
200, 900; Zamboes-Indian and Negro de-
scent: and Mulattoes--600,00 Negroes
100, 900; Estrangeros or Foreigners, 5000
According to the Constitution of 1924, every
man at eighteen years OF age, becomes votel
no other qualification is required.
| BY the relative population, we perceive thai
Indians and Mestizoes form the bulk of the
nation, and with equal privileges, are sure &c
rule II at future time. They are at present
however, regarded with extreme contempt
and are, by the whites, opprobriously denom-
| mated irrational. The number of Indians re-
mains nearly the same as when first discover
ed by the SpanIards three centuries ago, and
| their manners and religion have been little af-
fected by their white intruders.
The land of Mexico is generally much su-
perior to that OF the United States Almost
all the productions of other climes grow there
in rich IuXurance
The produce of maize is wonderful-an acre
has been known TO produce 200 bushels, and
some stems are twenty feet high, with five or
six large ears.
Wheat grows well only on table land, but
there it commonly yields twenty five to one.
In the irrigated land of Mexico, il has even
yielded fifty TO one, while in Europe ten or
twelve to one is considered the average pro-
duction and the best lands in Kentucky WELD
only twenty-five to one
To produce one million pounds Of sugar,
only one hundred and fifty iaborers are requi-
red, while three hundred are requisite in Cuba
and Louisiana.
The production Of coffee is still easier in
Mexico; twenty men can attend 10000 trees,
which, on an average, produce 500, 900 pounds.
Cotton, also, of a quality far superior TO
ours, can be produced, in many parts of Mex
leo, in greater quantities, by one third, than
can be obtained from the best lands of Loui-
siana
The silver mines of Mexico are perhaps in
exhaustible; 3,OOO,OOO,O0O have been drawn
from them during three hundred years past
averaging 100000 per annum.
The great source of wealth in Mexico is
here eminently productive soil. All the pro-
auctions of Southern Europe abound there in
the greatest state of luxuriance and perfection.
Horses, cattle, sheep, etc, of the finest quail
ity, can be raised at a very tritlng expense !;
the climate being remarkably congeniaI to
their nature The expense of winter feeding
is avoided, there being no winter there. Hor
ses of the best quality can be obtained for from
fifteen to twenty dollars per head.
Agricultural labor throughout Mexico can
be obtained on the average rate of twenty five
CENTS per day.
These low rates operate eminently to the
advantage of the enterpriSng agriculturists,
but the consequence is, nne-tenlhs Of the ma
tives forever remain IN the most abject power
ty and servtude. Mechanical labor is mostly
performed by foreigners, at from 50 to 81 per
day saceg0 Palladium.