Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-07-19
MEXICO.
Large Amount Of Information Con-
corning orr Sister Republic.
From Special Correspondence of the Chicago
Times


Ell PAso, Texas, June 26.-One-half
of Ell Paso is in the United States; by
! crossing the river one finds himself in
Mexico. BY riding a few miles north
one is in New Mexico; and few miles
west is the border of Arizona. The
Texas portion is comparatively new,
and has been created by the necessities
of trade, for this point is the KEY to an
immense traffic between the United
States and Mexico, and is obviously des-
tined to hold no insignificant rank in
the commercial calculations of the i'm
mediate future As one Of the most
important towns of the route of Tom
SCOTS Texas Pacific railway, it de-
mands more than by-the-way, and |
have been at some pains to investigate
its natural advantages as an internatiOn-
al market, and to ascertain what the
prospects are for the building up of a
thrifty Yankee city at the northermOst
bend of the Mexican Rio Grande. Our
relations with this sister republic are at
present so delicate that every item of
information which may serve to throw
light on the future relations between the
two countries, is of timely value. Gen.
Ord's troopers have the duty now to
maintain peace farther south along the
river, there being in the vicinity of
Brownsville hiding-places out of which
Mexican and Indian thieves are wont to
rush over into Texas on cattle raids.
Up here no such trouble exists, but the
army must be kept along the frontier
| until some other permanent peacemak-
er is established
The railroad is the permanent peace
maker. As the Union Pacific and Cen
trail Pacific have cheated the savage out
of the regions which they traverse, so
will the Texas Pacific settle these Dor
der difficulties, and relieve the treasury
of the expense of maintaining an army
on the Rio Grande
The Mexican town of Ell Paso was
originally established as military post,
and fort was built, which was aband-
oned as civilization gathered here, and
/ farmers settled on the rich plains over
which freebOoters were accustomed to
roam at will The Mexican military
have been removed farther down the
river, and Ell PasO is the busy center of
Il pOpulOuS and Industrious agricultural
and fruit district For miles southeast
ward and westward there are waving
fields of wheat and maize; orchards,
we'll stocked and yielding abundantly,
are numerous, and the Ell Paso brandy
| and wine are too well known for more
than alllsiOn The Texas county of
Ell Paso has population of about five
! thousand, most of whom are engaged
in agriculture, which requires the assist
! of III
ence between the Yankee and the Mex
lean very abruptly by crossing the river
The Mexican city contains a population
of six thousand, possessing all the phys
ical and mental characteristics of their
ancient race.
Placing a finger on Ell Paso and anoth-
er on Guaymas, the great harbOr of the
most northwesterly state of the repub-
lie of Mexico, Sonora, you will see the
country through which a projected
branch of the Texas Pacific railway is
to be built, and similar line will run
from Ell Paso down through Chihuahua
(sneeze and laugh twice is the way to
pronounce it, to Durango, the capital of
q rich state of the same name The
immense territory thus brought under
the influence of an American railway,
operated by Americans in American
interest, is not easily described in hast
lily written letter. Those whose youth
was RECALLED with tales of Incas, can
form some faint idea of the hidden
riches as well as Of the superficial beau
ty and productiveness of Mexico. The
whole of the northern portion of this
excitable republic is destined to become
a client and patron of American mer-
chants, as soon as the railroad facilities
are provided to do the carrying of the
mutual exchanges.
And these are the states of Northern
Mexico to which we are to sell and from
which we shall buy: