The Fremont County record. [volume] (Canon City, Colo.) 1877-18??, 1882-10-21

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conquered, and staid there. The known
history of Mexico to this point closely paral-
lels that Of England, successfully invaded
and occupied by Saxon and Norman. The
Toltecs were probably more civilized race
than the Saxons of Hengist and Horsa.
The Spaniard in the sixteenth century in
vaded and occupied Mexico, and maintain
ed himself there longer and firmer than the
Englishman did in Massachusetts,, OF the
Frenchman in Canada or Louisiana The
imperial adventurer Macmillan failed to
maintain himself, it is true, but it was the
atmosphere of Washington that was fatal
to him.
No Wall Street in Mexico-we doubt II
sMeng Meeg all VIII The 5 always y,d e unite
which @ already many millions II mss 81 do dollars have
Seen ~ nni that sum-
This is substantially true, although the
specified statement yentured is inaccurate.
One Mexican gentleman in the City of
Mexico has taken $4,000 of stock in the
Mexican National. But, as a rule, it is true
that the Mexicans do not popularity sub
scribe to the shares of the American rail
ways This is to be accounted for by the
business conditions and usages of the
country, which are essentially different from
ours. In Mexico, when one deposits money
it has been the custom, for instance, to pay
the banker for keeping it. The average
Mexican understands by property either
real estate or silver, and does not know
what certificate of stock is"
AS to imnigration,' says Mr.. Nevin,
Mexico is getting along very satisfactorily
without it. Ten millions OF people are u
very substantial basis for the develop
ment ofthemsclves. The carrying of food,
clothing, and supplies of 10,Oo0,OO0 people
is very fair basis for u railway system,
even without foreign trade, but the figures
above show that the foreign trade is COM
ing. Mexico, however, is getting an i'm
migration. The English language carries
one now in the City of Mexico Five years
ago it would not. Her towns ON the Ameri-
can frontier are growing; colonies are in-
vited by the Government. But this i'm
migration-a small stream yet, it is true
is coming in healthy, natural way, and
is not organized nor forced by the railway
corporations. Mr.. Bigelow is mistaken
when he says that "alr' the American rail-
ways have recognized it' ii e., immigra-
tom as "the new element on which they il
rely" and further, when he sums up the
whole movement i'll the following e-r cdthe-
drd fashion:
1t is true there has been considerable I'M
migration pouring into Mexico during the
past year or two, amounting to some 5000 or
i0,UOD, perhaps, but II has consisted mainly OF
Italians and negroes, who have been brought
there at the expense OF railway contractors to
work on the roads, and those OF them who do
contracts expire, either return to their resnect-
i've countries or remain a burden rlther than
source oT wealth to their adopted country.
Il have not carefully studied all the
schemes of all the roads as presented to the
public, and will not undertake to make
assertions concerning the business opera
tions OF other roads, but do say that the
National has never presented immigration
as the element on which it relies for sue
cess, and that it has never imported single
Italian or negro. Nor do think have any
of its contractors, for the simple reason
that while labor on the spot can be had at
from thirty-one to fifty cents day it hard
ly seems good management to import it at
Sl.25 or S1.75 per day and cost of trans
portation.
Docs Faith Influence Railway Building:-
1t deserves here also to be mentioned thnI the
Latin church, though no longer as formidable
for mischief as IT used to be, is still the domi-
nant church of the country, and Its influence
+, Is used and very effectively. among the masses
vasion of Mexico.
"The influence of the Latin church has
not prevented railways being built in Bel
GUM, France, Spain, Italy, OF New Mexico.
In these former countries u Roman Catho-
lie bishop or priest was generally found To
bless the engine when it first entered
leading town. The recent railway system
of Hungary was built by distinctively
Roman Catholic capital. The only large
subscriptions to its construction capital
made in the country came from the Roman
Catholic bishops. In New Mexico, when
the Denver and Rio Grande was building
there, the calls for laborers was read out in
the parish churches by the parish priests
after mass, and one of the good friends OF
the builders was the venerable arch bishop
of the al )cese. The Roman Catholic bishops,
as rule, are cninently men Of Affairs and
will not take any doetrinaire or sentimental
view of railroad which is an achieved
fact"
Poverty and ignorance are treated of, and
it is shown that the per cent. of illiteracy
in Mexico is very nearly that of Russia and
India, when railroads are successfully op-
Grated.
AS to the want of coal, he shows conclu-
sively that Humboldt found coal and iron
in abundance in Michoacan-the Pcnnsyl-
vania OF Mexico, in 1904 1.-The Rio Grande
and Pecos, short line built from Laredo,
ION the American side)is to-day working
up to its full capacity, carrying coal These
beds seem to be a part of u large field on
both sides of the Rio Grande. Piedras Ne
grls tblack stOnes), Mexican town and
district 100 miles above Laredo, means
coal. Engines on the Mexican National,
Monterey division, are now burning coal
One Mexican owner near Lam paSoS oilers
to supply it at 50 per ton. Ninety miles
away from the point the Candida mines
are opened, one 1.-THE veins being six and
one-half feet thick. This mine supplies
several smelling furnaces with fuel"
The remainder of Mr.. Nevin's letter is
devoted to showing the relative cost of
transportation by one or the other of pro-
jcctcd Mexican roads; but with this we have
nothing to do at present. He closes his
letter as follows:
There is no country SO imperfcctly un-
derstood as Mexico. The practical fact for
New York is that q nation with ten mil
lions of people is being annexed to her
commercial territory, that the trade of that
nation with us is now greater than our
trade with Russia or 5npan, and is forging
ahead at an increase of twenty to twenty
five per cent year. Galveston, Houston,
San Francisco, Denver and New Orleans,
are holding conventions to encourage and
welcome this trade, and organize its cham
nels to themselves. Monterey and Chihua-
hua are answering, for the first time in
their lives, perhaps, stirred with the throe
Of the Saxon town meeting" New Or
leans has this week formally organized q
Mexican Commercial Exchange" Shall
we in New York, to whom the lead in this
trade belongs, and who must supply the