The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-02
Mexican Public Lands.

There are scores of letters received
here weekly from inquirers in Missouri,
Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Ken
lucky and other States. These invaria-
bly, ask how and on what terms and for
what cost public lands in Mexico can be
obtained. On the 10Th of last Novem-
Der President Manuel Gonzales issued a
decree regarding the sale of Govern
ment lands, and the prices fixed for
them for the calendar years 1883 and
1884. The price is given for lands by
the sitios, site or location, which is the
largest tract that can be purchased by
one patent or title, although one may
purchase as many of these sitios as he
please, either in adjoining bodies or sep
arate. A sitio is 4,477 acres, English or
American land measure. Each makes
a good-sized plantation or ranch. In
the frontier States of Chihuahua, Nuevo
Leon and Tamaulipas q sitio OF 4,41I
acres costs S351.12, or z 7-1O cents per
acre. In the States of Sonora, Durango,
and Sinaloa the price is S63S.9O, or
9 40 cents per acre. These three
States connect each other. Sonora
joins Arizona in the United States on
the north, and Sinaloa on the south,
while Durango joins Sinaloa on its
eastern border, on the southern one
half of it. Sugar, coffee, cotton, rice,
all kinds of grain, vegetables, grasses
and fruits thrive luXuriantly in these
States. Grand grazing and fruit lands
abound in the above mentioned six
States. Fine woods, as mahogany
rosewood, lockwood, red and white
cedar, with pine, oak, cottonwood, rcd
wood, and other varieties of timler,
abound in Sinaloa, on the lower portion
of the mountain slopes. In the Safes
of Campeche and Yucutan, in the South
or lower end of the republic, a ditto is
SS77.S0, or at the rate of 10 81 cents
per acre. The price fixed for Govern
ment lands in the States of Tabasco,
OaXaca, Guerrero and Chipas is ST.
316.17, or 81 cents per acre. In the
States of Colima, Zacatecas, Mchoacan
and Jalisco, the price is $7j5,61, or
at SO 1-5 cents per acre. The lands
offered in the state of Vera Cruz
are at S2,193.75 per sito, or at
40 cents per acre. Sitios at San Luis
Potosi, TlaXacala, Hidalgo and Aguas
Calientes are each 50, 1888. Al, or So As
cents per acre. Anyof the public lands
of Lower California, which is the only
territory in the republic, can be pur-
chased for S175 per sitio, or at the rate
of $40 cents per acre. In the five
States of Queretaro, Pueblo, Morelos,
Mexico and Guanajato, sitios are held
by the Government at S3,511.32, or at
the rate of rs % cents per acre. Public
lands in the State of Coahuila are sold
at $263. "a per sitio or at 5 As cents per
acre. In the federal district, which cor
responds to our District of Columbia,
and in which the national capital is
located, a stio is held at $4, 389.08, or at
the rate of 90 cents per acre. Thevalue
of these lands which vary from $195.52
per sitio up to $4,389,02, are accounted
for by location, near to or far from dense
populations, convenience to markets,
and natural wealth, as timber, medic
inalroots, or grasses which respective
regions hold.-EI PaSo Times.
1.-THE American hog has for some
time been roofing at and undermining
the cordial relations hitherto existino o
between Germany and the United
States" says the Rochester Herald.
A stand fell down with crash,
A number of men it did mash,
But the entire ten
Were soon well again
st. Jacobs Oil cured every cash.
A baker who lives in Duluth,
Went crazy one night with tooth,
He rubbed the gum boil,
With st. Jacobs Oil,
1t cured him, and this is the truth.
The cranks are not all dead, but
some of their notions contain a great
deal of humor. One of them, talking
in the cars, proposed that all the Irish
be tempted to come to America, and
that then colony of American Know
Nothings buy Ireland and live there
N. Y. Herald.
Flies, reaches, ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice,
crows, cleared out by Trough on Rats. "15c.
A BURGLAR being asked by magistrate
his occupation, facetiously replied: "a
hcuse-cleaner, your Honor"