Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-23

set in the ground and plated togetner
with strings OF raw hides. Much OF the
year the heat is so intense here that most
people dispense with the burden OF artih-
cial clothing to large extent, allowing
nature TO have her way. The people stay
in doors during the hottest part OF the day,
when the mercury ranges from 1862 to 1907
in the shade, and at night they retire TO
rest on their roofs with only the covering
that God built over US all-the ever clear
sky. This is a perfect sanitarium Tor
asthmatic people.
From Yuma to Tucson
we travel after night, and miss but little
by doing so. Much Of the country Is
desert, inhabited in spots by Papazo
Indians, lizards, Owls and rattlesnakes-
although along the wide bottoms Of the
ella river there is much good land, aud
there are some villages which trade with
the mining camps OFF in the mountains;
Tucson is next TO Santa Fe, the Oldest
332 years old. 1t is quaint old town Oh
perhaps 10000 inhabitants-Americans
Mexicans, Spainards and Indians. The old
portion of the town is composed OF long
rooms of one story houses, with low
ceilings and no floors. But there are
good MANY Americans here; and 1t is
place of business mportance-there oelng
a number of rich mining camps which oe
their trading here. In my travels tArougn
New Mexico, Arizona and California, L
have met q number OF people who are I'M
pressed with the idea that within the next
few years great deal of money will be
made bv the inevitable young
American down in eur sister
Republic Of Mexico.
A gentleman from New England, Just re-
turned from the old Capitol City interested
me quite deeply last night in an account oil
what he saw during his winters wander
ings from Vera Cruz, in and about Orlzaoa,
Cordoya, and the old city OF the Aztecs-.the
home of Montezuma Vera Cruz is city
OF 10000 inhabitants, the most important
sea port of the country. Quite heavy
trade is carried on here, mainly by Euro
peans participated in to some extent by
Americans Ever since our war with Mex
ico in which we whaled her so handsomely
and made her pay heavily for the privilege,
until quite recently, strong PREF udlce mas
existed against the Americans ana every
obstacle was thrown in the way OF our es-
tablishing business relations with the peo-
pie of that Republic. The result was tue
French, Germans, Spaniards and English
all got powerful footholds there and have
been making a great deal OF money out OF
their trade with the MeXiCans. But this
sentiment is changing, and as soon as the
two railroads, the Mexican central ana the
National, which are both now being built
from both ends between the borders OF
Texas and the Mexican capitol, and which
are expected to be completed within the
next eighteen months, are
Open 10 Trafic
there will be rich haryests down there for
American manufacturers, tradesmen aud
capitalists.
"Orizaba is in the midst of one of the
richest tropical countries in the world,
| said nv informant, "out about 65 miles
Vera Cruz, on the railroad to the City OF
Mexico" l visited a friend Of mine, q
gentleman from New Jersey, who owns q
| hocienda here, where he resides in winter
| and another in the City OF Mexico 10 which
| he retireS in the summer, as the heat al
0rizaba gets pretty oppressive when the
dog star reigns. He raises fourteen varie,
ties OF bananas, the finest ever saw; some
of them possessing a spicy and most un.
usual flavor; and oranges, the sweetest and
| juciest-they are nearly all juice-I ever
| tasted, far surprising in flavor any orange
| l ever found in any other country; and
sugar cane, he raises two crops a year oil
the finest quality; and tobacco, they can
raise no such tobacco in Cuba; and coffee
anu ever lLliIIS ClSC plOuuICu Ia
Tropical Countries.
The yield is wonderful and labor is cheap.
| You can get as many Mexican laborers as
you want at thirty cents day and they
board themselves"
Yes" he continued "theSe products
sell cheap, and yet the raising of them is
very protitable-the yield is so great and
labor so low in price. You can buy one
hundred Of the finest oranges in the world
| for ten cents; get a finer cigar for two
cents than you can get in New York for
fifteen cents; and bananas, as many as
you can carry for dime"
"Cordova is quite thriving city eighty
miles out from Vera Cruz. 1t is on higher
land and is, consequently, more healthy in
the summer than these cities whose altitude
is not so great. Its population is probably
something more than 10000; and as tine
coffee as Is raised anywhere is raised in this
vicinity. Sugar and all the tropical and
seml.tropical fruits and other products are
. raised here.
The City Of Mexico
has population of 5000 about 275, 0OD
! of whom are of as little account as so many
Indians. The live in adobe houses with
ont floors or windows, built out flush with
the streets. They have neither chairs or
tables, and the ground is their bed. But
the old city has the most perfect climate in
the world; the largest and finest Cathedral
so far as the inside finish and decorations
go. and the most stylish saddle horses on
the globe. have never seen such grand
display of people and majestic and spirited
horses in either Central Park, New
York, Hyde Park, London, or
anywhere else, as saw on the boulevard
which leads up to Maximillian's palace in
that city.
"The climate don't vary ten degrees the
year round; and if the city was properly
drained its health ought to be perfect
There is a great deal of business done in
that city and in few years the Americans
will be reaping the profits of a fat trade" "