Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1884-03-07
MEXICO.
An Americans Observation About the
Country aud People.

the results of the conversation are
given in the Cincinnati Enquirer:
A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND NOTHING
IN IT.
''What is your general idea of Mexi-
coz"
"a beautiful country, with nothing
in it for use"
Then you think Texas is worth all
OF Mexico!'
II do. 1t raises more, exports more
has better soil, and more energetic
people than all Mexico
POOR LAND, BUT WELL CULTIVATED.
Now" said l 10 Col. Warton,
"express to me what you think of the
land in Mexico
ut was originally thin, poor soil,
and it is we'll nigh exhausted. There
was not much to get out, and there is
hardly anything left. But 1t is mis-
lake to say that they are not good cul-
tivators.
They are better farmers than We are
considering what utensils they have;they
have no improved machinery to speak
OF, but they have the most industrious
labor. | suppose on the globe-the
poems or Indians. Mexico has 5000,
900, of people; 1000 900 of these are
Indians. OF the better society OF
Mexico, particularly the ladies, you
hardly see anything at all, unless you
should be taken to their homes. But
these poems are up early and work
late, and they exceed negroes or whites
in their assiduity. They will 60 miles
and miles with $50 pounds on their
backs, never complaining The Indian
blood has produced the strongest
characters in recent Mexico. Diaz is
of that stock, and SO was Jaurez,"
How do you m eanthat the soil Is
well cultlvatedF
"Becauserhey cultivate up to the
highest arabic point on the mou italns'
They 60 far up beyond the place where
we would till the land. There is so
little good soil they have to use 1t all
Rocky New England is not as well cul-
tiva.ed as those portions of Mexico
where it will pay to plant anything
They will take wooden plow or some
kind of stick and work up the soil
like garden. saw the Indian corn
rows set apparently by mathematics.
so strait they were. A drill could
hardly have planted the corn as
straight. Occasionally you find val
| lev in Mexico which look beautiful to
the eve and contains every description
of fruit and product; but when you go
to examine it you viii find that tits ex-
ceptionally narrow, and, indeed, Mexl-
co is cultivated IN little patches OF
ground like Ireland, not a quarter of
an acre in a patch, and that alone
gives the rich piece CT soil a splendid
appearance, with its many costumes
and vari-colored productions. The
space of bad lands between the arabic
places are long and vast"
FOREIGNERS THE BUSINESS MEN-MEXI-
CANS CAN WAIT.
what constitutes the business class
of Mexico?"
The Germans and French. They
are firmly planted in the business, but
the natives there look on them as they
do on us-with indifference. A MeM-
can will plant himself In your neighbour
hood, and just look at you, out OF his
eyes as If he could stand sitting there
as long as you, and meantto stay there
till you broke up and left him what you
had accumulated in the country. In
some respects they are smarter people
than we are" said Col Wharton.
I'm what way?" SAID |.
"Well they can wait longer. They
are more frugal. They live on little
do not want to change their base, are
not an initiative people, prefer what
they have got, and they have uniformly
inherited what he foreigners put there
OF a pubic character and much OF a
private character
MEXICAN MINING.
How did the gold come out of the
ground?"
why one of the poems will take
rock as big as your desk and patiently
sit down beside and split off small
piece with hammer, and he will look
that little piece all over to see ifit has
a particle of gold III it, and let none
escape him. In that way he will slowly
knock the whole rock to pieces, and
when he is done with it you will find no
gold there to get out. The govern |
ment formerly and the churches got
the most of the gold"
Then you think the mines of Mexi-
co have been pretty well hunted over?"
Yes. If any man ever comes to you
and wants to sell you mine which he
says is full of water, and only needs to
have the water pumped out to work it
with great advantage, don't you be
lieve him. Ii hat mine is full Of wa
ter, it is pretty certain that the Mem-
cars nave done with it, and have got
everything out of it."
FINE CAVALRY.
"Did you see any Of their troops 2"
Yes; | saw some splendid troops.
There are 1000 soldiers kept in Mexi-
co City. They are as good troops as
l ever saw, clothed in blue very much
like our regular army soldiers. l saw
the finest regiment of cavalry there 7