Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-12-24
A MEX[CAN LETTER.
A Bird's-Bye View of Old Mexico
Her Immense Agricultural and
Mineral Resources,
a Country Of Possibilities Where Any
American who Attends 10 to his
Business can Grow Rich,
special Correspondence OF The Gazette,

Special Correspondence OF the Gazette,
CITY OF MEXICO, Dec. ls.-From
the land of eternal sunshine and reyo-
lutions, OF orange groves and assassina-
tons, from the land Of God andliberty,
your scribe sends greeting. Much has
been said OF, and written about, Old
Mexico, but it remains vi to the
writer or thinker on human progress to
do justice to this much-reviled and
much misrepreseRted country. A
writer some time back, who had more
Of an idea of truth than poetry IN his
brain said, "GOd made this q para
disc, but man made IL a hell, and he
hit the mark as near as a bohemian
ever comes 10 it,
Mexico is country Of immense pos
sibilities, her agricultural, stock and
mineral resources are uDbouuded.
GOV. Sheppard, (who does not remem-
Der old Boss Sheppardj? went to Ba-
topilas three years ago and
built up mining business
that Is to-day worth five million dol
lars. So tits with farming and other
industries An American that will
attend TO his business can come here
aud make Rn eternal fortune, but the
! trouble here is, AS IN our own country,
people come expecting 20 flld a for
tune On the streets, aud get Left
The mining region reaches from the
| Rio Grande TO the southern boundaries
of the republic ana is the richest IN
the world / have seen and severa
Americans win bear me out in this
ststemeut) pure silver ore that could b.
cut with a kuile1ss easily as lead
And still people viii decry Mexico.
say to the public, aud j will say posi-
lively to my friends, that il is thu
country for poor man. People may
talk and demagogues may blow abon
poor labor, but things are here as they
are ut home. Every man tries to d'
the best ne can.
Striking the country at III Paeo, th
pilgrim 10 this country travels over
good, smooth railway to Montezuma
where q stageline takes MIN TO tn
\ celebrated Dunlap mines. Contihu
\ng down the Central road he viii
NTive In Chihuahua, the capita
ONE state Of that name and the cen
ter 0Nthe mining and stock business o
| Northern Mexico.
II were to try to give fair pictur
tl 1hAuNhh'ta WHNth lhh al lhc en-
terprise and>so ! Will simply say it j
the nnest town for rs siz
aud populati%u ever saw
a city of SOME l00D0ip n bran;s, ha
two public markets, the finest cathe
dral in Mexico, and a IS stem of water
works that are unsurpassed in Cont
mental America.
Going south from Chihuahua W
come to the San ROsnlie, a prett.
little village OF 5000 or 700
people, aud further south W
come 20 Wa-kubu and Lerdo. TN
latter place was collod after the lat
President Lerdo, who lost his life here
"a victim TO the dreaded assassin WIN
iufests this country TO an alarming *
Kent.
South OF Lerdo we 20 through
series Of canyons aud come out az .it
melico on an open and eutlvatel
plateau Here the branch 10 the cit
Of Durango leaves the main lite of th
road Here also VIII be placed tn
machine shops of the road.
Diaz is now president Of the repui
lie, aud as he Is a friend 70 Americans
they (the Americans, / neau,} lave
hearty welcome to the country
RURK.