Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-09-05
MEXICO AND HER WAYS.
WHAT ROSWELL p. FLOWER o8-
SERVED DURING A RECENT VISIT.

OEhNCO DAJENiINC ~ FN1NGiNN NlOl
Advantages of the Mexican Pacific Road.
Mining and Machinery-Coubtry and
CIimate-Twenty Great Cities-How the
Natives wnrk-TraveI.
We ought to have Mexico for our neighbor
and business friend, with perfected inter
tours, The Mexican Pacific road gives Us a
wonderful opportunity to reach out into this
,oumtry and develop 1t. Our Ieople have no
.d,.i what It Is. The great hulk Of the people
are still in a. primitive n state uS those along
he Nile N"u may them in sandals,
nalf-nak,vI, h"ariug burdens ON their heads,
hlborlu- in the old primitive ways Of which
We read Why at ZacatccaS there Is Il mine
that has b,rn operated for 30 years 1t was
I.rught hy an En.iI~h company and put in
,.Lar,-r 1T a zen Howard. The finest mining
machinery was bought and sent 10 him. He
couldn't u~. II in competition with cheap
native labor. aui to-day th- descendants Of
thu Indians WIN up"nri the mine - years
agu are carving cut the ore an their backs
Just IA, their ancestors did They get twenty
live cents a day. Machinery can't compete
with that.
FINE COUNTRY AND CLIMATE,
There arr. 7uD mIl,eS Of the MeNIcaH Pacific
road running through as tine a country as the
world ever saw at an elevation of about
1,OUu feet above the s'a- In these fields saw
twenty yoke Of oxen mitchell to a single one
pointed plow. You see donkeys on the streets
with dressed mutton, lamb or beef hanging
from the saddle. while the master leddes 1t
out The air l. 50 dry that the meat dos not
spoil in it. They carry trunks around on
heir barkS At the mu~t n two wheeled don
key cart i used. \ wagon man went down
there to sell wagons, and could do nothing at
all. until one day in the plaza he uuhitched
SIX pairs Of mules from one Of their carts,
put them on a wagon and demonstrated that
he could pull with the mules four times as
much in "A wagon as they had drawn n a
art He sold luu wagons right away.
They u~' Ittcrs for great many burdens
You will So, two men stuck between the han
dies Of litter in the City Of Mexico, carry
ihy coffin and a dead man out beyond the
limits There they iii. a hole IN the ground
about two and one half feet deep, throw in
the corpse, cover it up and return the coffin.
4 funeral Gusts about fifty cents. W hen the
Mexican Pacific road was being built, those
III charge gave the men shovels with long
handles. They bad been using shOvels with
handles about two feet long, which made
rhem stcop down to the ground. They said
the long shovclS were un good, and proceeded
to break of the handles and continue their
back breaking method After u time they
got ACCUSTOMED to the shovels Now here are
a people among whom a wonderful trade can
bc dcveluVe1L 1t only needs a commercial
treaty to assure manufacturers that prices
are To L. steady to make Mexico a most valu-
able nei .hbor and ally.
TWENTY GREAT CITIES.
The cities are extremely pOpulOus From
FL PaSO 10 Mexico City there must be twenty
great cities with populations ranging from
1900 up to l2OcO. Except in Mexico there
Is little or 10 civilization In one Of these
cities | saw great camphene torches suspended
at the street corners for lighting. In the City
of Mexico YOU will find electric light, gas,
telephones and everything of that kind. In
the most Of the cities You will find kerosene.
Ii they could have the lamps and other ar
tirleS which we manufacture at something
like our rates il wOulI make q sOnderful mar
kyt. \ great many Germans and English
have gone into Mexico recently and bought
farming lands which they are working with
modern plows and machinery They will
soon force the natives to Use the same imple-
mrnts and we might supply them all We
can get from them coffee, sugar, hides and
many things that do not interfere with our
own productions tn any extent.
WIS the triyoiIRg companion for a time OF
Senator Hearst and joaquin Miller They
were down there to investigate the mining
possibilities Senator Hearst told me that,
although Mexico was for many decades the.
principal source of the works. supply of sill
yer and much of It's gold. and although some.
Of her rirh mines have been worked for cen
turieS, the richest mines have never been
opened at all They lie back in the country
and have been wholly Inaccessible They re
quIrc spurs of railroad to reach and develop
them even now.
Travel there l. unaccOmpanied by any dan
ger The railroad system Will soon do for
Mexico and the United States what the OPEN
inS Of railroads to Savannah Atlanta and
New Orleans did for the south. The railroad
makes Mexico feel oPor \ new railroad al
most always impoverlSheS its projectors and
the people along the line Mexico has an in
come of 81 OJO,OOO n year, with SSD,OUO.OUO
of expenses 1t Is unable to meet the grants
to the railroad. But found President DIaz
hopeful and sensible of the future He sees
that the railroad, by enabling him to mass
troops anywhere III the country has made
revolutions impossible and will give the
country permanent peace, under which it will
speedily thrive. The government feels so
strongly ON this point that rObber along the
line of the road meets with severe punish
ment. This Is making travel more secure
every day.-New York Tribune Interview.