St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-12-03
year, and at any desired temperature,

year, and at any desired temperature,
without
ARTIFICIAL HEAT
and il the baths were located in any
part of an enterprising country they
prove a veritable gold mine for the
owner.
The hot water which passes through
the different bath houses is carried off
by small canal, which stream for
about half a mile below is utilized by
the common people who cannot afford
to pay for bath. Almost every fore
noon and afternoon this canal is lined
with crowd of men, women and chill
dren, all bathing together. Their bath
ing costumes are decidedly brief and
consist chiefly of full dress suit OF
complexion, though some hide their
nakedness with about as much clothing
as adOrn the modern statues.
They scrub away seemingly uncon-
Scious of their nudity, and really one
feels disposed to pardon their immod-
esty when he realizes that they are not
making wanten display of their
shapely limbs for effect, as do our
bathers at the sea shore. but are there
simply for the purpose of getting
bath, the need of which you will not
question after further acquaintance
with their wretched mode of living.
A short run from Agnas Calliente
brought us to the old and unchanged
town Queretaro. for which time seems
to have stood still in his fight, as no
undermining influences of any nature
seems to be at work there. Some one
very aptly said of this place, In Quere-
taro it is always about A. ID. 1910, and 4
O'Clock in the afternoon" Even the
brilliant sunshine, with which the air
seems drenched, hesitateS to fade away
into the soft twilight.
While at the last-named place the
writer visited the desolate little knob
near the town, where about twenty
three years ago the ambitious Maximil-
liam and his loyal generals, Miramon
and Meja, were shot as a penalty for
their brilliant, but vain attempt to es-
tablish an empire on Mexican soil.
The spot is dreary, lonesome
and neglected place, and the three small
adobe monuments which mark 1t are
perfectly blank and bear no names or
dates, to indicate the historical event
The famous apal mines are near Quere-
tora, and after spending day there you
will feel convinced that half the popula-
ton are in the apal business, so persist
ent are the dealers. From Silao. which
is north of Queretora, to the City OF
Mexico you pass through the splendid
farming and fruit valleys. Delicious
old style oranges and bananas are here
offered you in abundance and IN all
their pristine freshness for cent each,
whilst you will be introduced to dozen
other varieties of fruits which you have
never before met. While passing
through this section one can form an
adequate idea of the
EXTENSIVE SCALE
of farming in Mexico and the method
employed. There is no season for
planting crops in Mexico. AS soon as
one crop is gathered another follows in
quick succession, and thus one field
will produce in twelve months as many
as four crops of the same grain, ard III
fruitfulness, the soil, if properly lrrl-
gated, will yield more per acre than Is
even dreamt OF in our Northwestern
states.
There are as rich mines in Mexico as
in any country, but the rich soil OF her
valleys will. if cultivated rightly, turn
out ten fold more dollars in the end for
the labor and capital invested than her
best mines.
In talking with the agricultural i'm
plement statesmen, of whom there are
quite a number in the Republic, the
writer was told that it took an almost
unlimited dickering and persuasion TO
substitute improved machines for
the old and crude TOOLS OF
past generations. In one hela,
near Silao, which we passed,
there were over an hundred Pe0nS WIN
OK teams, busily engaged scratching uD
the ground for new crop with the an
Gent wooden blows cut from the forks
of trees. and which entirely devoid of
iron or steel. However, even with
these antiuuated implements and the
curious modes employed. most abundant
crops are raised, which, however, are
ONLY intimations of the yield possible
with our modern c0ntrlvanceS ana
newer methods of farming.
Some of the more enterpriSlng farm
ers have already discarded the old ways
and have substituted the
AMERICAN IDEAS
and implements. and are astonlshed at
the results. However, the Introduction
of our farming machinery into Mexico
has but begun, and for manufacturers
of that line of goods this is undoubtedly
the coming country. Occasionally the
steam threSher could be seen at work
along the road, but only few miles
further the next farmer would De
slowly treading his wheat out with
burros and goats in the most wasteful
manner possible. OF course the eX-
IRENE cheapness of labor is strong
argument these people use against
Iabor-saving machines. The farm
laborers only get one and a half bit, or
is cents day for days work, and 3
cents of that small pittanee is paid them
in corn.
An administrator, or overseerer, re-
marked that the only way he could keep
his men was to pay them as little as
they could possibly live on, for If he
gave them for one days work enough to
keep them two days they wouldn't work
the second day at any price. During
the past five years, however, Mexico has
made wonderful progress for nation
that is proverbially slow to adopt new
WAYS, and her future can but be bril-
liant.
The impossible barriers of ages have
been destroyed by the numerous lines
of railroads now trayersing the repub-
lie, and by the invitation of her people
the outside world is now Waging a
peaceabIe and bloodiess warfare that
can but lead to the ultimate conquest OF
this Quaint land of eternal sunshine.
w. G. r.
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