San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-11
MEXICAN CORRESPONDENCE.
The Ore Business and its Results
Within the Montezuma Capital
Stock Notes.
City of Mexico, Sept. 6. 'S9.

about the new tangled ore tariff upon
the U. S. frontier that I, for one,
have not had good spirits enough
lately to write to you. Add to this,
the depressing influence of the wet
atmosphere here, and you will at
once perceive why dampness has
settled upon the spirit of my dreams.
August opened, at last, the flood
gates of heaven upon the Halls OF
the Mocteuczomas, and at length,
after all the crops in the valley of
Mexico, had failed, on account of the
drouth, let us have rain to more than
our hearts content. Even now
as l write, 6 p. M, we are
catching it. At p. M. today we had
three distinct and pretty severe
shocks of earthquake, but as yet we
know of no particular damage done,
except to the knees of the pants of the
men and the dresses of the women
who by hundreds were kneeling and
praying in the muddy streets. The
sanitary state of old TenoXtitlan Is no
better nor no worse than usual there
is no epidemic here, nor any of "yel-
low-jack" as yet in Vera Cruz. The
municipal authorities here, in order
to reduce the smallpox rate amongst
the Indians and the lower class of
Mexicans, have made vaccination OBJ
igatory, and the police daily corral
lots of kids, take them to the
"Comisaria," and force them to
undergo vaccination, and are so zeal
GUS in their performance of duty, that
they round up nurses with babies In
nd 4 in, al fn no
cinated. Tis a good measure, even if
carried a little too extremes. Jim Lane
Esq, of Eagle Pass, arrived here yes
terday morning, after very stormy
passage of eight days with over six
hundred head of as fiue and smooth
beeves from Santa Gertrudis, Nueces
county, Texas. as ever came to this
market. They were already sold here
to Gonzales Il Verduzco, the wealthy
beef men of Mexico, and Jim will re-
turn in d few days, to bring on anoth-
er large lot. He and his partner Jim
Riddle Esq, of Piedras Negras, Mex,
are the pioneers of the beet-cattle bus
mess in this city, and although many
others have come here, and, making
use of their experience have
given them very close COM
petition and by cutting prices have re-
duced the profits to very close mar
gin, with great risk, nevertheless
they still hold the fort, and will con-
tinue to do so. They are practical
stock men, and in business as well as
socially are very well liked here.
They are thoroughbreds, and "blood
will tell" Mr.. John w. Glass, the
heaviest shipper of tat hogs from
Kansas City, is now in San Luis Po-
tosi resting with his family so as to
give chance to several parties, who
have tried to mOnOpOlise the hog
shipping business here by cutting
down prices to nothing to ship and
ruin themselves and their hackers,
and then he will quietly resume his
shipments as before. There are "no
flies upon Mr.. Glass, land he also will
hold the fort against all attacks
as long as he can do it without posi-
tive loss. IT'S strange that some
people are so envious that they want
the entire universe. Live and let
live" is our motto, and is good one
too, but some folks ignore it entirely
and In their greed overreach them
selves and take grand tumble in the
end.
1t seems from late events that indi-
Viduals are not the only selfish ones
in the world, but that governments
also take hand once in a while. See
what Secretary Window has done for
American interests in Mexico by his
recent rulings upon Mexican ores.
He has catered to the desires of seven
or eight milliOnaires in Colorado, and
by foolish law has injured greatly if
not ruined the business prospects
of tens of thousands, both in
Mexico and the United States
The smelters of the west all need the
low-grade ores of Mexico as fuX. and
must have them or shut up shop. The
American built railroads of Mexico
relied almost exclusively upon the
transportation of them for their ex-
penses, and are now suffering terribly
through the lack of them, whilst
hundreds of mines here, producing
low grade ores, land owned and worked
by American capital, have been
obliged to reduce their working force
or close down altogether. Had this
state OF affairs emanated from the
Mexican government, what a holy
hoWI would have gone up to heaven
from the L. S. side of Jordan. What
then must be our surprise to get
it right in the neck from the
"best and most paternal government
in the wOrld"!!! Such is life.
And now comes the sequel, l. g. re-
taliation. We have got it. On the
3rd of September, President Diaz is
sued a law putting an importation
duty upon all live stock imported into
Mexico. This was until that date
duty free, with the eXception of Geld