Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1891-08-14

he word Indian gives no Troper idea
oil these A2;ccs OF the nineteenth century.
They are nothing like or Indians i'll ap-
pearlnce or civilization. They are as adj
varccd as the lowest classes OF many
parts OF Europe, and they have manners
and 4 civilization peculiarly their own.
They Lave shown themselves possible of
great development, aud some of the most
striking mea in Mexican history have
come from them. Juarcz was an Indian;
llidalgo was an Indian and the President
Of Mexico TO- day-Senor Diaz-has some
Indian blood in his veins. The Congress
OF Mexico is largely made up of the de-
sccndarts of the AztecS, and it is be-
heved 10y many tnat the future possibili-
lies OF Mexico are 10 come from this race.
Tie pare Spaniards Of Mexico are few,
and they and tic people of mixed Indian
and Spanish blood make up, it is said,
less than onc-half OF the whole popua-
';nn. Still IT is from them that the
whole country has been judged in the
nasE. and II remains TO b: seen what the
INFLUENCE OF railroads and the consequent
development will have Of the masses
The best part of Mexico has not been
prospcctcd rs yet by the miners. 4 min
lng engineer VINO has been travelling in
the southern states Of the country tells
ne that tho great mines OF the future lie
III the soath rather than i'll the north.
SUI the north has been worked for aces,
and gold aad silver are turned ont there
ny the nliinas Of dollars worth every
year. Even the northern mining regions
~ l.,
H.vins, we'll Known American miner,
wio owns valuable property in the State
o: Gunaanuato, tells me that lie has Oh.
ia!mei concession for Il Philadelphia
syndicate to soiae wonderfully rich but
unknown gold territory on the western
coast Of the couatrv. Tic agricultural
resources Of Mexico are as little known
and have been as little tested as its
mines, and there is enough untitled land
here 10 feed the whole United States if it
were cultivated. Just now coffee plant
iag is being largely undertaken and new
sugar and coffee fields are being planted
IL Il number of the States.
America knows bu. little of the Mexico
IF the present. They would consider it
evidence Of ignorance ii Mexican
had never heard OF Che names of any one
OF the United States, but ninetv-ninc
Americans ont of one hundred cannot
name, without looking at the geography,
i've out of the twenty-sevcn States which
make up this great republic, and the mil
]orlty of them look upon the whole
country rs about rs large as one OF oar
medium sized States. The fact is Mex
leo is about as large rs the United States,
including Alaska, and il is six times as
large as Great Britain. 1t is more than
three times rs large as Germany, aud
you could lose three countries rs big as
France inside Of it. Across the top OF
1t, where. like great horn. it is fast
ened to the United States, it is rs long
as indianapolis is distant from New York
City, and a line drawn from the root OF
the horn at California catercorncrcd
across it to its tip at Guatemala would
DC as long us the distance from New
York to Denver. The horn is about $50
miles wide at the bottom or tip, and
about 500 miles wide at its roots where
1t Joins on to us. In its curve it en-.
braces the Gulf of Mexico, and the Pa
cific Ocean washes its other side. 1t is
not a smooth horn by any means. Great
mountains lie all along its top, and this
top is a vast rolling tablc-land, the most