The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-13

lines of new railroad being built in the
country. These roads go into states which
heretofore have been penetrated only on
mule back, or by stage lines, and they open
up what IS said to be a richer part of Mex
leo than now known.
MANUFACTURING FIELD.
Take for instance the field of manufac-
lures. AT Monterey some Philadelphia
capitalists. and not very large capitalists
either, started knitting factory about a
year ago. They got concession from the
governor of the state providing that they
should be the only knitting factory in it for
twenty five years, and they are now turn
Ing out 200 dozen pairs of stockings per day.
The duty on stockings is so great that they
can sell at high profit. They use Mexican
girls to work their machines, and they are
making lots of money. There are two big
American shelters in Monterey, which are
| both making money, and | understand that
Seagur, Guernsey 81 Co. have established
plow foundry near Pueblo and are doing
well. There is a furniture factory at
Monterey run by Americans, which is
doing well, and the furniture field is one
that can be worked with profit all over
Mexico. You have here the finest wood in
the world. Still all furniture is imported.
Where ebony, mahogany and all kinds of
hard wood are found in the for
est, there is no reason why Mexico
should not export furniture instead of
import It. The cost OF any kind of
furniture is enormous. Desks which cost
S25 in the United States sell for 500 in
Mexico city, and the cheapest of school
desks are 50 apiece. Furniture imported
into Mexico pays duty by weight, and am
told that all kinds of hard wood furniture
have to pay % cents pound before they
can cross the frontier. Then there is a
state duty, the heavy freight rates and
other items which double the cost of almost
any article imported. There is an Ameri-
can furniture store in Mexico city which is
making great deal of money by importing
American furniture and selling it here. and
there is German here who has gotten
| rich out OF furniture selling. He sells par
lor suites all the way from $500 to 81. 500 a
set. There are number of cotton fac
tories in Mexico, and there are number
of large mills near Orizaba, which make
print goods. Everything is protected mere
by the highest duties, and almost any kind
OF factory ought to pay.
CATTLE AND PACKING INTERESTS
Mexico City will soon have the biggest
pork packing establishment in the world
This is built with Mexican capital. but is
engineered by Americans, and it promises
to control the meat market In Mexico Citv.
It is called the Mexican Packing COMPANY.
anu us neaQ is az ASteC millionaire named
Serano, who started life as meat peddler
and who is now one of the richest business
men In Mexico City. The American end
of this establishment is the firm of Morris
& Butte, who own a packing house at Kan
sas City and who are managing this big
establishment here. They have constructed
a vast house on the American plan, with
machinery of the latest kind, and they pro-
pose to make soap and ice, and a half a
dozen articles, in addition to supplying
the capital with all kinds of meat
Their building consists of an old
church containing vast area, aud thew
have added to this and remodeled until
they have wonderful establishment.
They have their own cars for the shipping
of the pigs from the United States to
Mexico and they will probably make big
fortunes for themselves and the Meyicans
who are connected with them. The discov-
cry of the new coal fields and the iron mines
in Oaxaca opens up big field of manufac-
lures of all kinds Of ironwork and there is
a big field here for the making of paper.
All kinds of stationery are imported and
the prices are exhorbitaut The only kinds
made are the coarser varieties of printing
paper and with its great number of fine
fbres there is no reason why Mexico
should now make as beautiful:paper as they