Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-09-13

rods tied together with strings. All classef
OF building material are costly here. You
have to pay from S35 to $40 a thousand for
flooring, Sand glass is very high. A great
many of the cheaper houses have no win
dows, In the glass sense of the word. The
openings are covered with iron bars and are
fastened at night with close wooden shut
ters. Iron has during past years been
largely imported from Belgium, and there
is good chance for American iron. The
new railroad which is being built south
toward the Isthmus of Panama is opening
up a coal and iron region, and the American
capitalist who gets into this field soon is
bound to make a big fortune.
CHANCES FOR RMoNEY-MAKING IN MEXICO.
Mexico, in fact, offers better chances for
the same amount of money, brains and
health of the investor, business man and
fortune maker, than any other place in the
world to-day. During my stay of two
months in Mexico 1 have travelled over a
large part of the country, and have met
hundreds of Americans, some of whom were
delighted with the people and their sur
roundings, and others of whom were
thoroughly disguised with them. Among
them all, however, did not find one man
who did not think that the chances for
money-making were greater here than any
where else in the world, and hundreds of
Americans are taking advantage of the situ-
alton and making fortunes.
As to climate, there is no better climate
in the world than that Of the Mexico
plateau. We rush for the White Mount
aims in the summer, and we consider our
selves happy if we can live during July and
August on the top of Mt. Washington.
Still all this Mexican plateau which
makes up I should say more than
three-fourths of Mexico is higher
up in the air than Deer Park or
Cresson, anG much of it is higher than Mt.
Washington. Here you have perpetual
summer the year around. The air is al
ways pure and is one long June day summer
and winter, spring and autumn. Vegetables
of all kinds are in the market all the time,
and strawberries in parts of the country are
always ripe. For people troubled with dis
eases of the lungs or the digestion the Gil
mate is a cure all, and have met score of
healthy looking Americans who told me
they had been sent to Mexico to die. 1 am
no heavy weight myself. and my average is
about 100 pounds. Still have never felt
better than during the weeks l have been
in Mexico, and the air braces one up as
overcharged with champagne.
ITS UNKNOWN RESOURCES.
No good geological survey has ever been
made of Mexico. Its agricultural resources
have never been estimated and its mining
territory has never been fully prospected.
There are now more than 2, 900 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 richer part of Mexico than that now
known. Take for instance the field of man.
ufactures. At Monterey some Philadelphia
capitalists, and not very large capitalists
either, started a knitting factory about
year ago. They got a commission from the
Governor of the State providing that they
should be the only knitting factory in it for
25 years, and they are now turning 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 smelters in
Monterey, which are both making money,
and understand that Seagur, Guernsey &
Co. have established pillow foundry near
Pueblo and are doing we'll. There is a fur
niture factory at Monterey run by Amer
leans which is doing we'll, and the furniture
field is one that can be worked with profit
all over Mexico. You have here the hnest
wood in the world. Still, all furniture is
imported Where ebony, mahogany and
all kinds of hard wood are found in the
forest there is no reason why Mexico should
not export furniture instead of import it.
The cost of any kind of furniture is enor-
nous.
BIG MONEY IN PAPER MAKING.
There is big field here for the making of
paper All kinds of stationery are i'm
ported and the prices are exorbitant The
only kinds made here are the coarser varie-
ties of printing paper, and with its great
number of fine fbers there is no reason why
Mexico should not make as beautiful paper
as they turn out in Japan. There are now
"a cotton factories in the country and a
dozen odd woolen mills There is no doubt
but that it is the greatest mining country in
the world, and the precious metals of the
next 20 years will come largely from here.
In the State of Vera Cruz, near Tempico,
there are vast beds of asphalt and asphalt
fountains, which have been bought by two
young Americans, and the product of which
will soon come into competition with the
Trinidad asphalt. This asphalt does not
need to be dug. 1t bubbles up out of the
ground and can be turned into barrels, and
by the time this letter is published the
agents of the company will be offering it
for sale to some of the big American cities.
FRANK G. CARPENTER