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

that is imported is high, and great chance
LOT money-maklng is for Americans to go
10 Mexico, study the needs of the people
and to start factories for making the arti-
oles That are now SO highly protected by
the tariff. Take the matter of nails for in
stance, these cost from 16 to 25 cents per
pound, and they are so expensive that
great part Of the building of Mexico Is done
with ropes instead of nails. Here in Mex
leo City within stones throw of tie Itur-
plde MOTEL, an immense building is being
erected. The scaffolding about this build
Is tied together with ropes, the rafters
being spliced in this way. Many of the
nuts OF the southern part of the country
have roofs of thatch tied to rafters with
ropes, and some of these huts have not
nail in them. Few wooden build
lngs are known in Old Mexico.
The average house has neither
cellar nor garnet, and the fastenings, which
we make with nails, are ingeniously con-
structed with brick and mortar 1 have
seen fences where the boards and poles
were tied to the posts, and crate that I
got the other day to carry pottery in was
made of rods tied together with strin s.
All classes of building material are costly
mere. You have TO pay from S35 to $40 per
l,oOO Tor flooring, and glass is very high. A
great many of the cheaper houses have no
windows in the glass sense of the word
The openings are covered with iron bars
and are fastened at night with close wooden
shutters. 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 to-
wards the isthmuS of Panama is opening
up a coal and iron region and the American
capitalist that gets into this field soon is
bound to make big fortune.
CHANCES FOR MoNEY-MAKING IN MEXICO.
Mexico, in fact offers better chances for
the same amount of money, brains and
health to the investor, business man and
fortune-maker, than any other place in the
world today. Dnring my stay Of two
months in Mexico l have travelled over u
large part of the country, and 1 have met
hundreds of Americans, some of whom
were delighted with the people and their
surroundings 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 sit
uation and making fortunes. AS to climate.
there is no better climate in the world than
that of the Mexican plateau. We rush for
the White mountains in the summer and
we consider ourselves happy if we can live
during July and August on the top of
NlOuut w dSuluBGuu SJlll all THIS Mexican
plateau which makes up should say more
than three fourths of Mexico, is higher up
in the air than Deer park or Oresson and
much of it is higher than Mount
Washington. Here you have per-
petual summer the year round. The air is
always pure and is one loug June day sum
mer and winter, spring and autumn. Veg
etables of all kinds are in the market all
The time, and strawberries in parts of the
country are always ripe. For peo-
pie with diseases of the lungs or the
digestion the climate is cure all, and |
have met score of healthy looking Ameri
cans who told me they had been sent to
Mexico to die. l am no heavy weight nv
sell, and my average is about one hundred
pounds, still L have never felt better than
during the weeks 1 have been in Mexico
and the air braces one up as overcharged
with champaign. This country is about
one-ffth the size of the United States.
1t has, until within the past twelve years.
been turn up with revolutions and it's peo.
pie have not had time to look into their
own poverty and see what they have. No
good geological survey has ever been made
of Mexico. Its agricultural recources
have never been estimated and its mining
territory has never been fully prospected.
There are now more than two thousand