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

Of which is mile above the sea. 1 had
imagined this great Mexican plateau,
which runs from the north to the south
throughout the entire country, to be 4
fiat. 1t is rolling and is made up of des-
crit wastes, rich valleys and of mountains
which have for the past 200 years been
furnishing great part of the gold aud
silver of the world.
the coast you have the tropics with all
Of their rich vegetation, their fruits, and
also, learn, their tigers aud tarantulas.
In the higher mountain regions it is cold,
but on this Mexican plateau you find the
ideal climate of the world. This plateau
constitutes the greater part of Mexico,
and this may be called the climate OF
Mexico, Here the climate is the perfcc.
tion of pleasant June in Ohio the wear
around. The air is as pure as that which
sweeps over Egypt from the desert i'll
winter time, aud south Italy and Greece
can furnish no more beautiful skies than
these.
Mexico is n land of good sized cities.
Its capital, which is away Mt the south,
has more than 100000 inhabitants.
Gaudalahara has 100, 900, and there are
number of towns, the names of which
are practically unknown to us, which
have twenty-five thousand and upward.
1t is land Of many climates. Along
Think OF country where the crops
grow III luxuriant greenness all the year.
Where the rose grows into trees and
flowers bloom forever. saw Yesterday
In IN
held While other men were planting the
same crops at the other. Upon parts OF
this plateau Strawberries arc ripe during
every week of the year and everything
seems to grow at any time it s planted
The rule about Silao is two crops of
wheat from the same ground a year and
see that i'll harvesting the wheat is
pulled, root and all, from the ground,
and this mir and sun form the only man
ure. This part of the Mexican plateau
is like garden. There is some irraga-
ton, but i'll many places the crops grow
without it, aud l rode for miles yester.
day through lands which were us rich rs
guano aud us black rs the rich soil that
makes GLAD the valley of the Nile The
lands along the coast are, am told, even
richer than these uplands and the bcauti-
full valley in which Mexico Cityis located
is one OF the garden spots of the world.
Mexico City is about 1000 feet above tho
sea.
The Mexican plateau is not, however,
by any means all green. There are vast
deserts like those of Arizona and Nevada.
and in coming here through the grea,
State Of chihuahua on the Mexican Cen
trail Railroad l travelled for two days
through binding blaze of dusty sand
in which the only green thing was the
cactus, which grows there in all lis
beauty and in all its uglincss. These
deserts are in some places fiji for grazing
aud MeX,caus tell me that ON them arc to
be the great cattle raising grounds of the
future. Vast tracts of them will be re-
deemed by irrigation and thousands of
acres have already been reclaimed. The
land when irrigated makes splendid cot
ton ground, and ore tract produced 81
600 bales last year. a number of new
companies are now being formed and
Americans are largely interested in them
The low lands which slope from tic
plateau down to the coast do no: need
irrigation. They have an immense rain
fall during the rainy season aud vegeta-
ten grows rs rank as that OF the iuugles
of India.
Tie whole Of this country partakes OF
The Orient. The moment YOU cross the
Rio Graude you are in the lands of the
romantic cast rather than in the practical
west. The air, the SKY and nature are
those of Palestine il spring time, and
the architecture reminds yoa now OF
Moorish Spain and again OF the mud huts
OF Egypt. The people are among the
most picturesque on the globe. Every
man is Il fit ubiccr for painting, and
the American artist, Mr.. Church, who
has spent seven winters in Egypt sketch
ing, says he finds Mexico IA much more
fertile field than the wcll-workcd coun-
tries of Europe. AS soon rs l crossed
the Rio Grande I saw at every station
iusty brigand-likc men, with handsome
dark faces shining out from great som
Drcros, the crowns OF which came to Il
point foot above their heads, and the
brims of which seemed 10 he foot wide
all around. These hats were gorgeous
in their silver and gold trimmings. Some
Of them had ropes of silver around them
almost ms thci- rs your wrist, and they
formed only part of the glitterng COS
tunes of these Mexican dudes. The
clothes below them shone with silver but
tons and braid. The pantaloons of some
OF the men were striped with silver