The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-03-10
MEXICO IN MIDWINTER.
LBy Justice Walter Clark, Ii D., of the SUI
preme Bench Of Mouth Cardinal

By Justice Walter Clark, Ii D., of the SU-
preme Bench Of North Cardinal
leaving New Orleans on the southern
Pacific II r one bright December
morning IN 1895 the route lay amid the
great sugar estates of southern LOuisI-
ana. the country being dotted with the
CaIl ChImneys of the sugar houses and
refneries, especially in the BAYOU Teahe
country, when is p -s3ibIy the best c
ton for sugar planting IN the UnlOn
Crossing the SABINE River into Texas
We travel thirty eight hours, or nine
hundred and fifty four miles, through
That truly Empire SAFE before reach
log 1t PaSO, and even then we are Stlll
III IeXaS, TOR the State boundary liz
several miles furtaur west FL PhsO
boasts that IL IS 3 central paint. b ing
twelve hundred and twenty four mites
from TIT Cry If Mexico, and abOut The
s.uIe distance Te-pcCjIveiy from New
OtIrl,us. San h,an lsc0. ard Kansas
City. rs inhabitants have the adGI
tlOGai rgGsCu f3r believing th9}T csJy
r0e cautr4j point IN the universe, JnGt
the SKY IT'S dONn st the same dieI nee
al around II. Many 6 m6n gJes
through lie thinking himself the zen
re aE.J viewing 3 wO.iJ 5ulo!y iT0El
Ills Own sfauup1i1C, tor no better
retH n, "nU8 on our long ruut"
through TrXas, We passed over Inc
brIGEe across the P-cu8 River, three
uuuGTed ard tWeH-y seven teeJ blgh,
DefnE the stcJnd highest bridge IL Cl0
world
Crossing the Ro GranAe, which is
hore q II gng stream IN nnidE inter, not
mach over ankle deep, We pass into
toe Uiu,trd Stute8 Of ne~cjc0, far sGch
Il the Off al ami legal ueeiEuat1ou Of
nus c .unLry, whi1n Is + federal r1puo
lie Of allied States, whose {: ms cation
III its maln features is d copy Of our
own TIE custom house ,fficiata, like
ali Mexj&aDs, ar8 very polIse, ana IN
deed n examination Of baggage IL not
mrch more thar q Formally. We iLd
thar the railroad C0ntu"tor5 and engi
Reers, and indeed most Of the station
AGENTS, are Americans. and the cars
and engines sre from the United ates
also. This il 90 a very large extent
tGu0 Of oil The railroads IN Mexico.
Toe railroad from E; PAsO 20 the
CITY OF Mexico must pAas Ov r almost
5ne Identical route used by the AZt6cs
on their march TO the same ci"y cen
suries ago. Through most OF the twelve
hundred and twenty four mIle6 from
+. P.;sO to tho C2ty OF Mexico, the rail-
road (Jha Mexican CcntraD passes
through the centre of Inc great plain
If the table lands. which average six
thousand ID seven thousand L Q ao0Vo
sen level. with mOunrala ranges on
elCGer hand, marking the edges where
the COun'ry ON either eide negIns to
descard TO the shore TIE first four
hundred and fifty miles is Through the
great plains of the State Of Chihuahua,
which is a stock c0uutry and tn1n!y
settled, the population being PRINCIPALLY
IN the mining towns IN the mountain
rsDges of from the line Of railway.
Along this route, however, u be
the sDortsman,s paradise, as game CT
ali kinds ia very abundant.
We then pass into the State OF Du
range ard run some seventy miles
along it's upper edge through a tine
farming country known as the Mapinis
section. where cotton is largely raised.
One insignifc mt station alone ships
forty thousand bales of cotton annually,
and as the valued of silver money has not
been artifc8lly doubled by legialatlo",
as with us, cotton brings it's normal price
of thirteen to fourteen cents per pound.