The herald., 1896-09-20

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Farm laborers, from 25 to As cents q
day.
LIST OF WAGES.
Paid by one of the largest industrial
and commercial institutions in the coun-
try:
Laborers in factory, 621s cents to s1.OO
per day.
Skilled labor in factory, from $1.50 to
$3.50 per day.
Mechanics. $500 per day.
Office clerks. $50 90 to $4,000 per month.
Stenographers, $4,000 to $4,000 per
| month.
Travelling representatives, from S125
| to 5000 per month and eXpensel
Agents, from $75 to $3.50 per month.
AS to the wages paid farm laborers, as
included in the above, 1t is necessary to
add the explanation that large part
| of the farming is done on shares. AL
| most the entire corn crop, which is the
| most important crop, is raised on shares
by the poems. Under their arrange
ment with the land owner, they are fur
| nished with the seed. a house to live IN,
animals to do the work, and receive half
| the crop. Laborers of the lower class,
| directly employed by the Haciendas,
| usually receive in addition to their wag-
es. a piece of land for their own use.
| and are allowed certain number or
| days each week to devote to its Guilt
/
| of the HaciendaS are paid in cash. 1hat
| they are not robbed or tyrannized over is
| shown by the large number who nave
| become the possessors of valuable es-
| tates, or risen to the highest polltlcai
positions. Three of the most prominent
presidents of the republic sprang from
| this class.
| Twenty-seveu years of observation in
| this country, good part OF Wnlch mas
in tha min
villages of the interior, has convinced
! me that there exists a no more content
ed or Independent parsonage than the
Mexican peon. The comparison OF our
peon or Indian class with either the ne
gro of the south or the blanketed ward
of the federal government, as found on
their reservations, whose only excuse
for existence is to make necessary an
Indian department. with its attendant
horde of office-holders and office-seek-
ers, can only serve to produce smile on
the face of one who is familiar with our
Indian class.
No better proof of the constantly in
creasing prosperity of this country is
found than in the following figures rel
ative to the increased revenues of the
government and of our leading corpora
tons:
The fiscal year ending June 3Oth, 1856,
$2S, $50, S95.76.
The fiscal year ending June SOth, 1895.
$43 945, $500.
Earnings per mile operated, by the
Mexican Central railway, fiscal year
ending June 30th, 1886, 50, S5S.5O.
Fiscal year ending June 80, 1895, So
1O577, showing an approximate increase
of 100 per cent.
For the first six months of the present
year, the earnings of the Mexican Gen.
trail show an increase over 1895 of $751;
1888. This in spite of the fact that there
exists at the present time a rate war
which has resulted in the handling of
freight at greatly reduced rates.
Exports for this republic of agricul-
tural, mineral and manufactured pro-
ducts, for the first six months of the
fiscal year just closed, show an increase
of $40, 394 ,344 or approximately % per
cent over the preceding year.
Imports for the first six months of the
fiscal year just closed, show an increase
of $2,244,607 gold, or approximately II
per cent over the preceding year.
The customs receipts for the fiscal year
Just closed show an increase
of $3,S73,757 over the preceding year, Is
per cent approximately.
There is not railroad in the republic
in the hands of receivers.
The following are the dividends de-
clared at the end of the last fiscal year
by the concerns indicated, which are
in the Republic: Campania Industrial
Manufacturers, which represents an in
vestment of 50, 800, 900 cash, and is capital
lied for $4,000. 900, pays per cent on the
into the reserve IuIlu. Tins vvinpany
manufactures cotton goods.
Eel Buen Toro. which is one of the
cleanest and best managed tobacco
manufactures in the world, and which
manufactures among other brands La
Mascota, is capitalized for $1,000,000
pays Is per cent dividends, and puts 10
per cent into the sinking fund.
The Compania Industrial de Orizaba
the largest cotton manufacturing es-
tablisbment in the country-declares 25
per cent dividend on it's capital stock
The San Antoine Abad company is
capitalized for s1,Oo0OOO and pays. 20
per cent. The capital stock of this COM
pany has lately been increased to ST.
$50, 600 The new issue of stock was
sold at a premium of so per cent on it's
par value.
The above includes the largest cotton
mills. There are a large number of
mills owned by private parties, which
are not incorporated, the profits of
which are not known but judging
from the improved machinery they are
putting in, and the manner in which
the business of most of them is being
extended, it is known they are prosper
Gus.
one or the largest CONTAGIOUS III tHe
city, who constantly employs in the
neighborhood of 100 native carpenters,
pays his men from seventy-five cents
| to $3.50 per day. His American bosses
receive Sc per day. The wages paid in
one of the largest wood working estab
! lishments in the city are from I.12 to
| 81 for carpenters. CarVerS receive
| from 50 upwards.
| 1t is true that this country, like all
others, has its dissatisfied class. Those
who draw their livelihood from the i'm
portation and sale of foreign goods
| have felt very seriously the competi-
| ton of the native manufacturer, who,
aided by the premium on gold, is grad
ually driving them out of the market.
The importers are, of course, very
| much dissatisfied with the present
| financial and commercial state of af-
fairs in this country.
! On the windows or doors of over fifty
establishments in this city at the pres
ent time the following notice is posted:
"Se solicta oficiales." (Help wanted.)
| (Signed) A. V. TEMPLE.
City of Mexico, Sept. Z, 1896.