The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-06-02

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! ing for the city Of Guadalaiara, fl 5oen
miles away. The river Lerme is here
five hundred aud sixty five feet wide
and it D0urs the waters from Lnke
ChaDaIa and al area of forty thousand
square miles over TIE shelf rCc& sixty
Eve feet at a single leap. Tnere are
smaller rapids above and b8iOw.
At Guadalajara we find p City Ct
over one hundred thousand inhabi
tauts. the second city in eiz9 in tbs re
nublic It is substantially build town,
for as IN ell Mexican cities u wooden
! building is almost unknown. In point
OF neatness it can be surpassed nc
where. The climate is as near Dertec-
ton as can be found. From O5tOber
to June, it realizes the poet laureate
dream OF the Island valley Of Avalon
Where falls not rain. nor hail, LOr any snow,
Nor ever wind bio VS. loudly.
From June to OcCOoer there are Iight,
misty showers, tWO Or three afternoons
probably each week.
TIE public squares, public buildings,
and institutions here are very hand
some and on a large scale. On one OF
the government buildings is the scrip
Gure passage in Latin MISS DGmimWa
cuStOdierSt cjUitGtem, fruStrG UjrQ5Lot
q~i Gus tOdjt eam' ( Exc pit the Lord
keep the city, the Waterman W0kebh
but in vain'). This reminds me that
| saw a few days Later inscribed over
the cathedral door at Coyoacan, the
home of COrteZ, another scripture text,
also in Latin, which vii be recognized
at once as the memorable declaration
of Jacob after his dream at Bethel,
Truly this is none other but the house
- n Il I'D chic - kL~ ~1E1 ~ I4n-@~ -
The famous H0spiciO at GuadaIajara
would be no dtscredit to NV York.
1t is a very extern i've charitable insti
open squares, bright, fragrant and re-
vestigatiOn | found all the prices about
eQualled thirteen cents in New Orleans,
tne tar # freight and charges making
it cost sixteen to seventeen CenGs at
Q I9retarO and eighteen to nineteen
cents at 0 4xaca, and they pay the To-
cal producer the New Orleans price
plus these charges. Mexico does not
produce enough cotton to clo5he all her
population. Her manufacturers buy
in New Orleans the quantity the coun-
try fails to produce. A few years ago
when their dollar and ours were equal,
they paid on an average thirteen cents
In New Orleans Now they still pay
thirteen cents In New O leans and il
the very same money, but owing to
the enforced enhancement IN the value
Of u money, by manipulated legisla
ton, this thirteen instead of be
ing still equal as 1t should honestly be
to thirteen cents IN our money Is only
equal to about seven cents Of cur 'iu
creased value" money. L le direct less
TO the cotton planter OF the South Is,
therefore, thirty dollars per bai8 or
two hundred millions annual loss to
the South on this crop. The same
Is true of the wheat and corn of the
West and al other crops, corn and
wheat being one dollar to one dollar
and forty cents per bushel in Mexico
in their cIrreuCy which has remained
IN value unchanged by Il gislatIon.
assertion about OvGTDrOUuGti0n IS
q my th, as the Countless thousands If
halt clothed and half fed people in the
United Safes know only too well. The
trouble Is IL the Legislative increase of
the value Of The dollar made n OrI,r
5haU those who live by clipping GU
pms from government, STATE and other
0und5, and On the publIc taxes, mag be
twice a. rich as t rnecly without aIy
additional eXGTUiCn. Thy are twice as
rich with the labor OF clipping only
the sam3 number OF coupons.
Leaving @ tecetaro We pass through
Euia. q mOHU Interesting and very an
Gent Guy, which, centuries before the
coming Of COrt' z. was the capital of
Mexico. Tie Interesting s.Ory OF its
RUNS and antiquities l5 admirably told
by Charnay. Farther on We chino the
mountain ram which e~ncjrcios the Val
ley Of Mexico, though rather 1t should
pe termed q double valley. Within 1t
lie three lakes, X ochOmilc0, Chaic0,
rCZcocO. In the days Of C0Tt6z the
waters of the latter 6nclrcling the City
of Mexico, making IL, though at the
OF seven thousand five hundred
feet above sea level, q western Venice
But tr qlent foundations and the 0Gfh
III the way Of proper sever
age rendered an outlet desirable. A
canalknOwu as the Pass of NOchistOngO
was begun II 1907 ana work was prose
cuted on 1t from time TO time for LearIy
5TO hundred years. 1t IS three hun
dred 10 SIX hundred feet wide, two
hundred feet deep, and tie length is
nearly seventy thousand feet. Our
railroad track runs along on the eQge
OF tie great cut. and we lCok down
from the Car windows into the va wn
ing Chasm below. This work 10 Wered
the ordinary level OF L ke Ttxclc3 SO
that It's shore Is now some three miles
from the city, but it Ia still capable ut
times Of invading the streets, anu the
city sewerage is very imperfect. A
new canal has been begun IN another
direction, thirty mics long, twenty
SIX feet wide, Il twenty feet OeiOw
Il main so IarG Of the CITY. and which
is { diechaJge the waters through a
tunnel seven miles long, TnLs wilt
probably be completed this year, when
s. goCd system OF sewerage and water
Wurke can be puJ III and Mexico should