Arizona republican., 1898-02-22
IMPRESSIONS OF MEXICO.
Governor McCord's View of Its Pres
 ent and Future.

Governor McCord was asked yester- day regarding his impressions Of Mexico. "It should be remembered, he said, ''that Mexico has only been republic with any degree of rest about twenty years. No people unoer the sun can progress while continually torn up with war or internal strife. Since Mexico has been enjoying the benefits of a comparatively stable gov ernment or since President Diaz has had full control, I think it has pros pered as we'll as could have been ex- pected That part of MeX1co through which I passed has some possibilities as an agricultural and horticultural country and with good system or IT, rigation it's possibilities would De great. Its cattle industry is quite large and growing; it has some man ufacturing in the way of making clothes, blankets, hats, shoes, lumber, matches, baskets, etc., but I judge it's principal industry is mining. Thou sands of men are engaged in mining all over the state of Sonora. Some in placering, some with arastras and some in quartz mining. Many thousands cf ions of ore in quartz are shipped by sailing vessels from Guaymas to Eu- rope, the vessels going around the horn being loaded out with ores and back with iron, sugar, wines, dates, coffee, tea and other products used by those engaged in mining. One whole sale house in Guaymas carries an av- craze stock exceeding in value one million of dollars.
 q did not have much time to study the methods of governing in Sonora, but I learned one thing that was very gratifying and which if followed up will be a great benefit to the people of that state in the near future, and that is that forty per cent Of all the revenue or budget, as they call 1t, col lected in the state of Sonora is ex- pended for schools. These schools are very fair and are constantly being lm- proved. The English language IS now taught in nearly all the schools Of the state. I met the governor and all the principal officers of the state and was glad to learn that they are all able, intelligent and worthy men who have the interests of the state and the people at heart Governor Corral is an able man. a tireless worker for the interests of his state, and is doing much in many ways to develop its re- sources and build it up. He is a man about forty years old, who has grown m from the ranks of the people and is what we would call a self-made man. By his energy and great business abll- ity he has accumulated large for tune and is using it to develop the country. There is hardly an enter prise in the state that he is not in- terested in and they are all prosper ing, showing that he is a man of great resources. I wish we had a dozen such men as Governor Corral in Arizona.
 "One does not have to travel far il ~ Mexico to observe an object lessor sufficiently forcible to convince him o1 the fallacy of free coinage of silver when it is sure to place the govern ment that so coins it on a silver basis Mexico, as everybody knows, is on { silver basis and has no gold what ever in circulation. One cannot eve1 buy one dollar in gold in Mexico fo two dollars in silver. There is toda. less money in circulation in Mexlc' per capita than in any other cOuntr, that is on a bimetallic basis, and tn laboring man is poorer paid. ;
 "The laborer in Mexico upon rail roads and public works-which posi-
 tions are so hard to obtain that the go more or less by favor-receives fror
 one dollar to one dollar and twenty five cents day. This is scarcely equa to sixty cents day in American none
 and the purchasing power of this sixt