El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-01-14
Mexican Notes.


the United States during the next ten
years is something that can hardly be
estimated The country is developing
Is only . country that for years has
been held back by constant internal
wars, can develop at the end OF the
nineteenth century, now that Pooo
government is assured aud appreclae-
ed AS an instance OF what hos been
dose in Mexico the foreign manager OF
oreof the largest American baking
powder companies recently told Mod
ern Mexico that their business had in
creased 100 per cent every year for the
last seventeen years The bicycle bust
ness ia at present. discOunting this re-
cord several times over:
The culture of indian rubber in Mex
leo is receiving much attention Just
now. There a-e wonderful profits in
the business, but as in coffee raising
the trees do not come into bearing for
several years. The prospective Mex
lean agriculturist with limited capital
should by all meaus investigate the
profits lat are at present to be made
from the staple cereals and from stock
roiS4"s' rr.r 2e& / tfii
The. cotton textile mills of Mexico
form one of the most prosperous indus
tries in the country. During the year
just closed their output has been great
ly Increased and improved in many
ways. The result has been to decrease
the amount of foreign textiles used in
Mexico, . decrease that amounted dur
ing the year just closed to Is per cent.
Mexico 10 governed. and it 10 now
generally conceded that she is we'll
governed, more econOmi ally than any
other country. The entire budget ex-
penses of the republic now reach about
fifty million Mexican silver dollars per
year, considerably less than 1t costs
New York City in gold for it's govern
ment.
During the year just closed Mexico
increased the amount of railroad iron
and steel purchased from Great Britain
fully so per cent.
The Sonora railway has contracted
with the Bo'eo company, OF Santa Ro-
salia, Lower California, to move $4,000
tons of copper matte AMI bullion per
anuum, and the first train load was de-
livered at Quay mas, December 3. The
freight win 60 to New Orleans, pass
ing through the United States in bond,
thence by steamer to Europe. To
handle this heavy TIA ffic the company
will put on more trains, improve the
track and increase side-track room.
A Nogales correspondent writes:
1.-THE season of the Sonora orange is
now in full blast. Shipments are going
out by trsinloads, and the pickers are
at work by the thousands. The crop
Is not easy to estimate, but 1t will be
somewhere between 900 and 500 car.
loads. All of this goes to the United
States, the cites of Denver, St. Louis
The Sonora orange bears heavily. the
fruit Is small, very early, the skin thin
and the flavor exceptionally fine. 1t
will take q good deal OF duties on the
part of the United States to keep out
the Sonora orange. It gets into the
markets early enough to secure fancy
price-in fact, SO early as to be practi-
eally out of the market before the Cal
ifornia product is reedy.
One hundred tons Of machinery for
the Mexican Clay Manufacturing COM
pany arrived in Mexico last month
from the American Clay Working
Machinery company, of Bucyrus, Ohio.
A large brewery 10 to be opened
at Cuernavaca. Frederick Vo9el has
been there two or three times looking
into the possibilities of the business.
Something like three years aud a half
ago he started tfe stMontezuma"
brewery at Orlzaba with $50 600, o pls Mt
managed by company. A year later
h. started the sc rmania" brewery at
Puebla, with 10000, plant he now
values at 5000, 900. Now Mr.. Voeel pro-
poses to surpsss, in Cuernavaca, all his
previous afforts. He is locking for q
site and proposes to put up building
two stories in the main and five stories
in the central part with tower, et".
He will expeud S75 600, nearly as much
as in Puebla d Orizaba comb ined.
The brewery is to be a forty-barrel
plant, though twenty barrels per day
is to be the output at first. >.
Saltillo, the capital of the State of
Coahuila, Is coming to the front At
lat. THE town has been at q great
dis advantage for lack of sufficient rail-
road facilities. The business and trade
of the state. which formerly cehtered
at the capital, have gradually been
absorbed by the neighb0riug town OF
Monterey, capital of:the State OF Nuevo
Leon, because Monterey has ieasier
railroad communication with the whols
State of Coshuila The construction
OF the Coahuila and zacstecas railroad,