Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-24

determined the importance OF our
Southern neighbor shall not escape at
tention. the following extracts from the
book will show:
Before Shakespeare was born,
American literature had its beginnings
in a library of volumes printed in
America in a score Of original Ameri-
can languages, besides the mass In
Spanish. "
1.-The first University in America,
founded by the Spanish crown in
l551."
The City OF Mexico contains "the
cradles of printing. education, art, and
organized charity 10 the New World I;
for all these things came century and
a half to two centuries and half ear.
lier in Mexico than in the United
States. Bishop Zumarroga set up here,
in 1886, the first printing press One
did not reach the English colonies till
1858. "
"Ninety three years ago GuRnajuato
waR the second largest city in the New
World-Mexico being fret and Havana
third. "
"In the beginning Of this century
two Guanaiuato mines producing an
nually 4,40o. 600 ounces of silver--one-
seventh or one eighth Of the entire
American output
"Here lin Zacatecas) we're the first
bonanza mines in the New World, and
here sprung up the first American mil
lionaires.
"The streets paved for squares with
silver ingots for the christening process
sion of some purple horn, and twenty.
ton silver ratings for church altar. ="
"At the beginning Of the last century
| the Pabellon de Somhrerete paid its
three owners S20,U00 day for five
| years; and 1t has produced in all two
hundred millions of dollars.
Though it is a conservative esti.
mate that not 10 per cent OF the min
eral wealth of Mexico has been ex-
plotted, mines IRE becoming second
| airy consideration. Not that they are
failing, but that other industries are
| being born.''
Between the extremes of its marvel
Gus climatic range Mexico can produce
every crop known to the civilized
world. Two-thirds of its lands belong
TO the temperate zone and only ono
third to the tropics. Sitting asiride
the longest mountain syBtem ON earth,
its head touches the eternal SHOWS,
while it's feet dabble in seae OF everlast-
ing summer. 1t is competent to sup
portland well--a population OF at least
seventy five millions"
The Hercules cotton mills "a mis-
sionary OF beauty to its employees. ltt
lovely patios Of tropical flowers, it,
fountains, its Sls.000 carrara marble
Hercules at the main mill, and Other
fine statues at the annexeB.
To-day Mexico is the safest country
in America. Life, property, human
rights. are more secure than even with
US. "
| Porfirio Diaz: Probably the great
est iigure--as it is Internationally tn,
most rumantic-in the worlds politici
this hHlf-century.
| This possibility Of Mexican Inter.
Oceanic Canal at Coatzacoalcos, 18th
mus of Tehuantepec, "Where the twt
oceans are not over $50 miles apart. thu
shortest cut there is till you go as ia
south as Nicaragua. AlreRd!
in 1920 Cortez, in his fourth letter t.
tine Emperor, foreshadows the grea
work we have been too dull to do yet
and speaks of the Isthmua of Tehuan
tepec as el sscrete del estrech-th
secret of the strait. And the viceroy
Condo de Revillagigedo (1Ts9) protected
transisthmian canal via the rive
Coatzacoalcos. Balanced as it wer
between the two oceans, compact AM
central with regard to the long com
merce Of the world, il is hard to fore
tell what influence upon trade and poll
tics the new republic might have witt
this canal in her hards.''
Acapulco, the most beautiful Ia
cific port in the Americas, is also tn
second finest harbor 10 the world
Sydney alone outrankipg it,.