El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-19
THE RICHES
OF MEXICO
A Most Valuable Exhibit
At The Paris
OUR SISTER REPUBLIC
Expects To Rival Many Of
The Greatest Nations
In Her Dis
play

|
ose Bulues, of Tobasco, state of Sar
Juan Baptiste, Mexico, has ar
rived here. Mr.. Bulnes is one
| of the largest m ahogany dealers in the
Aztec land and owns 10000 hectars o
the very best mahogany timber in al
trees off of 80, 900 hectars more which
| belong to the government.
Mr.. Bulnes is accompanied by his
nephew, Senior Pedro Vega, who is EN-
ployed in the Bulnes house at Tobssco.
He talked Interestingly the other d sy
to the States reporter relative to the
great preparations Mexico was making g
for the exposition al Paris. Mr.. Bulne les
said be was quite positive that no cOun-
try would have a more elaborate or
more extensive eXafbit than would
the republic of Mexico, regardless of
how rich or how great any other cOun-
try might be. The two products which
will figure very prominently in the
Mexican exhibit will be mahogany and
brandy. The latter is one of the new
In dustries of Mexico and is being man
ufactured at this time in great abun-
dance from sugar cane. Mr.. BulDes
said that Mexican brady had already
found q most ready and extensive sale
all over Europe and South America,
wherever the liquor was consumed in
great quantities. It was also being
sold very largely in the markets OF the
United States.
One of the largest brandy manufsc
turing establishments OF Mexico is at
Tobasco, the location of Mr.. Bulnes'
| arge mahogany firm. Tobssco is the
capital of the State OF San Juan Blp-
tiste, where lives the governor of the
state, General Abraham Bandala.
Mr.. Bulnes says more progressive
man than Governor Bandala cannot be
found anywhere. He has personally
arranged to have large exhibits at the
Paris fair. Mr.. Bulnes has arranged
to occupy quite large portion of the
5 pace Of the exposition which has been
allotted to the Republic of Mexico. He
will in this show some Of the nam moth
nah ogapy logs to be fonnd in Mexico,
many of which are as much as twenty
fe ct in diameter and several hundred
y ears OF age. Mr.. Bnlnes has visited the
prin cipal mag hogany producing cCun-
tri es Ct the Western continent and is
onviced that nowhere Is there to be
found better mahogany than that which
ne has in his possession and under his
ION troll. He says there Is much vslu-
BILE mahogany timber in Cuba, but |
that the forests of Mexico are much |
pore extensive than those of the island |
dependency of Uncle Sam.
Besides the exhibits of brandy and |
n ahogany, Mexico will display at the |
Par is exposition some OF the most re-
n arkable collection of minerals to be |
ound anywhere in the world. Mr.. |
3ulnes explained that there was scarce |
y any mineral known anywhere in the |
world that could not be found in Mex |
60 in sufficient qnanti,y to make the |
nj ming of il a pa, ing business. There |
opaz, aluminium, emeralds, rubies, |
zinc, lead, and in short, all |
,he various precious minerals ln the |
great undeveloped wilds OF that couu-
Try and along its coasts. Mr.. Bulues
,ays he believes that the Mexicon ex-
aibi Is in Paris in the mineral line
alone will insure the concentration of
Millions of dollars Of capital in that
country almost as soon as the exposi-
ion has opened and the exhibits have
3een examined.
Another great feature of the Mexi
can exhibit, explained Mr.. Bulnes,
will be the manufacturers display.
There will be all sorts of man nufactured |
cotton and silk goods. Then there will |
De tobacco and coffee displays, which |
will shed a new light on the import |
ance of Mexico as the producer of two |
If the most widely sold articles of m 3D. !
ern commerce. Recently some OF the |
inest tobacco and coffee connoissures