El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-11
Neighbour
hood Notes.
Writ te q Esp. cialIy for TEE b ERAID.
MEXICO.
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MEXICO.
Fetes In Honor of Dlaz' Election.
A sham battle was fought in the City
OF Me xico in honor of the presidents
reelection.
Cinnamon Pouring Int Mexico.
One hundred and fifty Cinnamon
have been recently landed at the port
OF Guaymas. 1t is expected that they
will be set to work in the mines OF
Sonora. It is estimated that before
the end of July three hundred and fifty
more will be landed at Guaymas and
Mazatlan and that there Is q rumor OF
big colonization scheme to import
Chinese and Japanese to work in the
isthmus.
What Mexico Buys OF Us.
A recent report of the bureau of
American republics at Washington,
embodying letters from Mexico, says of
American sellers snd Mexican buyers:
The United States sends linen goods,
raw cotton, thread, UNI brellas, curtains
and fur niture coverings. Articles from
the United States are, perhaps, better
known in this marke than thos e OF any
other country. This Is due to the fact
that the Am ericans have devoted them
selves to an intelligent, study Of the Mex
lean dems nds One of the most character
istic signs is the manner in which they
advertise. The United States manufac-
turers have recognized for long time
that 1t was useless to try to sell their
goods either thI Ough the Intermediary
of agents or by ad vertising in the trade
journals alone. But they have under
stood and obtained . good result
through advertisements reaching not
the merchant only, but the consumer,
directly.
1.-THE sale of an article would be limit
ed if this article were only known 10
merchants, who are not in q position to
make ~ known to many people, as
their field of action lie limited. 1t must
not be forgotten that the Latin race fs
essentially conservative, and tie Mex
leans are not much given to expert
ments."
An American Business Man Talks
of Mexico.
Charles knight, of Patterson, Idaho,
the president of the company owning
the lima mines, has just been in Mex
leo, where he has been exporting the
San Pedro niue, which is probably
the oldest mine in Mexico, having been
worked for about 300 years. he says
of the country:
behind civilization. In that ortion of
the country where 1 was they do not
live in houses built of anything sub
stsntisl, but dry the leaves of the cac
tus and form a she'll, and 1t is surpris-
ing how many Individuals will
manage to exist in such frafl
dwelling. They are like the Chinese
in their manner of crowding a large
number of persons into small
space.
1T is quite edifying to note how
strictly they observe the scriptural
Injunction TO take no heed for the
morrow. They live from hand to
mouth, largely because OF their lack
Of energy to create better conditions
stance, that for 300 years has been
in use. 1t ia miserable road. 1t should
be discarded and another broken near
it. but so happy-go lucky, SO indolent
and so contented are these people that
they prefer Inconvenience to any exer-
tion. There lie water famine in
Mexico at present, and, of course, the
poor people suffer in sequence, al
though for drinking purposes beer aud
loo is sold at so much gallon.
"The moss amusing thing in the
liquid line, however. is the walking
saloons. Men paddle bser and ins.eai
of two natives stepping into a saloon
to get q drink q peddler is stopped
while the two friends quench their
thirst.
SIN their mining operations there
are no mules nor electricity nor cars
used. The poems carry the ore on
their shoulders and it is simply mar
velous the work they accomplish. We
weighed q little fellow and his load
one time and the boy WAS eight pounds
lighter than what he was carrying.
"When we went up to the mine the
the first day we threw coppers to the
little fellows carrying ore, and in
every case down would 60 the load
while the boy ran gleefully off to join
group who we're playing the gambl-
ing game which men, women and
children indulge in Such is the de-
pendence to be placed In the light
hearted Mexicans. "-Denver Times.