The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-11-15
DON TERRAZAS
OF A.
INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT ONE OF MEXI-
cos TWO GREAT MILLIONAIRES-
ESTATE WORTH SlOO,0OO,OO0
LARGEST INDIVIDUAL
CATTLE OWNER IN
THE WORLD.

CATTLE OWNER IN
THE WORLD.
When the estate of an American
capitalist reaches S50.O0O,OOO every.
body in the United States knows who
he is, and his name is familiar where yer
newspapers are printed and read. In
Mexico, however, it is different. There
are men in Mexico whose fortunes run
around the $50,O00,OO0 mark, and are
hardly known out Of their own States.
One of these is Don Luis Terrazas, OF
chihuahua, formerly Governor of that
State. He is the largest individual
land and cattle owner in the world.
1t would surprise the people of Mass a.
chusetts to know that one man in the
southern republic was the sole owner
of more land than is in that Common
wealth. They would hardly believe
that one man in VI, x;co could supply
the whole City Of Boston with beef
from his own ranch and never exhaust
his herd.
Don Luis TerraZas is sole owner of
one ranch in the State of chihuahua
that comprises 100000 acres of land,
and has 10000, 900 acres in other parts
Of the Republic. On these ranches an
average of $50 900 head of cattle, 20O,.
600 sheep and 1000 horses Craze the
year around. He markets over Is 900
head of cattle every year and a third
as many sheep. This great ranch be-
gins at the city limits Of chihuahua
and extends ITO miles north toward Ell
Paso. 1t is over 100 miles wide and
extends into the richest part of the
Sierra Madre Mountains. Over 1O0,-
900 acres Of his estate are in good state
of cultivation and are we'll improved.
The Terrazas estate is estimated at
SlO0,000,0O0, Mexican money. Be-
sides his ranch interests he is the
heaviest stockholder in the Banco
Minero, chihuahua; Agricultural and
Mortgage Bank City of Mexico; Banco
Central Mexicano, City of Mexico;
Anglo Mexican Banking Company,
City of Mexico, and Mercantile Bank
of Monterey, and controls the Chihua-
hua woolen mills, flour factory, packing
company, clothing factory, brewery
and street car system, besides being
one of the heavy owners ofthc Chihua-
hua and Pacific Railroad.
With all this colossal fortune, Gen
clal TerraZls lives modest life. He
has an office and private bank in bis
palatial residence in chihuahua, where
twenty clerks are employed to attend
to his affairs. He seldom travels, pre-
ferring to take a trip to his ranch to
touring the country, and has visited
the United States but twice in his life.
General Terrazas has led an active
life in the affairs of Mexico, bat paid
little attention to the rest of the world
He was modest merchant in Chiln,-
hua when the war broke out against
the French in the sixties, and he ten
dered his services to the Mexican Gov
ernment as common soldier. In this
war he distinguished himself and rose
to the rank of colonel. After the war
he retired TO private life, but about ten
years afterward, when the church party
arose in rebellion, he was again called
into service. Raising an army of vol
unteers in the mountains, he attacked
chihuahua, then the stronghold of the
church party, and after three days
seige captured the city and ended the
war. After this feat General Terrazas
was made hrigatlier-general and placed
in command OF the State of chihuahua.
Soon afierward he was elected Cover
nor OF the State, to which position he
was reelected succ ssively for twenty
years. During his term as Governor
of the State General Terrazas made an
immense fortune. Retiring in 1890,
he opened a bank and began the era of
development that has made chihuahua
one of the leading manufacturing cities
of the republic.
Courteous, obliging and unassuming,
tie multimillionaire has made himself
one of the most popular men in Mexico.
He gives away thousands of dollars to
the poor every year, and is now sup
porting several churches and schools.
He is a believer in education, and all
of his five children have been educated
in the United States. He has done
more to bring American capital into
Mexico than any other one man, and
the development of the mining re-
sources of Northern Mexico are largely
due to his efforts He is now nearly
70 years old, and gives little OF his
time to his business, leaving everything
in the hands of his three sOns.-Detroit
Neus- Tribune.
"Well, what do you think of it?'
inquired the would be author as the
editor laid down the manuscript; "you
must admit there are some good points
in it, eL?" "Well, yes replied the
editor, "there is some slight attempt
at punctuation"