El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-14

| DR.. r. G.. Flower of New York. the
mining man about whom the press has
had so much to say of late, came in last
night and is stopping at the Sheldon.
| A Herald reporter met the doctor
this morning and heard from him
some of the particulars of the condition
of the Arizona Eastern company, which
has excited New York investors a great
| deal of late.
| 1.-The company will soon be reorga-
nized.' said the doctor. and the mines
4 will be worked again. I think the
company's property at Lone Pine. Ari-
IONA. is almost as good property as
Cralk's United Verde and will pay as
great dividends. The trouble in the
New York END of the company was
mischief on the part of certain people
who had little interest in the company.
| They threw most of the blame on me
when 1 had nothing whatever to do
with it except to sell the stocks as
agent at prices fixed by the company.
My dealings were entirely satisfactory
with the directors and | am going
back to help them out of their trouble.
| do not know where Ashton is and
have no business connections whatever
| with him.
Il think it was mean in the papers
to air the matter in the tone they did"
continued the doctor but I have been
| have done the same thing. l have
no complaint to make of the papers for
my relations with the people with
whom l am dealing have not changed
| in the least. 1 have some large invest
mentS in the southwest which may in
terest FL Paso and / am going to put
| them through if l can. I look upon
Mexico as a coming mining country
and as it develops Ell Paso will profit.
l have several properties in Sonora
which give every promise of being
| rich. They are not yet developed eX-
| tensively but the work is going on and
| 1 hope in the near future to announce
| that they are valuable properties. Ell
Paso has been my favorite stopping
place since I began operating in this
/ section and l think his city will be a
very important one within a few
years.
Thos. Martin and c. w. Compton o.
st. Louis. and w. T. Lualam. of Cape
May. discharged soldiers from the sd
infantry in the Philippines. are in the
city. Mr.. Martin says that the war
is by no means over in the Philippines
but there is no more line of battle. 1T
is all guerrilla warfare now" he said
but is somewhat interesting. The pri-
vate soldiers think that American SOL
diers are getting the worst of it in the
results in the philippines. They are
being held back and are not allowed to
fight only when attacked by the enemy.
They all think that if they were allow
ed to push forward they could clean
out the Filipinos in a few months.
THE country is very rough and it
is almost impossible to cross in many
places but an American can go any
where a native can if he is only given
hn nrda fn hnr 10
officers do not want the war to end.
They are making no effort to capture
or kill the enemy which could be easily
done if they would only try it. My
regiment remained in one camp for
nine months and never fired a gun only
when molested by the natives. We
could have cleaned out that entire sec
ton and would have been glad to do
it if we had only been permitted.
Il am not prepared to say why it is
but it looks very much like the Off
GERS want the war protracted so their
positions will last. There are enough
soldiers in the Philippines to kill every
man on the islands within six months
and they are willing to do it. The
country is not developing much on ac-
count of the unsettled state of affairs
and they will remain unsettled as long
as the present policy of staying in one
place holds out
''It is surprising how the Mexican
people are being educated to read news
papers and study English" said w. w.
Rasor of Dallas at the Sheldon. Mr..
Rasor is the Mexican editor of the In
dustrial World, published at Dallas.
Nearly every town of any Importance
now has newspapers" continued Mr..
Rasor, land the people are beginning
to read more and more every year. 1t
is all a mistake about the Mexican peo-
pie not wanting to enlighten them
selves and the way they are taking to
new inventions. new industries. and
manufacturing proves all l say. l
have been travelling in Mexico for sew
erai months and it appears to me that
the MeXicans rather approve of Amer
leans and American capital coming to
that country. That means education
and the people welcome the change.
True many of them are not ambitious
but it is because of their former con-
dition and the once utter hopelessness
or ever rising to a respectable position.
1t will be many years yet before Mex
leo can be called an enlightened coun-
try in the full meaning of the term
but the time is surely coming when a
common school education will be in
the reach and accepted by every one.
as much so as in this country at least
The California press eXCursioniSts
were delighted last night with the mu-
the fine metropolitan orchestra at their
disposal. and in conversation, narrat-
ing incidents in country newspaper
life and listening to the music, the
crowd spent the early evening very
pleasantly. They all went away full