The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-21
IN THE CITY OF MENICO:

IN THE CITY OF MEN1CO:
California fruit sells for so cents a
pound
Strawberries are sold every day in the
year.
Hotels rarely maintain their own res
taurants.
The summer climate Is the finest of
all the year.
The demand for big. modern hotel Is
still uilsa tisiied.
Blankets are a necessity every night,
summer or winter.
Priests are not allowed upon the streets
in their clerical robes.
a dozen free open-air concerts by mill
tary bands are given every week.
Newsboys are forbidden to cry any
thing but the names of their papers.
Many modern houses. particularly those
built by foreigners, are being provided
with fircpaces.
The copper output in Mexico is increas-
ing very rapidly. as shown by the eX-
norts of the first ten months of the
fiscal year 190l-1902. which amounted in
money value to sll,23s,Ol2 gold, Il gain of
nearly $2,00O.0OO over the corresponding
ten months of 190O-l90. 1t is predicted
that the production of copper during the
current fiscal year 1gD21?03 will show I
still greater increase. as Il result OF sew
eral new mines of large producing oap-
acity Icing now ready to yield. Prac-
ticallv all the copper produced in Mexico
is exported, Il large part of it as assort
Cd ore. Modern Mexico.
Mexican railways built from 1877 to
1891. EiCmeters. TO- 1Gi equal to 1854
miles. Subsidies paid by the government
CT promised to be paid on stipulated
dates.
In cash Observation-Disclosures $50 Sl1, ,7}S 90
Nr,tN~ rar t..G 4 Al
In railway bonds ........... 5000. 151 %
Total ....... -. -. ...... $l09 80, 223S 81
These subsidies have been liquidated
within the terms stipulated by the gov
ernment when the respective concessions
were granted.
The difference between Mexico and
some other, countries is that this country
has IA continuous government, we'll
thought-outr set of public policies. and
that here experts take the place of pro-
fessional politicians. Wherever the too
talkatiVe purveyor of eloquence is kept
in the background there is real progress,
peace-a bounding, and Il chance for the
money-making private citizen 10 go his
own way unworried. Here, we are all
talking of silver and the gold standard.
but no one doubts that the administra-
tion is doing a deal of hard thinking
about the monetary situation, and that,
in the end it will announce a sensible
decision, and avoid upsettlng the busi-
ness community. Elsewhere there would
be mass meetings much declamatio by
tussy and superficial orators, professions
and brass bands. Mexico settles her
problems differently. Meantime. We are
all industriously pursuing the big silver
peso, knowing we'll its depreciation, but
also knowing that we are not in any
danger of flood of rag money. Mexico,
in any case, is going to have a metallic
currency to back her bank notes and
give stability to her expanding trade, in
ternai and eXternal.-MeXican Herald.
The average annual value of MeXico's
agricultural exports to the United States
for the last five years has been SlJ,50OCO0
gold. American imports of agricultural
products last year reached a value OF
S392, ,O0O, go. Mexico occupies eleventh
place among the countries supplying
these products, furnishing only 3H per
cent. of the total. These figures indi-
cate the great possibilities that exist for
the extension of tropical agriculture in
a company has lust been formed in
Trieste, Austria, under the name of the
company to trade and
trade between Mexico and
Austria. The company also proposes to
Il fast line Of steamers between
Europe and Mexico. Why are we not |
also establishing lines TO foreign ports to |
give us orders Tor our multiplying fac |
tories? The answer is "We are waiting |
Oh congress for 4 ship subsidy BILL !