Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-18
THE JALISCO LOTTERY
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The tropics are there, the dry swell
tering hot plains beside the sea, but
no railroad center There are no
railroads centering there. The Pan
American goes thru the place, but so
undesirable is it that even the shops
of the road and offices are to be re-
moved. The railroad people gave out
that they would stay there and help
build up the place. But the machine
shops and roundhouse are to be taken
to point below Tonala, and the gen.
eral offices of the employees to San Ge-
ronimo A place that is Stunned even
by the railroad that is supposed to
build it up is certainly not desirable
place for Americans to settle In. In
fact, I was told that whatever the
place ever amounted to would have to
be because of the people settling there.
At least the railroad people might have
waited there until the day of the open
ing and not get out so hastily.
The literature of the company
states that there is an abundance of
shade trees; that the place is decidedly
cool and that the river can ever fur
nish water power. There is not an
abundance of shade, but an abund-
ance of heat and discomfort; the
climate is decidedly enervating and the
river is a small affair, probably hum
dred and fifty feet wide at the highest
level during the rainy season. The
map Of the company says that at ia
lisco 1t is never above 80 degrees nor
helow-6O degrees. / do not know
what the temperature Is in winter, but
while was there, 1t ran up to lo2 de-
grees in the shade. That. was In the
sprangtime, in March, so there is no
telling what it would attain before
the rainy season commenced.
Hand Book is Misleading.
".The hand book of the Pan-Ameri-
can Land and Colonization Company
has a most misleading statement on It's
first page. It says that most OF the
pretty illustrations in the BOOK are
scenes from the state of Chiapas, the
greater part being taken at or near
Jalisco, all the photographs reproduced
therein, being taken by the treasurer OF
the company, Mr.. Bedwell, while there
in person. AS matter Of fact of the
twenty-five pictures, ten or twelve are
scenes in the state Chiapas and only
three or four being taken at Jalisco,
these being the shop and roundhouse
and the house Of the master mechanic.
AS stale, Chiapas. from all learn.
is fertile, but the section around Jal1s-
co is dry, and unproductive, the soil
sun baked clay, the river a small in
stream, shallow and only
river like during the height of the
rainy season The tropical vegetation
is decided wanting, except in the
glowing prospectus Of the company.
".The November report of the COM
pany led us to believe that in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the toWnsite of Ja-
lisco there We're forests of precious
woods and dye-woods, groves Of or
anges and bananas and flpcks of we'll
fed cattle. Cattle we did find, and they
looked we'll. But there were no apples,
no vanilla, no castor beans, no cacao,
no chocolate. There We're few. scat
tering wild oranges and bananas, but
We did not find at Jalisco or in the
vicinity, any coffee or rub
Der. There was no rice, as promised
in the prospectus, as the country is
too dry for rice. There were no Irish
potatoes, only a few camotes or sweet
potatoes. There was no wheat at all
in sight, and but little corn. We did
not see any of the alfalfa they said
grew so abundantly there. AS to prec-
ious woods, there may have been some
in the interior of the state but not
around Jalisco, nor in the hills mile
away. On the other side Of the hills
further inland. there was wood, we
were told. The so-called timber at Ja-
lisco was scraggling and scattering.
much of it on the scrub order, which
in the rainy season, made showing
Of green was told"
Excursion Tickets to May Music Fes-
tivaI, Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
Via the Northwestern line, will be
sold at reduced rates May II to 20,
inclusive, limited to return until May
90, inclusive. Apply to agents Chi
cago & Northwestern railway.