The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1906-04-27
letter FROM WALLACE
The Courant Receives an Interest,"
ing Letter from L. H. Wallace
who is now Located at Los
= Angeles.

Publishers Courant: When l left
Bottineau I promised large number
of my friends there to write to them
and let them know how I was getting
along in my new business venture in
this country. and particularly to let
them know about our Mexican bus
mess.
Almost Immediately upon my ar
rival here and after we had been
housekeeping only five days, 1 left
for the State of Sinaloa, Republic of
Mexico, to look over our holdings in
that State aud also prospective hold
ings. In order to reach there, I took
the Southern Pacific to Guaymas and
steamboat from Guaymas to Altata,
thence py rail to Culiacan, the Cap
ital Of the State of Sinaloa.
remained in Culiacan about "a
hours, preparatory to an extensive trip
on mule back through the country,
and during the time was there 1
rode mule and horseback for about
1 ZOO miles in the State of Sinaloa
alone. I also went into the states of
Topic and Sonora. then rode through
the little state of Co1ima and into the
state of Jalisco AMI landed at Quad
alajara, the second largest city in
Mexico, returning from there last
Thursday after an absence of nearly
10 weeks.
found the state of Sinaloa to be
considerably different from what I
expected it to be-. It is state about
$50 miles long and not more than 1875
to $50 miles wide, containing in all
about II. 500, 900 acres of land, 5000
600 of which are titled lands, $500, 900
Government lands which have been
previously surveyed, and about 9,OOO,-
600 which our Company is now survey
ing, and has completed the survey of
probably more than half.
/ We have crew Of more than 80 en-
gineers and surveyors now at work
with their separate gangs of men ID
this State, and they hope to practically
complete the survey before the 10Th day
of December. As I told you before
leaving, third Of this goes to the
Sinaloa Land Water Company as their
fee for surveying. This will leave
the Company in the neighborhood of
300, 900, acres of land.
The Company is capitalized at $2.-
500. 900. the stock of which is now dis
posed of with the exception of 1000
shares of Treasury stock which is now
on the market at $125. 90 a share, the
last 1000 shares having been disposed
of at par value $1OO per share. This
stock was selling last November at
$50. 90 share. This shows an enor-
nous increase and is accounted for by
the fact that upon close investigation
we found that we are getting more of
it than we thought we could get.
There is great deal of the land that
we presumed was titled, which is not
titled but still belongs to the Govern
ment.
have had Mexican literature sent
to a number Of my friends in Botti-
neau and elsewhere, and hope that
some of you have read same. If you
have read it you have kept in touch
with the situation in Mexico. If you
have not received this literature,
would be pleased to have you write me
to that effect and I will have some
sent to you from our Office, putting
you on our mailing list.
From my personal observation I
found the state of Sinaloa to have
wonderful prospects for agricultural
purposes. OF course there is great
deal of rough land in this state but
the rough land is all on the eastern
side of the state. This dwindles to
gently rolling foot hill land and to-
ward the coast the land is level, drop
ping about three feet to the mile to-
WARDS Cno coast.
This level land parallels the coast
for the full length Of the state. with
only an occasional hill or small range
Of hille running east and west throuhg
it to the coast. The width of this
level strip in the northern part Of the
state is about 60 miles. This strip
gradually narrows in following the
coast south until the south end of
the state is reached, where the width
is about 20 miles.
Running east and west through this
state are ten rivers, eight Of which
are quite large and three Of which are
very large. In riding over the state
I was able to cross them all but these
three by fording. The three large
rivers are the Fuerte, Sinaloa and
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