The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1906-03-15
Letter from Mexico.
San Pablo, Mexico,
Feb. 21, 1906

y. Il. MOTIFS, 4 lyllOulll, lHu.,
Dear Father
Well we arrived here O. K after q
trip lasting almost a month and we
saw some sights l shall always re-
member We had quite a bit of ex-
perierce coming from Laguire here
so are pretty we'll broken in to Mex
lean people and their ways. Every
body takes their time to everything
A oay or a week makes no difference
to them. We have been a week get
ting done what could be done up
there in two days.
We have the mill ready 10 start up
in the morning and are hoping that
it will rum We have no practical en-
gineer SO are little afraid of that
part. He don't know as much as
do about it SO he don't know much.
rugged the boiler and engine up the
best | could and fixed the other part
except lining up the carriage track.
and | will have to saw some lumber
to fix it with before | can change
that They have the track now SO
tie carriage blocks don't come within
two inches of the saw. The whole
outfit is Sinker Davis and almost new
but has been badly abused. The car
riage is about forty feet long and has
three SO blocks with spring receder,
and is in pretty good shape as is also
the saw plane and feed.
We have gang of Jamaica niggers
and have to drive all but one or two.
One nigger is a good one, as good a
hand as ever worked.
We have mule and cart to go
back and forth to the mill with, and
the nigger makes it sail too. Some
times the car Jumps the track and on
again without stopping and then
again the mule takes notion to start
across the fields with us.
There is something going on here
all the time SO time passes rapidly.
There is quite crowd here now but
think they will thin out some in a
few days Mr.. Markley and Mr..
Boyd are going to leave in two or
| three days and Mr. and Mrs. East
left yesterday as did also Mr.. CUR
west who went out to camp No. % to
superintend the logging.
The Mexicans are great people,
they all drink auguenta, whiskey
made from corn. They furnish that
to them twice day and whenever
they do little extra work They all
line up in front of the house here
and pass along and get their drink al
four in the morning and six in the
evening. The women nearly all wear
a kind of blanket around their waist
and the kids don't wear anything as a
rule
| am getting so / can understand
and talk enough Spanish that by us
ing my hands | can get along pretty
we'll
| There are 2ss,o00 acres here SO they
have plenty of room to get around
but greater part of it is forest. They
have lots of wild cattle back on the
ranch eight or ten kilometers and the
tigers have been getting quite gooe
rnanv ~,1vae
l was going down through tils
woods to the creek to take bath las
evening and deer jumped out of the
path not over thirty feet from me
He was gone before / could pull IN,
revolver to shoot. We also saw ;
white faced monkey last Sunday. Th'
parrots do a lot of jabbering in the
evening.
Part of the machinery came III
from Laguna yesterday but only ;
belt sander and an automatic gaug,
handle lathe is all that is up from
lCheukan.
The laborers here get $1.00 per da,
Mexican money or soc American AM
have to pay we'll for all they get t.
eat so they are practically slaves
They pay them in advance SO the.
all owe the company and the law j
such that they can't leave plac
where they are in debt SO they max
them work just like they owned them
/ The last bunch they brought her
lcost them about $4,000 gold Tha
lis they brought their debts and max
|, them work it out.
Feb %.
i Well we run the mill today and ha
Ifairly good success. We had to re
pack manhead in the boiler an
had quite bit of trouble with tn
E injector The niggers were prett
] awkward but will work into it a
: fright think All the niggers on tn
ranch are after me to let them wor
S for me at the saw mill. They ca
e me chief Well | will close for thi
: time | think horseman will tax
e the mail to Champotaw tomorrow
Court d. Morris