Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-24
s, P, in Mexico to Develop the Mineral. Agricultural and Horticultural Resources of That Country, .a~
What the Great Railroad Build CTS Are Doing in the Repub- lie to the South in the Way of improvements.
corresnondent writing fror-

A correspondent writing frOr~ -. York sends the following . Ne" cinnati Enquirer: 70 'ne 1i">
 Very few OF our cit,zeps are aware of the vast importaJIce to the com- merce of the world of Mr, Harriman's 9eVeiopment Of tf c states of Sonora. SlnaIoa and lahF GO, and the territory 1 0I Leplc Ill tp e Republic Of Mexico, i haliWaE men in active work seldom | consider the- details of fine plans of otherS ano- even those known as the Snre"GeS t and brightest of them have gwen title thought of MT. Harrsman's south ern extension of the Southern Pa cllFS, The writer has never met MT. Arrim an personally. He has no fi-
 Aancis interest in his railway pro- 5ects, but he does know the immense { resources of the territory through
 whi ch Mir, Hartman is now building 1 in Mexico.
 "PennSylyania is recognized as one l of the most profitable states of the 2 Union for the railways within it's bor- ders. u is rich in iron, in coal and
 other minerals, and is possessed of
 fertile valleys capable of producing the grains and fruits of the temperate
 zoue. Pennsylvania has an area of
 nearly 43,000 square miles, and the
 Pennsylvania railroad, the model of
 modern systems, has grown opulent
 upon the resources of the state, al
 though the business of the state has
 not all been at the command of that great railway.
 Other roads have shared the traffic to some extent while it is true the , Pennsylvania secured the lions share. MT Hartman. through his Mexican concession obtains absolute and sole
 control of transportation in a terri ] tory twice the area of the state of Pennsylvania, and with greater veins of gold, silver, lead. copper and other Her Share of the Coast.
 minerals than the state of Pennsylya- mia has of coal and iron
 ..Mr. Hartman will draw to his rail way line all the productions of the , tropical lands on the coast, and from the slopes and crests of the Sierra s s Madres he will carry the grains, fruits # and other products. of the sersi-tssnisal Il and temperate zones. The lands are
 far richer than the best acres of Penn e sylvania, the minerals of a far more T. valuable class and far greater in ex- e tent and tonnage. This may seem
  !. the wealth of Pennsylvania, but is only strange to those who do not req. Il lize the wealth of western Mexico. !. T "Pennsylvania has her ocean port at Philadelphia nearly 100 miles from the dd d open sea, her only port it may be said u MT. Hartman in his great domain has !. Guaymas, MaZatlan and San Bias, be u sides a dozen smaller and less commo I, dious bays and roadsteads giving him II angle and admirably located ports oi q entry and of export. I only cite ana = compare with Pennsylvania in order ,o to show clearly the inestimable value " to the world at large of this treasure Id house of mineral and agriculture 10 wealth which is now opening to tht t business men of all countries, but SC ,o accessible and of such transcenden ,S importance to all the business inter ar ests of the United States. In the low ', lands along the tidewater are raiset n the finest crops of sugar cane, of pine in apples, bananas and of every specie n- of tropical productions.
 ,d '.In the mountain valleys, half wa, so up the ridges, excellent cotton, ol .o- anges, lines and every production o al the semi-tropical regions. Still higf qe CT up can be found corn that rivals i 9s- size. quality and amount of bushel ce to the acre the best that the Milan ha valley or the Wabash bottoms can prt i'll duce. The western slopes of the moui or tains in Sinaloa, Ialisco, Topic an he Durango are covered with fine tin mi Der. while from attitudes rangin ,n- from 5000 to 5000 feet rivers com
 tumbling down to the Pacific oceal ,ry furnishing hundreds of thousands ( ras horse power available for mankind try thousand different forms through u eff medium of electricity.
 er- Mir. Harriman's line runs throue ing no desert plains or treeless solitude ,ad Here is the county of wood and "
 of ter, of fruit and of grain which II in AZtecs travelled for years to gai inc while they left to the nomands u yer barren country to the north. It is l yell unlnhabited region through which ,at- is pushing his lines but he touch -ty- cities, towns and villages every fe his miles and there is today fully one al ael- a half millions of people who a DDS. awaiting eagerly the coming of |
 at iron horse. The resources of the ere states have remained only partial ere developed, owing to the lack Of trai ith- portation. The mines, the haciend; ,wn the smaller farms all need machine ion and implements which have now to cry brought at great expense from [ ced ports by mule trains and their prod' nis- tions have to go forth under the sar
 high costs and great difficulties. cen Railways Change 1t.
 ast- "The railway changes all this. T ,ing working mines will increase their D .ing duction ten fold. Thousands of m ave CTS from other countries will flock and to open up the veins and lodes of go ling silver, copper, lead, tin, antimo
 nickel, iron and all the other met
 nature assemblies in her laborato
 go- They are all here in unexampled talk fusion. and neither snow nor ice