Arizona republican., 1907-10-03
THE INCREASING WEALTH
 OF MEXICAN REPUBLIC
The Financial Showing Made in the Latest Message of President Oiaz.

Tampico. Mex. Sept. (27.-(Special correspondence of The Republican, - The prosperity of the Mexican govern lment as pointed out by President DiaZ in his message of the 18th inst, Is at tracing much attention in financial circles. It shows a surplus of twenty million dollars in the treasury. That the federal governments revenue for the fiscal year Ig06-l9O7 Qast year) lamounted to S1l3.000,0o0 and tbat the receipts from import duties alone the past year was s52.OOO,O0O, being just double what it was five years ago. Any one who stands a few hours on the custom house dock and sees four great ocean liners discharging freight as l see it now, must realize it to be a fact and that this port has increased its imports over 50 per cent last year. | Today I see car loads of Page and | American mesh wire fense, for Guada tlajara, thousands of tons of sugar mill machinery, and stamp and mine ma chinery-thousands upon thousands of spools of barb wire, which sell here at : just half of Phoenix prices. Cords of silver and silver lead in bars. as l have said in former letters. Car load after car load of galvanized sheet iron, used lextensively for roofing. Hundreds of tons of structural and railroad steel; besides dry goods from Europe in i'm imense quantities and wagons. blows. farming implements, great quantities of all kinds of lumber. automobiles, etc. | Hundreds of people are unloading the steamships and others loading cars which have tracks running through the great custom house and over the docks. Hundreds of men opening and inspect ing everything, and mailing up boxes. Besides these great transatlantic steamers, there are steamships every Saturday from New Orleans and every other Saturday from Galveston and I Port Arthur. Freight rates from New lOrleans are only B cents per unit. iThe great distributing houses of American manufacturers are at New Orleans and ship cheaply to MexicOc and Central America.
 No wonder business men predict 2OO,O population for Tampico in 10 years. Land is being cleared from 1 to s miles out of the city. north and south. for orange groves. and tens of thousands of trees are expected to be planted lnlS CoHllHS ldil anu NlhltI Orange lands range from s10 to $50 per acre, better than in California or AriZona-nO irrigation is needed. No insects to iniure the citrus fruit. There | is some slight scale. but there is all
 ways a natural enemy that destroys it. There is no spraying to be done, labor ! is % to 37 12 cents per day, as good as Arizona pays s1.50 per day for. i Why can't cattle ranching and grain and citrus fruit pay here? Life and property are fully as safe as in the United States. It is healthful and comfortable all the year. as to climate. So many write me personal letters and ask about these things, so I repeat them in your columns.
 We are looking for J. A. Wilder and family from Phoenix, now on the road with two cars of stock and household stuff They will settle on our s5 Atascador colony lands. fifty miles west of the city. I ordered a half car load Page fence for him yesterday. to leave New Orleans tomorrow.
 w. K. GREEN.