Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-01

times with us rebound to its advant- age, putting wheat as we'll as tortilIas into the mouth of the peon On the ether hand its nrnsDerity is in a de- gree, our own This indicates a real bond of kinship between sister repub- lies. There is no question of the boom having broken out all over Mex ico. from the tawny northern deserts to the black green jungles of the hot country. Like a rash at red heat ir has swept across the chaparral and up the Sierras and down into the earth where the old Spaniards dug as far as they could.
 Four years ago the words swift en. chantment'' were used to suggest the tremendous changes then going on in Mexico. But that was only the leap ing forth of the magic wand that one saw. Now you can see the real en- chantment. for progress is advancing with the rapidity of the growth of a tropical weed. The Mexican govern ment has attracted capital to it's vast natural resources to degree that means development. This it has achieved more especially of late by two or three brilliant strokes of his. tory-makipg. The former article CSep- tember 1903) bemoaned the cratic silver standard as drag on industrial development There were, indeed, half a billion American dollars then invested in Mexico, but millions and millions more were piled up and ready to flood over the valleys and mount aims so soon as Mexico itself opened the sluices by the lever of a stable currency. "If Diaz gives his country sound money" it was then predicted the service will rank with that of giving it tranquility" It was a safe prediction. Since May, 1905, when Mexico made it's pesos worth fifty cents in gold, fully another half bill lion of American dollars have poured across the Rio Grande Authorities like Dun's place the total foreign in- vestments In Mexico at one and one half billion dollars, of which one bill lion is American. But many items not on record should be included. Small and widely scattered invest ments are constantly going into foun- dries. factories. farms, real estate and mines. Americans are beginning to manufacture in the country itself. so that more and more they are selling to the astOunded Mexican below the price of the imported article They are putting out American-Mexica made crackers, candles, soap. under wear. stockings, shoes, bedsteads, powder, dynamite and structural steel, and they have packing houses. tan neries. canneries, and distilleries. The money for these industries is coming in at the rate of s20O, 900 900 a year.
 The traveller may think all this no more than the boom in our own coun~ try spilling over the border. Yet by the last analysis, it is found to be due to Mexico itself, above all to it's statesmanship. There Tages for in stance, no boom in Venezuela. But in Mexico there has never been so much development work as now. It swells imposingly along every line, dwarflng the red-blanketed Indito huddled in stolid awe. There are the great irrigation dams, the sea wells. the wheels turned by water a hun dred miles distant Thefe is of course, a crest to the wave and bad times will whip off the foam, but the volume Of the wave will keep on Sl U" AAAE- aS EDlllt Oltt dlJLlE puts II, Mexico has just begun 10 scratch around the margin of it's opportuni- ties-- Yet -it makes good its title to premier rank in Latin-America. Not fifty years ago, European troops land ed to collect debts. Today Mexico is blessed with fiscal independence Last year it came out S10,OOO. 900 ahead and there was a reserve of S36, 100000 more in the treasury, but it is reducing taxes. paying higher salaries. and spending millions on public works. Thus a wise exploit ation of resources has produced taxa ble property During six months, more than 100000 acres of govern ment lands were transferred to- pril vate ownership.
 Another sign of enduring prosperity is the building of public works. There is the new federal postoffice at the capital, the first completed of a su- perb group of government buildings, as well as the first modern one Here the American postal system is being inaugurated-an official recognition of the invasion of the American meth ods. Even the special furniture comes from the United States. But the building itself has all the charm of tradition. As befits people whose mother country is Spain. the archi- lecture is Arabic Gothic and an es- pecially pure and graceful example. A year ago the pioneer skyscrsper and only modern office building was erected in the capital It towers with stately effect in the group plan. The National theater. at present a skele- ton chaos Of steel will be another; and then there will be the Pantheon for the repose of the illustrions dead, besides ten or twelve more buildings of which the legislative palace. sur passing anything Of the kind in the south, will form the center. Even each suburb is to have it's own share in this beautifying scheme. An astro- nomical observatory already rises among the gardens of Tacubaoa. San ia Maria has a geological institute. and Papatla will soon be the location of a meteorological observatory.
 Attractive homes, however, guaran- tee a city's beauty more than public buildings. The broad avenues of Mex ico City are lined with them now. The American appeared here with his pet institution, the real estate boom. He has plotted out swampy wastes into colonies. paved the streets with as- phalt. and planted trees. You turn . corner. and you leave guady, stucco fronts and barred windows behind and are aI once in wealthy neighborhood of modern American residences. Only the peaked sombreros dodging luxur-