Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-01-19

Pullman, who recently went to Aca-
pulco, Mexico, and while not written
for publication, we take the liberty of
printing it that our readers may know
some of his ideas of the southern
country:
Acapulco, Mexico,
Dec 30th, 1906.
We arrived in Acapulco on the
morning of the 18th of December,
after ten days trip on the S. S. Peru.
The trip down was very pleasant and
all enjoyed it very much. We had a
jolly lot of passengers who were going
to almost every part of the world. but
most of them were going either to
Mexican or Central and South Amer
lean ports. | was quite surprised to
see so many people in one party who
were interested in business ventures in
these southern countries, and they are
all well pleased with their new homes
and seem to be very prosperous. There
were number of ladies aboard who
had lived for several years in these
countries and they were so loud in
their praise of their homes that we
were really surprised. but now that we
have been here some time we can un-
derstand that there is good reason for
their being satisfied. We arrived here
with no one to meet us as my tele-
gram had not been forwarded to our
manager, because he was away for a
few days, but we got along all right
after several very amusing incidents.
We went to the American hotel and
found very comfortable quarters and
genial landlady. We Immediately be-
gan looking for a house and the land
lady went with us and soon secured
very nice house in the American quar-
ter where we soon had things ready to
move in and on the fourth day after
tied in our new home. We have nine
large rooms and a large patio, with
lots of flowers and fruits. Three fine
lime trees and very large mango and
two papava trees and two guavas, all
of them in full bearing and furnishing
enough fruit for three families. 1t
seems nice to step out and pick the
fruit any time we wish. We get this
large house for $50 Mexican per month
and our three servants we pay S29
Mexican per month and they are
splendid. We find living here very
cheap and very good. We can get
anything we wish here excepting good
fresh butter. so have to buy canned
butter at 81. 25 per pound. This is a
very fine harbor, in fact the finest on
the continent, and very secure from
storms. The largest ships can come
in without any difficulty.
q believe this will make great
city within a few years as it has the
country around it to make it so. !
have never seen a country that offered
so many inducements to capital. The
land is very rich and everything grows
in the greatest abundance and there IS
a good market for all kinds of pro
ducts for shipment to all parts of the
world. Corn, cotton, beans. peas.
rice, tobacco, sesame, sugar cane, and
every kind of tropical fruits grow to
perfection here and there is ample de-
mand for more than will be produced
in many years. There are much larg-
er areas of fine agricultural lands
around here than | thought, and this
will soon be in the hands of Americans
as they are coming in very fast and
will soon have these lands producing
to their fullest capacity. Then Aca-
pulco will be a great city. There are
thousands of cocoanuts being planted
now and within the next five years this
will be one of the greatest cocoanut
markets in the world. The men who
are planting them now will reap a rich
harvest when they commence bearing.
This is a great country for the
poultryman, turkeys and chickens
thriving here better than any place |
ever saw. This is also great game
country; thousands of deer are killed
around here every month and short
distance back there are thousands of
tigers and leopards. Quail and wild
pigeon are everywhere and wild chick
ems are quite numerous. The hard
woods of this country are very fine for
furniture and there are. many kinds.
| have just purchased building site
which think is the finest in the city.
1t overlooks the entire harbor and from
my upper story | can have fine view
of the ocean. have a tract 220 feet
front by $50 feet deep and on the side
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