Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-31
{. R. South Amazed at What He
Has Seen of This
Country.
NEEDS MORE AMERICANS.
Labor Is Cheap and With Enterprise
Any Wide~awakc Man Can Make
His Fortune.

come milllonaires' This is L. X.
South's statement. Mr.. South is a well
known resident of Salt Lake and has
Just returned from an extended trip
through Mexico on business "All that
Mexico needs Is American enterprise"
he said today 1T has. now, the re-
sources climate and labor have spent
some time In the territory near the city
OF Tampico and to say was surprised
at the showing made by those districts
is putting II mildly The very finest
kind of fruit farms can be bought for
a song, and labor-well, an American
never needs to work in that country,
and those already there never do. All
n wide awake man from this country
needs do is TO furnish the brains
poems will furnish the labor at so cents
per day. The minute you cross the line
an American dollar becomes two dol
lars, and VIII buy just twice as much as
ii would on the upper side of the line.
Americans already In Mexico have
bought large tracts, planted them In
tropical fruits and vegetables, and are
now making fortunes rapidly. The larg-
or farms have their own supply stores.
You can hire poems for a half dollar per
day and they will purchase all their
clothing and edibles from the farms
store, so In reality peon labor costs
but 20 cents q day. The poems are ig-
norant but are skilled in fruit farming
and other industries of their land.
AMERICANS ARE KINGS.
The opportunities offered In Mexi-
CO for enterprise and small capital
4. at
time because they are not half known
An acre Of land which costs 500 will
yield crops the first year worth twice
that amount, Americans In Mexico
live like kings, Kind treatment will
make peons--the natives-the best of
willing servants. The Mexicans are
not original or progressive. They
dress in the most primitive fashion
although they have every resource on
all sides. They live in rude huts and
cook with the most crude implements
and utensils. Stones piled up serve
as a stove, while such things as wood
en- rolling pins or ovens are un-
known. The Mexicans' favorite dish
--tartillo---is made of corn first sep
arated from chaff by a solution of
lime and water and then mashed on
stone by means of a rude rolling
stone. The women grind the corn UNI
til the finer meal drops over the sides
of the stone. The powder is then
mixed with water, patted into shape
something like our hot-oakes and
then baked over stone stove. This
method of cooking illustrates the
primitive methods employed in do
nestle affairs by the natives. Three
sticks: two coming to a point on the
ground and a third running to the
neck-strap of the oxen constitute
Mexican pillow. The entire weight
at tla.a al. la lA nly
of the oxen and only few of the
more intelligent natives have strap
yokes which rest upon the animals
shoulders. The illustration shows
what can be done by Americans who
will introduce modern methods and
machinery into a country that bios
SONS at the slightest touch. Oranges
are n seasonable fruit but all other
tropical products OF every description
grow the year around
COUNTRY WANTS BRAINS.
Mr. South paid special attention TO a
district some 80 miles from Tampico, on
the line of the Mexican Central and the
Panuco river This particular piece
of country is unusually fertile. The
formation OF the ground Is somewhat
similar 10 that along the banks OF the
Nile. The Panuco has overlooked until
the territory is covered with Is feet of
rich, loan or silt. The Panuco is deep
and navigable for miles. The natives
maintain small banana farms and after
harvesting come to market in small
boats loaded with their wares. few
acres planted in bananas or other fruit
Will keep native all his life. The
lower classes never see newspaper
could not read one II they did and are
content to drag out meager living or
work AT half a dollar--Mexican money
for white man.
TAMPICo BUSY CITY.
"Tampico Is a beautiful city. There
are 1000 Americans there and they have
one OF the wealthiest clubs IN the world
The minute an American reaches
Tamploo he becomes the guest of the
club. Everything Is at his command,
and no one could wlsh for better treat-
ment. A few wealthy mon OF other ma
tions belong. The feeling of brother
hood among Americans outside OF
America, naturally, is strong. and
brothers could not be more loyal than
Americans are among themselves IN
Mexico. Tampico has the finest docks
] have ever seen. They We're built by
the government at cost OF $4,000 900,
Iron pipes. six feet ia diameter, have
been driven 10 depth OF 10 feet IN the
Panuco. which is 50 feet deep at the
wharf and over 100000 tons OF freight
passes over these docks every year
The business handled up and down TIL
Panuco is growing rapidly, duo 10 the
presence Of Americans In territory
pierced by this river. The government
has spent six millions IN building iet-
ties for the protection OF the city from
high tides oh. tell you this land of
tartillo and shiftloss poems offers every