Arizona republican., 1907-11-12
THt CHARACTERIZATION
 OF MEXICAN REPUBLIC
Especially That Part of It in the
 Neishborhood of Tampieo.

Tampico, Mex. Nov. 6.-(Special Press Correspondence to the Republi- can. )-Your correspondent is on the inside track regarding some leading events here, not Vet made public. The | Mexican Central Railroad company are | laying off d suburban town some three miles out of the city by way of the highland ridge and Dona Cecilia | to the beach.
 The company has its shops at the latter place. and at Arbol Granda. ad- | joining town. the Waters-Pierc oil company has a large refinery. On the ridge three miles northeast of the city | the railroad company has a large res ervoir as storage to supplement the pipe line from across over on the Tam esi river where they have a pumping | plant and force water over to Dona Cecilia for use of its many hundreds of employees and railroad shops and works
 This new plating of suburb is out n mile or two from the old town and eX- tends near to their big cemented stor- age tank. This will make more valu- able the subdivision tracts northeass of tho city and extending to this new townsite. An electric line this way over the Highlands to the beach was talked of for a year. Now it may be the Central will put in belt line this | way and relieve the pressure of two hour passenger trains from the city to the beach. which so much interferred | with the immense amount of freight to handle all along the harbor clear to La Barra nn the beach. Many docks where great steamers unload coke and coal by the acre and tons of ore are loaded.
 The Baptist Home Mission Society l is purchasing a fine corner lot of c. ! B. Myers on Alto MontO street. corner ing the open plaza. and will erect suit able buildings. 1t is expected for both church and English school. The, con- sideration was s6.6O0.
 | Arrangements are made for a big backing house for TampicO. There will be seven large brick buildings 40ox700 feet each, on the river front and railroad.
 The Mcdonald Bros. sold a half in- terest in their grove to St. Paul par ties last May and a new company was formed. capitalized at s50.c00. It is | is said. For weeks they have been shipping the finest of grape fruit (much sweeter than Arizona or California; to the states. That grove is a marvel where four and five year-old trees are twelve to fourteen feet high and broad. IL is wonder to all who visit it. Most of the land for four miles from their groves has doubled in the past year but still selling from s25 to s100 per acre. No irrigation is needed here and land is really worth more than Cali fornia orange land. selling at Sl00 per acre.
 J. II. Spence left on a visit to the City of Mexico and below this week. ' J. A. Wieder has arrived with his family and stock for his 1000 ranch or Atascader, colony near Coco. A new town has been plated fol that tract of the Atascado Land com pany and it is said the land has gone up from 8 to $7.50 per acre. I am looking for land buyers from North Dakota and Phoenix this week | Some are on the way now. A friend of ours. large land dealer or Chicago . who has been doing a large bushes: in Wisconsin, Minnesota, etc, and whC was here last April and we sold hin land in the orange district. will b. here about November 2Oth with s7O,O0 7 in gold to start a land and real estate office in this city. He told me las , spring that he thought Tampico would reach 100000 sn ten years.
 I hear the National Line railroad i! being pushed to Luxpam, 100 mile I down the coast, and undoubtedly vii reach this city later.
 w. H. GREENE.