Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-02-27
LARGEST RANCH IN WORLD.
One May ~ravel for Ten Hours by
Rail Within Its Boundaries.

One May ~ravel for Ten Hours by
Rail Within Its Boundaries.
Take a Mexican Central train at Eel
Paso.. Tex, travel south into the land
of manyana for ten hours. and If
your engineer Is following schedule
time you will be travelling for the
entire period through the ranch of
one man. This king among ranch.
owners is General Luis Terrazas, for.
mer governor of the state of Chihua.
hua. and estimated to be the veal
thiest citizen of the southern republic.
Putting his ranch holdings Mt very
low estimate and reckoning his cattle
ana marketable property ut average
rate. his wealth totals more than
$20O'O00,OOO. For all that anyone
knows, 1t may be actually double that
figure.
The astutc old general who has
proved himself one of the shrewdest
businessmen of Mexico. never talks
of his riches and processes even to
DC unable to state what he is worth
Mexicans who are competent to
state say that not even Pedro Alva-
RADIO, who offers to pay off the Next
can national debt with precious metal
from his famous mines. is as wealthy
as the former governor of the larg.
est state of the republic.
How large the Terrazas ranch ac.
tually is it is impossible to say. Rid
ing steadily on horseback from north
to south, hardened vaqueros require
three days to make the trip from one
boundary line to the other. East and
west the width varies considerably,
running as, high as 800 miles and
at others narrowing down to little
more than 100. The line of the Mex
lean Central runs through it for 27O
miles, or in the metric nomenclature
OF Mexico, for 440 kilometers. Vast
expanses of grazing land, pieces of
desert. fruitful valleys. little towns,
villages and good sized cities are all
embraced in its confines.
General Terrazas is Just past his
18th birthday, an event which was
celebrated with great pompt and shcw
throughout the CITY and state Of Chi
huahua. On account OF his advancing
years he has gradually relinqushed
the management of many of his inter
csts to other members of his family.
a few years ago he gave up the Of
flee of governor of Chihauiau. which
he had held for years. and secured the
place for his son-in-law, Enriqucz T..
Creel. man of very much the same
type as the former governor. and nne
who is ready to carry on the same pol.
icies In regard to the family estate
and the political government,
a host of nephews. cousins and 9th.
err relatives. many of them able finan-
ciers and businessmen, are engaged
IN the various departments Of The ri
eantic business. managing banks, dl.
recting the cattle raising caring for
grain interests or controlling the Zig
mining properties.
The city of chihuahua Itself. VIII,
population of $1,000, is within the
ranch proper and practically all it's
business interests are under the dom.
nation of Terrazas. directly ~ indi-
rectly Two large ore smeltcrs an
iron foundry several cottonseed mills.
soap factory. brewery and the
oanking-honscs make mp the principal
Dusmess-houses Of the place. Even
the daily newspaper is edited and
managed by connection of Terrazas.
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The country's Dad.
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