The log cabin Democrat., 1907-06-13

the little city of Monterey, located in Western Nuevo Leon. This city is growing very rapidly and is fast becoming a manufacturing centre. These manufacturing es- tablishments are largely owned and controlled by United States cap italisst. Office work, such as book keeping, stenography, etc, IS very scarce, so much so 1t can hardly be had at any price, as the natives are not yet trained to do such work properly, and as most all business is done through the Spanish lan- guage it causes difficulty i'll get ting the help from the United States of America.
 The possibilities of Old Mexico to become a great wide-awake country in the near future seem to be hattering. In government, as we all know, it is federal repub- lie, the official title being the Unit ed States of Mexico. It is not governed so admirably as many other republics, although the inn migrant to Old Mexico is today much safer in life, property and justice than he would have been twenty years ago or even ten years back, and one now has just cause to predict that the time is not far off when even the moral restric tions in these republics will be re- garded and respected much higher than they are at present. Mexico, of course, has its wild lands and many undesirable places which are lawless, but most all countries have had during their different stages of development more or less of this. But we ought not conclude by this that Mexico is a place entirely without restrictions, for in differ ent places it has good laws and are very rigidly enforced.
 Geographically Mexico is most favorably situated, bordered as it is by the gulf on the east, with the leading ports of Matamoras, Tam pico, Veracruz and Progresso re- spectively, the three former being we'll provided with inland trans portation and the latter also is soon to have the same advantage. On the west lies the Pacific, with four leading ports, but not yet having inland transportation facilities as the eastern borders; and on the north and east the United States. Thus each of the four borders is true advantage. The internation- al railroads which are bringing the two republics into close relation ship is another work of the United States capitalists.
 It is known fact that the differ ence in altitude and latitude gives Mexico a range of climate as great as that of our United States, thus giving great variety of vegetation, the seasons being two-wet and dry. The soil in general is fertile, but exceptions in ports.
 Gold and silver, the chief miner al productions, are being mined ex- tensively. I was informed that cattle are now being grown on more than twenty thousand ranch es. A noticeable feature is that the native long-horned stock is being replaced by the short-horned.
 Without going into special de- tail on any one point I would have these few lines received as gener- al description of part of Old Mex ;co, as space will not permit of a more minutely description. But the point I would especially em- phasize is a consideration of the great amount of capital now being invested in old Mexico by United States capitalists i'll the various in- dustries, trades and professions, viz:-cattle and sheep raising, fruit and grain growing, lumber ing, transportation, real estate, manufacturing, etc.
 c. O. DALTON.
 Enola, Ark, June 10.
 A POOR JUMPER.