The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-10-31
INVESTMENTS IN MEXICO
Thousand Million Dollars of American Money Sent to Neigh
boring Republic

year is steadily increasing While the
winters throughout the greater part of
Mexico are always mild the table lands,
and even those sections along the coast
affected by the trade winds. are much
cooler In summer than the majority OF
the cities and towns In the United States.
At TampiCO, according 20 an official re-
port by Consul p. Merrill Griffith, who Is
stationed at that Placc. one may find the
finest tarpOn fishing in the world. and the
Accommodations at all the leading hotels
are engaged months in advance OF the
opening of the seCson by American and
English lovers of this exciting sport. Be
sides, an abundance of aquatic fowl may
be found alons the coast and plenty OF
wild game throughout the forests
For those who are interested in archae-
ology. Mexico furnishes an excellent op-
portunity for study In the ruins Of Militia
Palenque. and those to be found in the
state OF Yucatan. as well as IN many OF
the crumbliIg. picturesque walls of old
castles and cathedrals located in differ
ent sections OF the republic. and around
which still linser historical and romantic
charms.
To the mountain climbers. Mexico offers
inducements not surpassed by any other
country having seventeen mountains,
running from Jorulo, In Michoacan. the
lowest, 4,26o feet, up 70 Popocatepetl, H.
so feet
Old Mexico also offers a tempting field
20 American sportsmen. according to Dill
Ion Wallace who writes In Outing: II
wish 10 bring 20 the attention OF sports
men a large. new. and practically unvis-
tied region where game in great variety
is still as plentiful as In the old pioneer
days. Il is region, too. as quickly and
easily reached as the overturned districts
OF our own Rocky Mountains or in the
Canadian wilderness. in this country. as
formerly In the West. there arc no game
laws and no restrictions upon the chase
save aim and conscience.
The region referred 20 Is I'm Old Mex
leo. IL may be said that every species Of
game animal found on the North Ameri-
can continent south Of the fiftieth paral-
lei Of north latitude. except moose. carl
bou. and elk is found in Western Mexico
The silvertip bear ranges all through the
high Sierra Nadres. wherever there are
good feeding grounds, and wherever there
are grizzlies you may expect also the
huge cinnamon bear, the grizzlys close
neighbOr
THE common brown bear is NOT so
numerous. but the black bear IS quite
plentiful In the coast mountains ] could
not learn that this species had ever been
in the Sierra AIadres.
The higher mountains az all elevations
and even the lower foothills abound with
Whitehall deer. on the Pacific side they
are numerous almost TO the coast. and
I can vouCh from personal experience for
the quality OF their vensiOn. The mule,
burro. or blacktail inhaoits portions Of the
states or chihuahua. Coahuila and So
nora. and In this section are also found
mountain sheep. Perhaps the best sec
ton for biehorn I'm Mexico. however. is
in Lower California, but TO hunt there you
must have leisure. The game is too re-
mote TO be reached on an ordinary ex-
petition.
The mountain lion turks in all the
high country and along with him IS
sometimes found but seldom killed the
American panther. All the American
great cats. in fact iuhabit both the Pacific
and Gulf coasts and the foothills. The
small American leopard is very numer-