The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1909-06-03
TAMAUMPAs DEVELOPMENT

The colonization of Tamaulipas is
rapidly going ahead and soon this
state will be one of the most thickly
settled in the entire Republic Hardly
a day goes by but that some company
or other purchases a large tract of
land in the neighboring state for col
onization purposes. Most of these
are for agricultural purposes and set
tie along the gulf coast. So great has
been this influx of coiOnists that land
has Increased in value a thousand per
cent and is still going up. This land
is some Of the richest agricUltUrally
that is known in this country, and
the dealers who have purchased the
land are reaping a harvest off of it.
Most of it is being exploited as hen
nequin land and brings a ready sale
in the market. Farmers from the
States are hocking to Tamaulipas and
especially in the vicinity of Xicoten-
catl and that section of Veraeruz ~
ing to the immediate south This
land is well watered and crops are a
certainty in these sections.
Hennequin is one of the crops of
Mexico that is almost certain and at
the present time is commanding
prices far higher than ever before,
but this is only because one firm has
a corner on the market, much the
same as the Patten wheat corner in
the United states. Whether the price
will drop away from what it is at the
present time is not known, but with
good producing land there is an enor-
nous amount of money to be made
from hennequin by the planter, more
so probably than any other similar
crop in the Republic Yucatan here
tofore has been the home of henne-
quin in the Republic, but with the
development of Tamaulipas much of
the export hennequin will be grown
in this state. Besides hennequin Ia
maulipas is well adapted to the fruit
growing industry and oranges and
lemons grow here in profusion. This
Industry is, however, in its infancy,
as it were, but it is bound to come to
the front with the development and
attention that is now being given it
BY the many land companies that
have been organized in this section
of the country.
Tamaulipas is the land of promise,
rich in minerals and oil and agricul-
tUrally there is no reason why the
land should not be made TO blossom
and bear forth the fruit of the earth.
Capitalists are coming every day
TO the Republic for the purpose of in
yesting in lands in Mexico and Mon
terey is the first place they strike
upon entering the Republic. The
merchants and landowners of this
city should do all in their power to
secure the Investment of this wealth
close to our city With the develop
meHt of Tamaulipas comes also the
development of Monterey and the re-
steral of good times to this section
of the country once more. All the
fruit and hennequin that can be
raised in Tamaulipas can be induced
to move through this city and Mon
terey is the logical pace for it to so
move. but it will not come without
an effort for other towns viii work
for it also, and if Monterey just sits
idly by and makes no effort to secure
this trade, why, some one else will
get it and Monterey will be the loser
In connection with the develop
ment of the agriculture of Tamaull-
pas comes the question of railroad
development in that state. For some
years the -Tampico propo-
sition has been before the public with
now and then articles of another road
crossing the Rio Grande above Mat
amoros. This project is still on pa
pei. as it were, but on both of them
engineers have been out making the
preliminary surveys, and on one of
them the location survey has been
run. These railroads are needed for
that country and Monterey needs
them also. Which one will be built
and when is beyond the conjecture of
any one, but in the meanwhile, Mon
terey business men should get busy
and secure the rapidly growing trade
of Tamaulipas for this city, for trade
once secured it is hard to divert it
into ether channels. Monterey