El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-16
Climate Attracts
the People
From
the South

Mexico City, d. r, April 16--Twenty-
three Of the 81 men in a car Of the train
which bore me south from Cordoba into
the heart of the Mexican tropics were
farmers from Kansas. Most of them
were young, So or under, but there We're
not few elderly men and two or three
who We're close 10 20 They were Gu
rieusly variegated lot, considered from
the standpoint of racial origin. All
were citizens of the United States, but
none of them was Of what is allied
American stock"
OF the older men. a majority were
citizens by process OF naturalization
The younger men we're sons OF parents
who In the last generation had emlgrated
from continental Europe to the new
world Their names suggested Teutonic
or Slavoaic beginnings Only one was
an American born and bred, whose fore
fathers had been of the people of the
northern republic for more than quar-
ter of a century. They were a prosper
Gus and well dressed lot and they dis
cussed keenly and intelligently the
novel scenes and impressions which their
journey through a strange land had
provided them.
Contact with these men was enlight-
ching. not only in the way of bringing
one to an appreciation of the quality
and number OF landseekers from the
United States who flocked into Mexico
the past winter. but also for forming
an estimation Of their quality of citi-
zenship, and the purposes which
brought them below the Rio Grande.
Buying Land in Mexico.
no you men intend to settle in Mex
icoT' 7 asked a brawny six footer who
seemed TO be the leading spirit OF the
party.
Some of US do he answered. Most
of US own a bit of land down the road"
We were then rolling through the mag
nificent green grazing country below
Perez. Vera Cruz, land we are going
to have a look at it. We bought the
land insight and unseen from agents
It cost us $3.50 gold an acre four years
ago. and awhile back We got Of
fers of IS gold an acre We
thought ii would be good idea TO
come down this winter and find out
what we had bought 1 don't believe
that any of the older men will stay
down longer than a month or two, but
most Of Us young fellows are fixing to
settle and grow up with the country"
-why?-
Well, it's this way" was the reply.
Our fathers own big. farms IN Kan
sas. They have made money, and US
young fellows have helped them. We
have worked hard, toe but our fathers
worked harder than We have. or ever
intend to- We don't feel like staying
on the home place, waiting for the old
folks to die, SO we're going to get out
end shuck for ourselves"
Climate Is Better.
why don't you stay In the United
States. go farther west or try the Ca
madam northwest"
~Climate," was the terse response
Winters are TOO cold and long, especial
" in Canada There are lot of things
about farming in Mexico. in the tropics
that appeal TO q fellow. Il what they
say about it is true That's what we
are going 10 find out before we finally
decide about staying here-if they are
true. They say that you can raise a
crop every month in the year on this
land down here. That's mighty inter
esting to a northern farmer who has
TO make allowance for winter and snow,
and who cannot work his land more
than eight months of the year, at the
outside"
Absence Of Cold.
That was what seemed TO make the