New-York tribune., 1910-11-20

as the State of Rhode Island. TIE Pa1ornas
ranch, which stretches along the border for
1ss miles contains 100000 aCr e$-Oue- and
one-half times the area of Maryland 1t 3
owne by Los Angeles capitalists
An American project. backed by a New
York syndicate. for adding to the great 'r-
rigated lands in the valley Of the Nazas
River, is described the greatest agri-
cultural undertaking IN the hemisphere
1t is now building a large dam of q new
pattern, a main canal seventy-five miles IN
length, and 500 miles of smaller branches
1t will water nearly 1900 acres of the finest
cotton lands in Mexico. The output from
the irrigated land in a successful season Is
said to be one bale to an acre. which would
make the product of 1900 acres worth
s375 0C0 in the New York market.
Sugar raising. which calls for the milling
Of the cane It comes from the fields. Is
an industry which naturally tends to con-
sulidate great plantations under single
management A sugar plantation il
small town in Itself with mill. distil-
lery. storehouses. tool sheds. d village for
the Iaborers and two ur three large houses
for the over. eers. Often the plant includes
a railroad to bring the cane TO the mill
Sometimes the rails run across the plan
tation. separating the fields; sometimes a
temporary track is laid directly 10 the point
where the cutting is going on
In recent years the purchases OF sugar
plantations and sugar lands by Americans
have been enormous. whole district III
: the sugar region is covered with American
plantations. varying in size from lctOo 10
10000 acres. The smallest OF them repre-
serts hundreds of thousands Of dollars; the
Iarger-and many run above 5000 acTeS-
count for a million OF more In sooa
season sugar land has paid as high as 30
an acre of clear profit
The largest American agricultural col
ony, however. is in the Hausteca olsIrlcI'
which lies between the Gulf and the noun
tair wall or the Mexican table land from
/ Vera cruz north to Tampico- Here the
/ farming is not conducted on the prtnceiy
I scale OF the sugar districts, but the noio-
/ ings are still far from small
| In Hausteca there are five thousand
Americans They have their own schools
( 4, nJexfco wherever there are two faI1ilieS
/ that can contribute child or TWO apiece
| +bere Is an American schOOl-theIr own
churches and their own newspapers one
| colony OF settlers contains 1,0oO,@O acres
! Other holdings amount TO i,0ooOH acres II
| Is said that the Americans now IN. rtauStecd
paid 100000 for their holdings
The crops here are rice. corn, some sugar
nfneapples, fruits and henequin- OF sisa
/ hernp. one OF the remarkable things aDol
/ Mexico is the strange congress OF virtues
which meets in the national plant til'
/ n1,loue The puique is known also as th'
agave. aloe and century plant Time ou
| of mind. since long before Cortez OF %
1,,n,hus. the Mexicans have used the puiqu'
for clothing. paper needles. thread. fodder
roofs. and what-not. But its Two chle
products. which. be II remembered ar
linked together by no less humoTlst trlai
Nature herself are the national tntoxlcan
and an excellent quality of hemp Hene
nuin- the fibrous irwards OF the pulque' l.
a rnost profitable material for export, ant
is raised in great quantities
In mere commerce, OF course, the nite'
states has q great deal at stake in Mexico
The iunports of the republic last year wer
SOS Of0 coo american money!, and or ina
trade 97e1o.0t0 came from the nlte'
States Trade like everything else in Mex
iro e-oes in masses The salesman for
harvesting machinery firm was struck b.
rhe complaint OF a ranchman TO whom n
was irving TO make sale that the mar
,,as+Ar was unsuited for use with oxen y
, one had the time OF the money TO vast
. hrviUg mules in that country, he salo
, and the manufacturers evidently did no