The Holbrook news., 1911-03-31
N|ZZNCAN COL OlYX TCIT/ 0F MEX/CO

" / %<- ~ V for oil. The invasion was successful.
 One of the earlier American ven lures was a cotton mill. Cotton cloth is product that is in demand every which already raised a limited supply of cotton. The American investment in Mexican cotton mills today amounts to millions.
 Development of Manufactures.
 Manufactures intended for use with growth than those devoted to prepar. ing important staples for export. Yet American capital has entered this field, too. American textile mills are scattered throughout the republic and American plants manufacture paper, flour, soap and a hundred other com modities that are consumed within the country. One American shoe fr tory in Mexico City turns out 5000 pairs of shoes a day. Its capital is s1,000,- 900.
 Electric plants of great power have been installed at many Mexican waterfalls. German and English pro moters have constructed the greater number of these, but some of the most important are purely American enter prises.
 A Florida orange grower who had been ruined by the great frost" of 13 years ago, went to Mexico and bought few acres in the foothills near Tampico, on the gulf coast. When he told his neighbors that he meant to raise oranges there they laughed at him. Today the Tampico district ex- ports it's oranges, lemons and grape fruit to England and America. The Floridian who introduced citrus fruit culture is now a millionaire. He was quick to see the possibilities of a fruit nursery and has practically a monopoly of the sale of young trees in the republic.
 Progress of Agriculture.
 In all the agricultural awakenings' of Mexico, Americans have played the alarm clock. The investment in lands and irrigation schemes is not so heavy as that in the mines, but 1t is growing at a remarkable rate Only a few months ago a Texas ranchman leased 600.000 acres of land in the state of Chiapas, on which to raise cattle and horses-a farm three-fourths as large as the state of Rhode Island. The Palomas ranch, which stretches along the border for 169 miles, contains g. 100000 acres-one and one-half times the area of Maryland. It is owned by Los Angeles capitalists.
 An American project, backed by New York syndicate. for adding to the great irrigated lands in the valley of the Nazas river, is described as 'the greatest agricultural undertaking in the hemisphere" It is now building a large dam of a new pattern, a main canal 75 miles in length, and 800 miles of smaller branches. It will water nearly 75,000 acres of the finest cotton lands in Mexico. The output from the irrigated land in successful season is said to be one bale to an acre, which would make the product of 75,O00 acres worth S375,O00 in the New York market.
 In recent years the purchases of OQ6d1 p1aAldlAOAo anu sugar DJ Americans have been enormous. A whole district in the sugar region is covered with American plantations, varying in size from 10000 to 100000 acres. The smallest of them repre- sents hundreds of thousands of dol lars; the larger-and many run above 6O,0O0 acres-count for $1,0O0,000 or more. In a good season sugar land has paid as high as $75 an acre of clear profit.
 In mere commerce, of course. the United States has a great deal at stake in Mexico. The imports of the republic last year were $SS,000, 900 (American money), and of that traie s57, 100000 came from the United States.