El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-03-25
MONEY IS NEEDED
To SUCCEED IN
MEXICO NOW
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a pitiful existence they lead. Strangers
to the language, unacquainted with the
customs of the natives and unable to
get along with them, the lot .of these
people is a hard one. The sun of the
lowland country is fiercely hot, par
ticularly the semi-arid Pacific coast
region, and a northerner cannot toll in
it, so their difficulties are many and
serious
New Settlers Must Have Money.
Railroad officials, who are keenly
DESTROYS of seeing good American
farmers settle the lands along their
lines declare that there are many peO-
pie come to Mexico to live who have
no business to do so. First, there is
the class of people who have little
means. The chances of coming here
with only a few dollars and hoping to
prosper are so greatly against the man
who does it that he is advised to re-
main at home. Conservative railroad
men figure that a man needs at least
$1,000 of good American money to start
with He must have enough in reserve
to provide against the disappointments
that so often beset pioneer until he
gets his true bearings One Of the
booklets issued by the National rail-
confidence in the future of the Mex
lean farm-frankly advises the reader.
that the strongest man cannot secure
success unless he supplement his
strength and energy with necessary
accomplishments Enough money to
provide against delayed crops, for
necessary tools, as well as to pay for
ones land and house, is absolutely e.
sential. no less land rather more) in
NJ he
Young Men Succeed Best.
Usually the farmer over 45 who goes
to Mexico goes with the chances
against him, according TO those who
have followed intimately the flow of
northern immigrants The chances are
also against the man who starts out
by raising crops with which he is un-
familiar A Kansas farmer who has
grown wheat will probably make
failure with a rubber plantation, and
the apple grower of New York will
probably not achieve success with a
banana pIantation-unless he has
money enough to pay for experience
Every American who has made sue
cess in Mexico is ready to advise the
newcomer to stick to the crops with
which he was familiar at home and
feel his way by degrees with the crops
with which he is not familiar.
Perhaps the most attractive agricul-
tural country in Mexico is that lying
east of the great central table land
and back some distance from the Gulf
of Mexico. Here one can get an ele-
walton of from 1000 to 5000 feet in
serni-tropical region where it is never
so intensely hot yet where frost is
wholly unknown Rainfall is abundant.
most of the crops are comparatively
easy to raise and the yield Is large
If man grows tropical fruits he can
get practically as good a rate to east
ern markets as Cuba, and fully as good
as Costa Rica and Guatemala
Easy to Get Honest Opinion.
There are a number of soil experts
in Mexico whose services are to be had
for the examination of given tracts of
land and advice as to what crops are
best suited to those lands, and also for
counsel as TO whether the representa-
tions Of the land companies are true
There are so many sources of infor-
nation as to good and bad lands, as
to honest and dishonest companies. and
as to future prospects that 1t would
seem impossible for many enterprisinG
Americans with the pioneering spirit
in them to be deceived. And yet thou
sands of them have given up their en-
tire fortunes TO land companies made
UP of their own countrymen.
There are today in the files of the
poStoffice department in washington,
representations from the state depart
ment against a certain land company
from Philadelphia, looking to the de-
nal of the privilege of the mails to it.. !
This company had lands in Mexico to
sell for farming purposes, and as an
inducement offered to throw In fine |
building site in a town called Taft"
When the consular service investigated |
the representations it was found that |
Taft existed only in the minds Of
certain promoters.