Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1911-04-28

for oil The invasion was successful
One of the earlier American ven.
lures was a cotton mill Cotton cloth
is a product that is in demand every.
where and there We're plantations
which already raised a limited supply
of cotton, The American Investment
IN Mexican cotton mills today amount,
to millions.
Development of Manufactures.
Manufactures intended for use with
in the country are naturally of slower
growth than those devoted to prepar
ing important staples for export. Yet
American capital has entered this
field, too. American textile mills ara
scattered throughout the republic and
American plants manufacture paper
flour, soap and a hundred other com
modities that are consumed within thu
country. One American shoe faetort
in Mexico City turns out 5000 pairs
of shoes a day. It's capital is $1,000,
900.
Electric plants of great power
have been installed at many Mexican
waterfalls. German and English pro
motors have constructed the greater
number of these, but some of the most
important are purely American enter
prfses.
A Florida orange grower who had
been ruined by the great frost" Of
IS years ago, went to Mexico and
bought a 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 al
him. Today the Tampico district ex
ports its 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
fruit nursery and has practically Al
monopoly Of the sale of young treef
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 it is growing
at remarkable rate. Only a few
months ago a Texas ranchman leased
100000 acres of land in the state Of
Chlapas, 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 1869 miles, contains z.
o0o,OO0 acres-one and one-half times
the area of Maryland. 1t 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 1t is now building
a large dam of new pattern, main
canal 70 miles in length, and 800 miles
OF smaller branches. It will water
nearly $4,000 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
$1,000 acres worth $375,o0O in the
New York market.
IN recent years the purchases Of
sugar plantations and sugar lands by
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-
SCENTS hundreds of thousands of dol
lars; the larger-and many run above
0o'ooo acres-count for $1,0OO,00O or
more. In good season sugar land
mas paid as high as SIS an acre Of
clear profit.
IN mere commerce, of course. the
United States has great deal at
stake In Mexico. The imports of the
last year were $98,000,000
american money!, and of that TRACE
S51 ,O00, 900 came from the limited