The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-04-15

100000, and with this income as a
has :, it would take Mexico twenty
yeals to make good its obligations.
But it will take the Madero admin
ietration, if it survives, much longer
| III in that for the ""aSon that the ma
tional income under Diaz was predict
ed on peaceful conditions and pros
| porous times. Mexico, with it's coun-
try laid waste and foreign capital
apprehensive of further turmoil, will
not at once return to It's former in
come.
Many OF the foreign investors who
have suffered financial loss have COM
planned bitterly to their home govern
ments because the United States, the
only government having the legal
right to interfere. has taken no action
to protect their holdings
! One OF these is said to be the Ger
man consul at Chihuahua, Henry
Kuck, who was formerly the manager
o. the thee large wholesale StI~rs
OF Kettles0h & Degetau, in northern
Mexico. The firm had one store in
| Juarez, which is said to have suffered
a loss of $l50,000; another in the city
of chihuahua itself which was capital
lied at 100000 and wnlcn has suffered
from looters to the extent that il is
temporarily all but ruined. and anoth
er in Cases Grandes, which also has
made claim against the Mexican
government.
Similar complaint has been made
by an English syndicate. which owns
: the Mexican North Western Railroad
company. The railroad has suffered
loses OF hundreds of thosands of dol
lars through the burning of bridges.
seizure Of rolling stock. destruction
Of roundhouses, and tearing up tracks
The road is now again in operation,
but during the time it was idle it suf-
fered great losses. it is alleged, be-
cause of its inability to ship lumber
and transact business. The road has
great lumber mills at PersOn and Ma
dero, and its shipments from these
points to FL Paso and other cities
reach an aggregate of 500, 900 feet of
lumber a day.
The syndicate's claim against the
Mexican government is based not
alone on the losses sustained in this
revolution but also includes those
suffered in the Madero rebellion.
Considerable English money is in
vested, TOO, in the Tlahualilo cotton
plantation which has $1,000 acres for
ty miles north of Torreon. This firm
has lost through theft, mules. horses,
wagons and other equipment wort i
many thousands of dollars.
The Continental Rubber company.
which has 2,000.0U0 acres at Torreon.
has been forced to suspend operations.
The plant has been shut down.
The Guggenheim Smelter at Torreon
and Chihuhua, which employs 1000
men regularly and as high as 1000
men at times has also been closed and
much loss through destruction of pro.
pertY and suspension of business has
resulted
A similar condition exists at Sierra
Majada. near Escalon. at the smelters
there. The Guggenheims are supposed
to own the COMPANY The firm has
leo miles Of railroad, and this too.
has suffered through destruction of
rolling stock and theft.
II the Madero government survives
the present rebellion Mt will not be
very long before the crushing burden
OF taxation which will have to be i'm
posed on the people to meet interest
on the immense debt. will cause anoth-
er revolution.
Mexico would have been more pros
Porous under the iron hand of Diaz,
with his tyranny. than it is today un
der an incompetent government, un-
able 10 pay its debt or crush a haHi- !
ful of bandits.