The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1912-03-14
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TERY[NE in MEXICO
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honor, in the Mexican imbroglio, it
may be depended on that both the
president and congress will seize on
that way.
The situation in the southern repub-
lie seems hourly to be growing more
menacing to foreigners within it's
boundaries. The struggle going on
there is likely to continue for long
time, for the country is large, means
of communication are imperfect and
the government seems to be but made
quately equipped to cope with the
revolutionists.
! Not only are American interests in
Mexico imperiled, but many business
| interests not in the country are men
aced. However, this government is
taking every means at its command
to bring about better conditions, and
to make the sending of troops across
the border unnecessary.
San Diego and Mexico.
| In view of the fact that the city of
San Diego is just across the border
| from Mexico, some persons may have
suspected that the feeling being man
ifested among the Mexicans would be
prejudical to the big exposition on
which San Diego is just now indus
triously engaged. Nothing could well
be more erroneous. San Diego is, in
truth, but short time by rail from the
Mexican line, but across that line
there is little to tempt either revolu
Zionist or federal just now. In fact,
the upper part of the peninsula Of
lower California is dry and barren.
The only settlement near San Diego
is the little border town of Tia Juana,
where bull fights are pulled off for the
delectation of visitors. There is a
customs house there but the entire
receipts could hardly pay the wages
of a corporal's guard.
Some of these days the land on the
Mexican side of the line will be irri-
gated and put into cultivation. When
that time comes it will prove to be as
fruitful as the American side, where
everything not of strictly tropical
character, and requiring much mois
ture, can be grown with profit The
newest triumph of the government s
agricultural experts is the successful
introduction of the date, which is be-
ing grown in San Diego's back
yard over along the edge of the
desert, with such profit as to create
quite furore These dates can now
be bought in the best eastern fruit
stores. One of the features of the
San Diego exposition will be a repro
duction of desert oasis with the
palms bearing their great lunches of
dates, the well where the Arabs or
Bedouins water their camels, and all
of the accessories except perhaps the
famed and dreaded monsoons of the
desert-that fearful wind storm which
can be duplicated nowhere else; GER
tainlv not in southern California.
Rubber Prom Sage Brush.
While the agricultural appropria
tion bill was pending in the house of
representatives Raker, of California,
offered an amendment appropriating
So 900 to study plants, brush and trees
which may be used for rubber manu-
facture, his main purpose being to
have a study made of western sage to
ascertain whether or not, as supposed,
it is real source of rubber The
Democratic membership of the house
voted down the amendment after it
had been explained by Raker. In urg-
ing the adoption of his amendment
Mr.. Raker said:
"My purpose is not to send out
rubber plants, not to produce plants,
but to make a study of plants and
shrubs common to the west, which
are supposed to contain rubber. This
matter has been under private inves
tigation in the west with some degree
of success. 1t is thought that out of
sage brush the best rubber on earth
can be made We have asked the de-
partment to help us; individuals have
gone into it and have given it all the
consideration they could, but they
have not the money.
"We would like to have tested
plants now in existence, the shrub
berry that is being destroyed and
burned. 1t is claimed that there is a
large percentage of rubber in them
which ought to be utilized, and it
ought to be tested. It ought to be
made commercial instead of being de-
stroped. If the department, by virtue
of it's experience in this matter, can
send couple of men into the west
to make these experiments, is it not
right, is it not proper, and ought not
they to do itf
"Some people have given a good
deal of study and thought to the mat
ter, and at one time, few years ago,
it was determined to build a factory.
They felt as if they had not enough
knowledge in regard to the matter,
that they were not warranted in GO
ing on with the enterprise
Land Valueless Now.
"These people believe that there is
material in sage brush that can be
extracted from it which will make as
good rubber as is being used today.
There are millions of acres of land
with sage brush upon it. Instead of
destroying that, if it produces ma
terial that will make rubber, ought
not we to investigate the mattere
Nothing will live upon that land now.
No one knows any good that it will
ever do. Why not find out what is in
the sage brush and other plants of the
kind. You are spending money for
every other condition. You are seek
ing to add new plants, and the very
things that YOU have in the ground