The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-02-01
MEXICO CONTINUED.

MEXICO CONTINUED.
Some points not given in for
mer letter but will point out
some of the invaluable object.
of prosperity in that old land
AS we crossed the line going in
to Mexico we could see nothing
but jungle, desert and some very
poor goats. This land looked
like a land of starvation. | have
often heard the remark that the
United States should own Mex
leo but l didn t see it that way ;
could not see the advantage of
the United States taking charge
of a few million paupers. Mex
leo is like some of the desert land
in the United States, there being
no way of getting water on mil
lions of acres of their now worth
less land, where we could travel
a thousand miles and not see
enough grass to make hens nest.
Their mountains are nothing but
bear rock; their timber, what lit
tie they have is only fit for fire
wood. The first place we got
off the train to see anything, we
found the soil was of the most
DOLBY nature and a pillow positive
ly would not scour. Their gar
den vegetables were very poor.
The potatoes they had for hotel
use were SHIPPED from France and
only cost eight dollars hundred,
and their climate was not at all
tropical. Their water was Sc
cured from cisterns. They could
not have wells on account of
their land being underlaid with
salt; their stock water was about
five miles away, and we learned
that flour only cost ten dollars
per hundred. Good building lum-
Der cost seventy-five dollars in
gold per thousand and it WASH t
manufactured in Mexico either.
In the town of Tampico, with it's
grand location the street cars
were pulled by two old skinny
mules one ahead of the other, and |
a man would walk faster than |
they would travel. Above all |
things we found some of the
most grating real estate men in
the world, but as luck would
have it the majority of the .trav-
cling people had two eyes to
see with and the sharks were
very hungry and ferocious,
And from the rotten advertise
nents that have been put out as
bait for the people, telling
lbout their wild fruits of many
'arletles and their game and their
legant corn and a thousand
'ther advantages about this that
nd the other, to get some one
0 leave a good home in land
t plenty and give those sharks
heir money for home in the
and of poverty and graft, where
he wild animals and birds never
ct enough to eat and are in a
tarving condition, don't think
Or a moment that / could advise
nyone to go to such place,
here the ticks and mosquitoes
nd chiggers and a thousand
Their insects would poster them
he balance of their days. / can
My say this good for Mexico,
lere is some two or three states
/ the southeast part of the coun-
~ where they have some good
Office land that seemed to be
God also for sugar cane. oranges
nd bananas and pineapples,
he rest of their truck was of but
title value in my estimation and
heir horses, cattle, hogs, goats,
heep and in fact all kinds Of
took were surprisingly inferior.
all these different things
have mentioned the government
f Mexico is fraud on the face
f the globe and the native peo-
lie are more ignorant than our
ogs, and yet they are your neigh
ors when you go to live in
heir land, so / would conscien-
iously advise people of this yam
zee nation to stay closer by it
han ever and beware of the
harks that exist among the