The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1912-03-07
DEFENDS TROPICAL.
COUNTRY

. Lear D,;ar, Sir My brother sent me
a clipping from a paper which
,; suppose was printed in Grange
VUliie, written by Mr. T. h
Graham under the title .Mex;ao
Continued in which he points
out some of the valuable points
IN Mexico. He says the land
looked like a land of starvat;an
ana great many other things
part OF which | am willing to ad,
mt Is true, as would any one else
that has been through the north
OF Mexico. But if Mr.. Graham
mas been through Mexico and
mas seen 1t as one would suppose
ne has, why don't he tell what
he has seen.
was talking with an acquaint-
ance of Mr.. Graham the other
DAY and he said Mr.. Graham
could tell more about Mexico
than people who had lived there
Tor several years. He tells about
potatoes being shipped here
from France and were worth
$o.OO per 100 lbs. and that flour
was only $1,000 per 100 lbs. But
ne failed to add that this price
was Mexican money, worth so
cts. on the dollar, and that good
building lumber was worth S75-
w gold per 1000 and not made
In Mexico either. But he says
nothing about the pine forests
that Welrhauser bought two
years ago in the states of Duran
go and Qacatacas and Coahuila.
Now Cordoba, a town Mr..
Graham passed through on his
road home, has street cars drawn
by four mules. 1t is true the
mules do not weigh more than
1000 lbs, but he can not find
poor mule in the $50 head that
the company use. AS to build
ing lumber, | can buy pine and
fir from Florida and Georgia
that is dressed on both sides
in Vera Cruz for $4,000 to $500
per 1000 feet Mexican money,
just one half the price he quotes.
In Cordoba l can buy native pine
from Frasir's mill for 1915
(Mexican,) for IL boards 1x12x9
feet or in other words 10S feet
for $1.87 gold. Cedar boards
1x12x1O feet are worth rs cts.
each, gold. Black walnut about
the same, and it is Mexican lum-
Der sawed here in this part Of
the country.
Potatoes, the last | bought
were 200 lbs. for 1925 Mexican
money, or $1.56 gold per 100
lbs., and they did not come from
France either-raised right here.
We have cabbage, lettuce, toma-
toes, carrots, turnips, string beans
roasting ears most every month
in the year. | have hunted con-
siderable in Mexico and have
killed just as fat game here as IN
Idaho and l have never found
any dead birds or animals starv-
ed to death.
He says that there are two or
three states in the southeast that
might raise a little sugar cane,
bananas, pine apples and such
stuff. Now he came through sew
eral sugar cane plantations on
the V. C. & lsthmus X. II.
Tezeonapa has more than 1000
acres in sugar cane; Matzorango
has 2OOO acres, San Magilleto has
800 acres, Ell Potrero has 1900
acres and the machinery with
which to work it. The reports
of these mills are that there IS
profit of from $4,000 to S400.0o
Mexican money per acre IN sugar
cane. r. N. Vannan, LOUISIANA
sugar raiser, after thorough IN
spection of this part OF Mexico
gives a profit on an acre OF sugar
cane. 5000 lbs. sugar at Gus
Mexican. This is $4,000. a
sugar planter near Vista her
mosa says that for every ton oil
cane he grinds he gets 100 IDS
sugar, and an acre yields IRON
40 TO 60 tons. He sells his raw
suear for 5cts. and has the syrup
and alcohol extra. r
| could keep on through all OF
their reports with like results.
While | have been writing tiliS
four carloads of bananas ana
four of corn have passed III Iroh'
Of the door on the narrow gua9e
road Cordoba has one OF tnG
largest coffee houses in the Wofiu
and besides this there are Tour
more in the city. Plant 20oO trees
of coffee to an acre and 1t yleldS
ON an average Of 2 lbs. TO the