The border vidette., 1912-05-04
THE WEST COAST OF MEXICO.

A trip down the West Coast of Mexico over the Southern Pacific Railway lines is more of d true education than years in a school. Such a trip teaches the business man possibilities for increase that never dreamed were yet in the world. Such a trip takes one absolutely away from what is, into what has been.
 Innovations have come, it is true; but so few of them that one must search to ind them - otherwise the country, the GUS toms, the people will be found exactly as an hundred years d gone. One passes from the dry heat of the American desert country to the breeze swept coastal plains Of Sonora, SinalOa and Topic and on up into the mountains of Topic, where there is never frost nor great heat. Passes also from one stage of devlOpment to another, from a section of common crops to those he has only read of, till his mind becomes so accustomed to wonders that mo longer does he rapture and eXclaim, but sits right and gazeS intently and pOnderS- over the future and it's great possibilities. No field of endeavOr is Overrdn-nO field in fact, has been even partially de
 veloped. The Mexican people, the natives of the cOuntry-SOl- icit the energetic American. and make his stay most pleasant. if it be for a day or forever. The whole atmosphere is of unbound
 ed OSpitality, of eager wiShful- ness for your friendship. A young man said to me the other day: You don't knOW-yOu can not conceive-what a hold this country has on me. I came in before the ditch of the company was started, and have remained till now when it is completed. 1 have seen the soil turned by blows, the seed SOWn, the water turned on. and within three days the plants breaking through the ground and finally the full nary est. It is so wonderful such a productive country that ~One'S efforts are rewarded more richly than from tilljng the famous soil of the Nile" That's the reason it gets all of uS-itS bOunties. We do not move from our ia ther'S habit6tion for pleasure - no matter whether we go to the city, to the next county, out west" or to MexicO-we always. E) And there is no section of the North American continent Where this is to be found possible as in the Mexican West Coast. The agricultural possibilities are tremendous sand the mining are even greater.
 One hears of the antiguas'' the mines operated by the AztecS and Spaniards-and he ponders over these things and most often thinks they are simple fakes. Whenever you actually do get hold of an antigua and | speak from experience personally and of many men I know well-in 99' cases out of 100 you have a mine You will have to clean out old WOI StIlSl solIIh OSlOW OliCIH. or whatever other thing may be necessary in your particular case: but if you use good judgment and do not get cold feet you have the mine This is the fact And as to uneXplored country of promise for mines its area is boundless. Most of us who have been interested in mines, and yet are, believe that this section of the world is one of the richest in naturalization. It is health ful country, tOO-and the eli mate is grand. It is impossible for me to say too much about the Mexican West Coast, for no ad- jectives have been coined to ade- quately tell what only the eye can possibly take in and cause the heart to believe. .-Chas. |. Dinsmore in The Fl Faso Min ing Journal.