The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-02

yersity club in the Colonia section to which belong many American civ il and electrical engineers. as well as leading business men. Another i. the American club. in the heart ol the city. which is always filled with Americans and others at the noon lunehing hour. and third is the Country club. outside the city. where Americans go to loaf and play golf.
 We have here newspaper. the Mexican Herald. which is owned and edited by Americans. and there are several hotels managed by Amer. cans and at which most of the Ameri. jeans stay. In the first fight be tween Diaz and Madero the former dropped shell through the roof of Mrs. Porter's new American House
 In addition to the above eminently respectable class of Americans who have skill. money and brains. there are others of far different type We have few Americans in Mexico who have left the United States under clouds of one kind or another and we have some from over the border who have come in with chips on their shoulders which they dare any native to knock off This is the type which the Mexican calls the gringo He thinks there is no land like the Unit ed States, and is ready to prove it with fist or revolver He wounds the feelings of the Mexican, who is not urally polite. and he calls him a greaser It is this class that has had much to do with the ill feeling be- tween the two countries. The word greaser should be applied only 10 the rough and tough Mexican, who com pares with the better and soberer classes much as the gringo does with the gentlemanly American.
 There are undoubtedly many bad men of both nations in the country just now. and the present conditions of brigandage and revolution have led to large increase in outrages of one kind or other This is not only upon the Mexicans. but upon the foreigners as well. am told that these outrages in out-of-the-way plae es have been far more numerous than the United States thinks. and that much greater number of Am orleans have been killed than is gen orally supposed
 Does the Mexican Like the American?
 This is a question which is often asked. If you put it to a Mexican gentleman of the better class he will tell you yes. and that his country looks to the United States for it's de velopment and culture He will show you that a large proportion of the Mexican boys and girls who go abroad to be educated are sent to the United States, and that Mexicos trade is greater with that country than with any other nation. On the other hand the Mexican is much like the Russian. If you scratch the Rus, sian deep enough you will find him a Tartar. The real Mexican is I c npI lN loI; h1 likes Americans He is jealous and he covets American ability to make money and do big things. He is frightened at the preponderance of American investments, and in his quer and take possession of the land, The more you protest. the greater he thinks is yous hypocrisy. Moreover the better classes here have con tempt for business and business men They would rather have govern ment clerkship or be one of tho hangers-on to a rich haciendado than mine manager at 5000 year.
 The peons are like the Mexicans They are polite. and American bluff ways are disagreeable to them. The average American does not under stand how to handle them. and he makes enemies where the native em ployer does not.
 Some Big Investments in Mexico
 Many of the Yankees single invest ments here run high into the mil lions. This is so of the mines and smelters. the latter being largely owned by the Guggenheims. Some of the most important mining com panies are operated under charters from American states, and not few have capital stocks running high into the millions. The American Smelt- ing and Refining company is capital ized at $1OOOOO,OOO. and it has al. ready paid dividends of $5S.0G0, 900 with a surplus of s17.OOO.00O. The Batopilas Mining company. which has the properties developed by the late Gov. Shejherd, has $9.O00,00O of capitalization, and it's surplus is something like $3,O0G,000. Ths Greene Cananea Copper company which has extensive mines in Sono. ra, has an authorized capital of $60- OO0,OOO, and its production in 1911 was over Al 900 900 pounds of copper