The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-02-11

o oplihss' near mere, and they
nave Also a farm Of over a thoua, nd
acres which they are fertilizing with
tne city sewerage. I understand that
tney are experimenting with Egyp-
tian COTTON, and that the estate prom
isea to be a valuable one.
AS to the debt incurred for these
puDic works, Monterey will Le loaded
come. and whether it viii he able to
pay the principal remains To- be seen.
Americans I'm Mexico. /
IhSfe are several thousand Ameri-
cans mere In Monterey. They are in
terested IN the stores, in plantations
newspaper published in English and
! spanish. and a number Of our citi- |
zen have bought lands dong the road !
from here to Tampico. I had a talk |
with Consul General Philip C.. Hanna, |
who has had charge Of our foreign
past thirteen years. He has his Office
In this city and has twelve conkuls
Under him. stationed in different parts
OF the northern hall of the republic,
from whom he receives frequent re-
ports. He tens me that Mexico was
on the edge Of a boom at the time
the revolution broke out, and that
the republic mad then at least 50,-
200 Americans who were engaged i'll
business Of one kind or another.
There were 10000 or so, eco In north
ern Mexico and little colonies IN every
city Of size. Since the revolution
some OF these people have left, but
the wiz sd and children OF those Amer
a leans who lived in out-ef-the-way dis
tFicts and Of Americans who have
, gone away On account Of the depressed
. business state which the unsettled
conditions have caused. There are
still many American business men
, scattered all Over Mexico. General
Hanna thinks the number is perhaps
I 80 per n Of that before the revo-
luton began. He tells me that the
opportunities here are great for the
3 Investment Of American capital. and
!. predicts that there will be an Ameri-
can invasion as soon as the country
is stable.
He also estimates that there are
something like zoe, 600 Mexicans Ia
!, h United States. and that there are
perhaps 120,0aa in Texas. There are
many In Arizona n New Mexico
The sons n daughters Of the bet
ter Mexican families of the republic
e are now being sent to our country TO,
their education. nj there is scarcely
y an American college which has no
It's Mexican students. Many OF thu
~ boys are taking engineering and agri
- cultural courses, and at the same tim.
~ many agricultural experts are bein,
~ brought here from the United State
to give advice to h farmers ar
I'd to show how to make the big estate
ey pay. Some Of these are ex-clerks O
he our Agricultural Department. VIII
are paid double the salaries they hav
been getting at home, and other
~ have com from our State agriculture
IN colleges.
er Mexico in 1919.
IS. I am surprised how, little the aver
ty age citizen of the United States know
Of about Mexico. We send $780, 00 Ame1
leans to Europe every year, and the
In spend an average of a thousand do
lis lars apiece. or a total Of $500 coo
ar 600. They tramp themselves tire
n In the galleries, and scratch Hollan'
te, France, Germany and Italy as with
fine tooth comb for strange custom
re and. costumes. They do not fir
them. The truth is the Europe
is. today is all M It is practically tt
CHI same as the United States, and
or one would see the big things of trav
ia he had better go to the lower part
our own continent.
Of This Mexico is a world in itself, al
me it is a world of strange sights al
strange people. 1t has a populate
of more han fifteen million, and
be these al least twelve millions are 1
dams, the descendants of the Azte<
ely They cannot read or write. and
raj many respects are about the san
tho as the Aztecs Of the Montezums
all The other three million Mexicans a
the descendants Of the Spaniards
|, OF those with a large admixture OF I
see dian blood. They also have tn
EN-. queer costumes, ana as n rid
through the country he sees a NJ
the picture at every turn OF the eye.
out Picturesque Scenes.
our Coming here from the Rfo Gran
on I saw lusty, brigandlikesmen weari
rks great sombreros. the crowns Of Will
rect rose a foot above their heads a
on whose brims were a foot wide all I
,nds way around. Some Of these hats h
10 hoops Of silver about them as thi
ArS. as your wrist and gorgeous IN III
the mings or silver golo- Not a I
the wore coats OF short Jackets. orr