The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-04-08

cat tie. camels and sheep owned by
Job, the famed monOpoiast OF q Lano
OF u. and he also raises corn. Whedt.
beans and potatoes. Nevertheless not
one-twentieth Of his lands are unoer
cultivation, and his Indian
cannot buy an acre to hold in Zee
simple.
is Mrs. Sarah H. De Lee. She has over
a million acres. and Of these h -cul-
tivates only fifty thousand.
In the state Of Tlaxcala. which Is
about half the size of Connecticut.
lthirty-nine persons or families own all
the land, and this notwithstanding n
| population is almost 200. 900. In the
territory Of Topic, which has over
over 10000 inhabitants. the country
is practically owned by thirty-one
families. and in Tamaulipas lives Man
; uel Gonzales. who ownst three and one
half million acres, or an area which
is almost two-thirds as big AS Massa-
I chusettes. Nevertheless. Gonzales cul-
| tivates only one acre in every seven
hundred, and his S horde Of poems
| do not own the land upon which thelr
rude homes are built.
Some Big Tropical Farms.
The state of Vera Cruz is largely
made up Of tropical IOWlands. and its
properties are about the most sub
, divided of all the Mexican states.
Nevertheless there are nan land
holders there possessing from $780,
900 to 100000 acres each. and a man
named Braniff, who is Of British and
Spanish descent, has $4,000 acres
planted to wheat and many qua
miles devoted to cattle. He has thirty
acres Of lawn in his home grounds
and he lives like a lord. His hacienda
employs 1900 men, n it takes a
population Of more than 5000 to care
for it. Ten thousand cattle feed upon
its pastures, and amor them are
some Of the best animals which fight
in the bullring at Mexico City. This
! plantation has large irrigated areas
canals at a cost Of hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars. The plantation ha
railroads upon it and a Hour mil
worked by electricity.
In Yucatan there are also large es
tates, some Of them exceedingly profit,
! able, owing to the cultivation o
hemp. The same large holdings nigh
! be cited in other parts OF the re
: public, but this will show you hov
: the lands are tied up and kept out O
h hands Of the people who Wouls
' cultivate them.
! Extravaganza Of the Rich.
( These haciendados, as the plutocra
8 landhOlderS are called, have none
. beyond the dreams Of avarice. The
: usually live magnificiently upon thei
4 estates, but just now, while the rebel
o n bandits are moving about owe
Mexico. a large number of them hav
tcome here to the capital, while other
y have left for Madrid and Paris. /
some cases the fighting is going o
upon their haciendas and they wa1
: their families to be away from tn
o idanser Of lnObs. On this accOun
q not a few Of them have rented c
e bought houses here. and for the pas
two years have kept off their farms.
1t rs on some OF the biggest estate
n that most Of the fighting goes on. Tai
l. that OF TerraZas. The rebels Of Oh
IS huahua have torn up the railroad
and the Mexican Central line, whic
II goes south from FL Paso. has bee
IS long out of running. The troub
,r there has largely come through TIE.
razas himself, who is said to be
autocratic as the Car OF Russia. Z
IS lis now an cid man, but his sons rul
ia n it is they who are trying I pr
I'd tect the property.
I'd Don Luis Terraz2s.
he / have heard a great deal abo'
h Terrazas family since I came heI
us Outside the land the old man ow
the most Of the public utiliti les Of h
st neighborhood and he also loans mo
re ey at high rate Of interest. He co
n trolls the banks and his income is enc
nous. He ives like a lord and e
he tertains royalty on his great haciend
rs He can house 100 guests at q tin
I'D and he keeps up an est ablishment
'ef servants fit for a king. Some tir
is ago he asked the archbishop OF 1
an Roman Catholic Church to dedicate
new house Of worship on one of l
at ranches. The holy father came wi
a great corps Of guests and Don Ii
in kept them for more han three weel
ell. making up hunting parties and {
m ~cursions of various KINDS. During Il
q time the guests had white horses on
to the old h~aciendado having picked G
Of his thousands OF animals those
nd that c0for and had them trained
hi the purpose.
an. I1iYRg Thousand Hired Men.
ne Don Luis big estate came larg
re. from a grant which his fat her obea
In ed for his services ia the war for n,
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