Bisbee daily review., 1913-11-02
Investor Says Desertions Growing From Both Arm- ies in Mexico = Masses Tired and Ready to Quit
Americans Seeking Invest ments in Country, Where
 Opportunities Are Greater Than They Will Be Again

! How will the troubles in Mexico [ terminate? In the simplest possibIa
 manner. The people will quit the
 military game, put down their arms and turn back to peaceful pursuits. They have been playing soldier quite while. The novelty is rapidly wearing off and they are about ready
 to put the toy aside In fact they are 1 doing this in increasing number cv- cry day. It will not be long until the
 movement is wholly popularized and in full tide"
 mining engineer and investor in
 mining properties who arrived in jhe city yesterday quietly from trip through Sinaloa and Sonora gave the above statement to a Review repre- sentative last evening in response 10 question as to the situation and prob. able ultimate outcome in Mexicn. Having mining and land interests n both states and being under obliga- tions to both rebels and federals for protection extended, he naturally de- sired that his name be not used. Con- tinuing his remarks, he said
 'Desertions have been of more or less regular occurrence from both sides ever since the trouble com menced, but in the last few months this tendency has taken on an entire Fly different significance It is no longer the occasional whim or rest lessness of soldiers of fortune. but a movement that finds root in the same sort of feeling that comes over us after We have had our fill Of camp .ng trip or vacation oqting-we be- gin to want to get back. to work. This whole affair has been on the order of an outing With the masses in the army there is no real interest or patriotism in their presence in the ranks. 1t has been just a holiday ar engagement, with food supplies in the interim guaranteed. There are of
 course a few with really patriotic ideas but there are a far larger num- Der of agitators. The latter" work to keep the armies filled fer reasons of personal gain. They either see oD- portunity to get positions of profit later on or they are making hay while the sun shines and filling their pock- cts with blackmail and loot. l do not doubt but that you would be aston ished if the bankers of Bisbee, Doug- las. Nogales, Tucson and Fl Paao should tell you the real amount of money that has been brought to them from shrewd ones on both sides in the contest and placed on deposit against the readiness of the deposi- tors to come out of their country and enjoy themselves in retiTemtint. am advised that the lump sum will run into the millions of dollars.
 But tbe grass is getting short for these gentlemen. They have made away with about all there is to be made away with, and the game DO longer appeals to them. Some few still see further opportunities for fea- thering their nests, and I think that to these can ben attributed the recent Anti-Interventionalist movement, being A sort of agitstors last stand. I was unable to see that it stood show Of making much headway, for the peO- pie want to quit.
 As to business conditions. these are of course demoralized. In some sections of both Sonora and Sinaloa mining and farming are both going og but there is nevertheless the retarding circumstance of uneer taiutv as to what may cema next i will tell you this. however, am net alone in realizing that the end is not far ofi iD the depleted cous.rY. There are many others, and not c sev of them are in Mexico now. I met two