El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-05


, The government knows that there
can be no permanent peace without q
movement toward division OF the
lands and congress is now trying lc
bring forth some scheme winch VIII re-
suit in such q division. one plan
I which is agitated is the restoration OF
the communal lands about the towns
to the indians who formerly owned
them And there are other plans 70
vine out the feudal system, which now
gives a few families this great land
monopoly and makes them the rullnS
aristocrats of the country The fight
OF the future Is to be between the
landIesS and the small landhOlderS and
the land monOpOlists, and il viii so on
in one form or another until Mexico
belongs to the many instead of to the
few.
Among the Land BarOns.
How would you like to have 5000
families own the whole United States.
Such q division would be somewhat
the same as that which exists in Mex
leo today. There are men here who
own millions Of acres Of farming and
grazing land, and who in addition
have mines, houses and gold galore.
The biggest landowner Of all is Don
Luis Terrazas of the state OF Chlhua-
hua. He and his immediate relatives
own outright over 100000 acres Of
the most fertile lands of northern Mex
leo. They keep it in big tracts and
the most of II is employed for stock
raising only. Terrazas brands $4,000
calves every year, and he has on his
place enormous drOVeS of horses and
mules and fOcks of sheep and goats.
He owns nearly all OF the land DeTW cen
Chihuahua City and the United States
boundary, and you may ride further
than from New York to Washington on
the railroad in crossing his farms from
north to south.
They are wider from east to west
than the distance between Baltimore
and New York, and indeed the bound
- IaTF hot
knows just where they end. The peO-
ME here say that Terrazas does not
know how much land he has and that
he could lose a thousand beef cattle
and not feel the loss. He is without
doubt the richest man in Mexico He
is worth something like 500, 100000,
and is the autocrat Of the state OF Chi
huahua-
Another man who has millions in
this same state is Enrique C Creel,
who was formerly the Mexican ambas-
sadOr at Washington. He is a soninlaW
Of Terrazas, but IS said TO be worth
about S20.OO0,O 600 in his own right,
much of it being in land and cattle.
Mr.. Creel was born in Chihuahua His
father was kentuckian' who came to
this country during the Mexican war
and later on settled here. He had a
family of seven, and Enrique c., the
eldest boy, was named after Henry
Greater Than Job.
Just across the border of Chihuahua
is the state of COahuila, where the Ma
dero family owns its vast estates,
which are now liable to confiscati- n.
and little to the southwark, in San
Luis POtOsi, is EncarnaciOn Ipina, who
holds more than 100, 900 acres. Ipina
has livestock which exceeds in number
many times that Of all the cattle cam
els and sheep owned by Job, the famed I
mOnOpOlist Of the Land of u, and ne /
also raises corn, wheat, beans and pO-
tatOes. Nevertheless, not One-twen-
tieth OF his lands are under cultivation, !
and his indian WOrkmen cannot buy {
an acre to hold in fee simple.
Another big owner in the same state /
IS Mrs Sarah H. De Lee. She has over
100000 acres, and of these she culti- I
Yates only $4,000
In the state If TlaNcaIa, which is [