Mohave County miner., 1914-04-11
Rosalia in Limelieht.

the national capltal, statesman, pOlltlc- ian or layman, who has followed the development in Mexico for the past month, has been in doubt whether the shadow of big business has hung over the warridden republic south of the Rio Grande, all such doubts, real or pretendsd, must have been dispelled by the latest move in Mexican affairs made by France.
 To the casual newspaper reader the announcement of this latest angel to the Mexican embrolio may mean but little as it appeared in public print. It consisted of bare announcement of tho arrival at Guaymas, in the Gulf of California, of the French cruiser, "Montcalm" en route to Santa Rosalia, on the eastern shore of the peninsula of Lower California. This ne ws reach ed Washington as brief official re- port to the navy department by Con- mander Taylor in com mand of the navy transport, Buffalo, at present lying in the harbor of Guaymas.
 In official circles, however, the ar rival on the west coast of Mexico ot French cruiser created a stir, for 1t meant that the house of Rothschild has reached out ltf hand and purposes to have something to say about con- dltions in north western Mexico. To everyone in Mexico, who is acquainted with the republics industrial life, the very name of Santa Rosalia is synono- nous with Rothschild, but the law makers and government officials of the present decade hardly know the extent of the monopoly which this great banking house, operating under the name of La Compagnie Du Boleo," has enjoyed since 1883.
 Receiving its concessions under the Diaz regime it was exempt until De- cember 1912, from all federal and local taxes, except a stamp tax, and 1t con- tinues to be exempt from all customs duties and local assessments until 1912; also from all export and import duties on the fuel consumed. But above all the concern enJoys exemption from labor troubles or unrest, both of skill ed and unskilled men, as under the terms of it's concession all its employees are freed from all military and civil service.
 The principal business of the Com pagnle Du Bolso is the production of copper. But in order to make it's con- cession exclusive, the company engages in practically every line of industry that goes to make up the life of town of 1000 people, which was the popula- ton of Santa Rosalia in 1912. In that same year. by the way, the value of Santa Rosalia's imports was l., ,593, ,S4S$, and of the exports $500, 743$, the lat ter, of course, being largely made up of products of the copper mines.
 The town of Santa Rosalia IS built on land owned by the company, being part of this grant of 10000 hectares, (or in American measurement 49, 100 acres,) This huge grant of mining and industrial land is in addition to an additional one of grazing land winch measures up 1920 hectares or 29,442 acres. Under the sweeping terms of the concession granted to the Boleo people it has been so completely Tn control of that of Lower California in which it has carried on it's operations, as to make it's territory almost a king dom, with Rothschild resident mana ger as it's Sovereign" In addition to owning the land of it's seaport, it owns also the water front and warfage, and it has only been since 1909 that any one was allowed to land at Santa Rosa lia without permit issued by an agent of the Boleo company at Guay- mas. Up to that time the company owned the only steamer that piled be- tween tho two posts. But on July I, 1909, concession was granted com. pany owning fleet of small coa,ting steamers, the Compania Naviera del Pacifico of Guaymas, giving the boats the right to call at Santa Rosaia.
 During all tho upheavals and at tempted upheavals, the Rothschlds' property has never been disturbed. no matter what faction was brandishing the torch upon the mainland of north. T. l. La