The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-06-03
Land Could Maintain 1OO,-
100000 People.
HAS $4,000 SQUARE MILES
Metals Valued at $5.000..
100000 Have Been Ia.
ken from Mines.
LITTLE LAND IN CULTIVATION
GA. G. Robinson in The American .
Reviews of Reviews.)

GA. G.. Robinson In The American
Reviews of Reviews.)
The economic resources and the
Industrial possibilities of the repub-
lie of Mexico are alike beyond meas
ure or estimate. Its 767, 900 square
miles, politically divided into twen-
ty-seven States. three Territories,
and one Federal district, now sus-
tain a. population of approximately
100000. Under conditions OF
no more than fair development. the
country could easily maintain 1907
100000 people.
From estimates and records, it
may be asserted that, up to the pres
emit. metals valued at not less than
$1,000 900, 900 have been taken
from Mexico's mines.
The general trend of the great
mining region lis from the northwest
to the southwest, covering an era of
approximately 1900 miles in length
sand about $50 miles in width
There can be no question that the
quantity thus far taken out,in all the
centuries of activity, is small in com
parison with what still remains.
= The yield of silpeT,-in recent eaHs'-
has averaged about $40,OOO,OOO a
year, and the output of gold about
s2O,OOO,OOO. The normal export of
mineral product is about 100000
600. This is little more than dou-
BILE the exports of ten years ago.
No exact figures or reliable esti-
mates are available. but Mexico
counts its livestock, its cattle,
horses, sheep, goats, and swine by
the million head. In recent years.
a notable improvement appears in
breeds. The grazing lands are
there, in many millions of acres.
easily capable of supporting many
times the number of cattle at any
time hitherto maintained.
1t has been estimated that Mexico
has not less than from 2O,OOO,0OO
to 25,0OO,O00 acres of first-class
timber. The hot and humid coast
strip affords mahogany and other
cabinet woods, dyewoods and gum
woods: and the higher attitudes
carry the oak and the pine, cedar,
cypress, poplar, ash, beech. walnut
and many others.
Only small part of Mexico's sur
face is under cultivation. The nat
tropical region, the coast strip and
its associated lowlands further in
land, are sugar, coffee. oranges, ba-
nanas cacao, pepper, vanilla, lines,
tobacco, henequen. rice cocoanuts,
and numerous others. Much of the
land suitable for these products is
now a dense jungle that would have
to be removed, as it has been else
where. to make cultivation possible.
The Jungle cleared away and the
land brought under treatment, the
urably improved.
As far as soil and climate are con-
cerned, Mexic6's lowlands may be
regarded as little short of ideal for
sugar production. The present total
sugar output of Mexico is about 1907
900 tons annually.
Coffee has been cultivated in Mex
leo for about a hundred years and
the present output ranges. from 75,-
0OO, 900 to 11O,00O.000 pounds a
year. In this industry ALSO is seen
the inefficient method Cultivation.
II is probable thntomas halere nee
essary. Mexico o relatives inlat least
half of thsr points. Fequire-
ment. -
The SCI and climate are thor
oughly ADAPTED to cotton production
throughout large part of the re-
public. A serious drawback is en-
countered In the boll-weevil, a pest
that has crossed the horde, to the
serious injury of cotton growers in
our own Southern States. There
are. however, extensive areas in
Northern Mexico where. under ir-