Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-06-21

stimulated by irrigation projects,
though the agricultural output has
been estimated, under normal con-
ditions, to be only ~one-fourth as val
liable as the minerals.
Cattle-raising is extensive. But the
most recent, and potentially II OF
the most valuable industries of the
state. is hat connected with the vast
forests. Resin and turpentine were
derived from some Of the mountain
timber.
''Four-ffths of Chihuahua consists
of undulatihg t~able-lands, for the
most part thousands of feet above
sea level, offering extremes of tenn
perature the bleak snow-clad peaks
in winter to the oppressive heat of
valleys in midsummer. Rich in re-
sources as is the State, taken as a
whole, there are broad arid, desert
like areas.
"In Chihuahua grows the agave.
natures W antidote for snake
bites, deadly also to the reptile which
tastes it's juice. The curious Chi
huahua dog. if his pedigree can be
verified, is almost worth his weight
in gold. These tiny, sickly, rat
sized CANNES have been compared
to the sleeve dogs of China. A but
Iterf1y-dog' of highest degree should
weigh less than two pounds.
AT Guanajuato is the Bastillo of
Mexico, the Alhongiga de Grandaltas,
once q grain market, later a prison,
where the head of hida.so was dis
played on a spike for q deca1e as
a warning to other revolutionists.
Through Hidalgo was executed (two
years before his trial was concluded,
Incidentally and his army dispers-
ed, he is known as the author of
Mexican liberty" He rang Mexico's
liberty bell on his church at Dolores
in 1910, sounding the tocs!n of the
future freedom and long era of pros
perity, interrupted by disturbances
of the last few years.
Traces of the Apaches, once the
'cruelest and most t~reacherous race
in the world are to be found in Chi
huahua, as are many cliff dwellings,
Aztec mounds and various other
ruins, which have not been studied.
The conquest of these Apaches was
one of the most difficult tasks of the
white mans effort toward peaceful
development of Mexico. The poetic
ally inclined may conclude that ma
ture, as well as the natives, helped
Chihuahua inhospitable. For many
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serts, are thorny and prickly. Es-
pecially is this true of the prolific
cactus. Moreover, one writer COM
tments, The mountain ridges present
the most singular SUBMITS terminal
ing in pyrimidal points, or resemb-
ling towers or minarets.'
Near Santa Rosalia, famous for
its mineral waters, reputed to be
helpful for treatment of rheuma-
tism, are ruins of the fort taken by
American troops which marched
through Chihuahua in 1S49 to joir
General Zachary Taylor"
IN all the world one cannot fine
a more remarkable capital thar
Mexico City" says William JOSEPH
Showalter, in a communication tt
the National Geographic Society
concerning an interest center of tht
present Mexican revolution.
Situated in a valley whose foo
is a mile and a half above the leve
of the sea, and whose borders arr
surrounded by towering mountains
located where the beautiful vol
canoes, ~Popocatepetl and Ixtacci
huatl, real their snow-capped head
above the plain and stand eterna
guard over it, it's situation is n o
rare beauty and grandeur. Its eli
mate is mild, the temperature rang
ing from IS to 10 degrees. with
mean of G5 degrees. No man sleep
without a blanket in Mexico City, no
needs an overcoat at midday.
prior to the conquest the lake
of the Mexican Valley were extensiv'
land the barges of the Aztecs saile'
uninterruptedly from the gates o
lChapultepec to Ixtapalapa. A larg
humber of canals intersected the an
Tcient metropolis of Tenochtitlan an
connected with the lakes in the sub
urbs, making it a sort of new worl'
Venice.
I'm 1907 the celebrated Portu
lguese engineer Martinez undertook
to drain the Valley of Mexico by cut
ting a canal through the mountains
The work, however, was largely
failure. since it drained only on
small lake and an unimportant river
leaving lakes Texcoco and Chaic
still perpetual menaces to the city.
"In 1879 q huge drairRse cana
, thirty miles long was beaHn, whic
was completed in 1900, at a cost o
about $4,000, 900, American gold. II
completion removed the danger o
foundations from Mexico City an
solved the problem which oecupie'
! the thoughts and engendered tn
fears of the Aztecs as far back a
! 1449.
Mexico City is the most complet
mixture of the ancient and h mod
ern to be found in the New World
1.-THE old city might date anywher
from the tenth century. from its ap
pearance. The new city is ultr'
modern, and you step from the Sax
lteenth to the twentieth century b