El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-17
Ell PASO SHOULD BE CENTER
FOR LARGE STEEL INDUSTRY,
WRITER ON MEXICO DECLARES

b. fair shane. with some exceptions, and
those in the vicinity OF Mexico city
are in excellent shape. The worst
destruction was on the Mexico North
Western, which road VIII not be In
] operation for perhaps some y months.
There was a stretch OF some 800 miles
Of railroad on the old Mexican Cen
{ trail from villa Ahumada 10 south Of
I Jiminez, which was destroyed by
FOrozco- His way o. destroying rail-
] way was spectacular as well as e.
I and cables IN rolling the track up and
pulling Il after the locomotive Ike
l a cyllndricsl snowfall Of wood and
Z steel over this same stretch OF road
T all OF the railway stations were de-
1 stroyed except those at the larger
[ cities. and we found some railway
{ stations DESTROYED in the vicinity OF
3 Mexico City. The road from Jtminez
] stroyed- But these have been re-
built and are now IN operation
Good Street Car system-
Of MeLico'E public utilities and
Z larger industries the article says:
Mexico city and Guadalajara have
furnished with power from hydro
electric stations owned BY the Pear
son syndicate Of England. The serv-
ice IS much better than IN most Of
our American cities. There Is prob
ably no better street railway system
In all the other cities we visited the
street railway service was Inadequate I
Mexico CITY and Guadala5ara both I
have modern water systems. built !
during the revolution, and they com |
pare favorably with any on the con-
Enent- Most Of the smaller towns Z
visited have ancient aQueductE. many 1
OF them dating from the time OF I
Mexico city. Guadalajara, Chihua-
hua, san Luis Potosi and Saltillo have /
Immodern sewer systems but most OF 1
the other towns we visited were lack l
ing IN this important sanitary re-
Quirement-
Mining Activity Resumed.
THE mining industry IS resuming 4
Operations IN an the principal mining I
camps but the cry everywhere IS for
cars IN which 20 transport the ore.
In the rich Parral mining district We
found a number Of American engi-
for resumption Of operation on a large
scale. The famous Cerro Mercado, or
Mountain Of Iron, near the city OF
Durango was being surveyed for de-
velopment by an American syndicate.
Practically all OF the ores used by the
state Of Durango. The mineral re-
sources Of Mexico are perhaps the
richest IN the world, having very
large deposits Of petroleum silver,
OF the architecture and foreign
buying, Mr. Barglebaugh says.
The architecture Of the principal
Mexican cities Is largely modelled
after that OF European cities, rather
than after that IN this country. There
IS very little construction work going
on az present and the housing situa-
ton IS about as acute in Mexico City
and Guadalai lara as in our larger
cities GuadalaJara IS a city OF about
100000 people and Mexico City has
a population Of from 100000 to
100000.
American Goods Preferred.
a very large portion OF all the
goods we saw in the show windows
OF Mexico was American. there being
some French goods and some made
in England. but practically no German
goods. This was, Of course, partly
accounted for by the lack Of trans
portation facilities during the war,
but particularly because the Mexican
would rather trade with the Ameri-
can business man than with the
European, even though we do not
treat him with the same considera-
ton that the European dOes-and II
American business interests will TO
some extent follow the customs Of
Mexico we can continue TO supply
Mexico with practically all Of its
goods"