Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-04-21
ENJOYS TRIP
INTO MEXICO
DIR. CARRIER TELLS ABOUT
CONDITIONS SOUTH
OF u. S.

Presbyterian church in this city, later
president of Carroll college and dur
ing the war in religious work overseas
This time Dr. Carrier has written a
letter chuck full of facts about Mexico
Tucson, Arizona,
April 18th, 1921
To the Editor of The Pilot:
1t is always a great pleasure to me
when the "Pilot| makes it weekly APP
pearance in my home here, where
am spending the winter and until June
| list in Tucson, Arizona.
| have just returned from a. weeks
trip in Mexico and am glad to share
with you some impressions, that are
of great interest to myself. The
President of the Southern Pacific
Railway of Mexico very generously in
yited me to take this trip, and, going
south seventy miles to the borderland
city of Nogales, | arranged through
the American immigration Bureau and
| the Mexican Consul for a ten days
trip permit. The passport for year
into that country now costs ten dol
lars on each ride, but a trip permit Is
secured for $500 and that goes to the
Mexican government.
Taking a train from Nogales early
in the morning | rode all day, reach
ing the city of Guaymas in the even
ing. Here is a. most wonderful noun
tain-locked harbor. have never seen
anything more beautiful, where the
mountains seem to rise up &C islands
out of the sea or, rather the wateI'
has come up and flowed into the val
leys, so that the largest ocean steam
ers come in there The city has been
place of some twenty thousand, but,
owing to the revolutions and the dis
turbed political and business rela-
tons, there are probably not more
than a third that many people living
there at the present time. The hotels
are very much run down and only
men seem to be travelling there to
any extent at present. AS you may
know, the whole banking system of
Mexico was practically wrecked and
IN this city are three splendid bank
buildings that would be credit to
Wausau. but they are closed and in
some places the glass has been broken
out of the windows.
The train passes through hundreds
of thousands of acres of fairly good
grazing land that Is totally unoccu-
pied because the ranch men fear the
uprising of the YaQui Indians who
are very much grieved against the
government for concessions they have
made to commercial companies, in
volving what they claim as their own
rights. Up until seven months ago,
all the trains that passed through this
section had an armored car on the
front and another on The rear With
Mexican soldiers to project the trains
against the assaults of the Indians.
At the present time. things are much
more peaceful and the Indians are
being taken care of by the govern
meut aud 1t Is hoped that peace will |
continue. Obre CON is dong everything |
in his power u bring about peace |
throughout the country and to har
monte the business Interests, and is
succeeding wonderfully WELL
| took the day train from Guaymas, |
reaching San Blac in the evening In
'his way we passed through many |
indian villages and Mexican villages |
where the people live in the most
primitive way. Due to the waria I
Weather. they need little housing and |
hey seem to become very indolep5. |
The difference in many places between |
ONE of these Mexican villages and |
oar own country IS that 5etweeL
hristian civilization and organism |
Yet the government is developing the |
schools and II is hoped that these peo-
PIE will be lifted 70 better social, poll |
tTal ana religious ideals
The trains stop frequently at sta
fnno ~ axsnryhAdx- In,
seems TO come down to the depot and /
enjoy the excitement The trains stop |
fifteen or twenty minutes aud half the (
people are selling things to eat. You
have TO buy your meals and live as
YOU would not care to if you were at |
home, but everybody seems good MAJ /
.ured
There is quite little irrigation |
along the river beds and If the system I
IF irrigation can be developed under /
the government. there are great agri- I
cultural prospects Tor this western
portion of Mexico. On every train |
YOU meet prospectors that claim great |
possibilities in mining interests in
Mexico
Most of the trains running over the I
Southern Pacific are so-ealled mixed |
trains which include freight. first and |
second class passenger and Pullman |
cars. all drawn by the same engine. |
About two-thirds of the passenger |
coaches are marked second class"
In these they ride TOR half the fare of
first class. The seats in these second
class cars have no backs, ends or
cushions. and you can carry most any
thing in the way of baggage, 4 roos-
ter dog. or a bundle of clothing.
There are being shipped at the pre-
sent time over thirty carloads of to-
matoes day from Mexico into the
United States. All tropic fruit may
be raised in great abundance in wes-
tern Mexico but there is need of scien-
ti6c agriculture there. At the present
time no attention is given to those
modern methods of fruit raising and
cultivation. The language spoken is.
of course, Spanish among the Mex
leans and the Indian dialect among
the more than three million Indians.
There are great possibilities IL
stable government can be established