The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-28
AMERICAN INVESTORS WARNED TO
 EXAMINE MEXICAN LAND TRACTS
Those Who Have Failed To Take This Precaution Have Often Fallen Victims to Rogues Who Sell Arid Land Sight Unseen.

come in the summer and fall months, even the bleak mountainsides become green with verdure, and this condi- ton continues for some time in sec- ions which at other periods of the year are dry and unattractive. Per sons coming to Me11oo after the rains could be deceived easily as to cors1i- tions, especially if they are not ex- perienced farmers.
 These tracts which grow green after the rains are endless. Persons touring Mexico in automobiles pass through such land for days, seeing only occasional haciendas or farm houses where there are springs or wells or dams holding in storage the water flowing from the hills after rains.
 These immense tracts are suitable for catt1e-raising, but a person buy ing land that has not been improved would find 1t necessary to go to con- siderable expense in providing water for cattle. This can be done by building dams to hold rain water, but the buyer must be certain thas his land contains 8. suitable location for dam. Buyers Of small tracts who do not take the trouble to examine Jhe property before purchased it might not find 1t possible even to store water in this way.
 Must Store Water Farming operations would call for the storage Of water on a large scale. This would necessisate the employing of engineers to study tine land and de- wise ways of storing the water in such way that 1t could be used for drriga-- ton. The average man could not jump in and build a dam which would hold enough water to supply the needs of Q farm.
 It Is not hard for a promoter to get hold of 50,0o0 or 100000 acres of land which. under present conditions, is an elephant on the hands of the owner. And land of that sort Is the kind that is being offered for cale in the United Staates in many cases. This has resulted in many complaints. There is good land In every state 1 in Mexico. wih natural 1ocations for 1 irrigation dams which would supply | large tracts. Some sleh dams have been completed, others have been started. and still others are under | consideration. One of the largest pose Of storing water for irrigation, is in Mexico. It is in the state of land is not being given away for a eye to making money. are studying the possibility of getting some of the water from the dam for the irrigation 1 Of land 40 or 50 miles away. Even away.
 Conditions In Mexico Conditions in Mexico are not as they were in the United States when
 
 homestead to anyone who would put 1 a blow into the ground. The good | land which Is offered to foreigners Is | to be sold, and the men who arc doing l the selling know clearly the present value of the land and its probable fu- lure value.
 1 Any bargain that Is offered calls for close scrutiny, for there are few bar gain sales in Mexico, The prsce ot land is lower than in the United 1 Sta4es because markets arc fewer transportation undeveloped and gen. era1 conditions not so much to the l advantage of the farmer as on the tions were dhe same in MeNfco as ir the United States land would be just as high
 Another indication that there are no great expanses of vacant, owner less, tllable land in Mexico, such as All ere were dn the United States when farms were given away or sold fol Mexican government, in its efforts tc give farms to the landless poor, it compelled to take possession of large estates and divide them among tho needy. finding no other way.
 The American coming here mus; either buy improved land. which is held nearly always at dhe highesi price that existing conditions permit or take uniraproved land at e lower price. The improved land is usually convenient to the railroads giving tho farmer access to the markets that e1isi. The untnaproved land is re- mote from the railroads, and the i his products to the points at which transportation ts offered, while wai5- l fng for the building of more rail- roads.