Arizona republican., 1922-03-24

TRPIC. Nayarit. Mexico, March %.
Some one asked me the other day
if had ever heard OF the Calzado de
I.ozano. OF course never had. did
not even know that the words mean
"The Pavement of Lozano" until they
were interpreted to me.
SO iolted out--a matter of twenty
miles or so upon the wholly, stupen-
dously. magnificently incredible Qua
dalajara road-to see Senior Lozano
his pavement 1T was a picturesque
bit of roadway. The great road which
once connected Tepic with Madrid
and Rome and the rest of the world
that really counts made a hairpin
kinl1 here as il climbed a steep mn.
At the foot a pleasant little brook
brawled. it's blue waters-they are
really a soapy blue-glimmering In
the sunlight. Great forest trees arch
over it. Here and there grim crosses
may be described, the tribute paid by
the kindly Mexican to the souls OF
those who have departed this life at
the spot marked. The skull size
stones o. the Pavement are still IN
place. and the road by comparison Is
good. Maybe there is a local feeling
for the old mark.
Was Very Successful Bandit
I.ozano was once a bandit in q
small way in Nayarit. A sort Of a
iourneyman bandit, so to speak. He
went out at stated intervals with his
merry men and did a little banditing
until he had worked up reputation
for careful, conscientious, and mur-
derous robbery. 1t always pays to do
ones work we'll. as the copybook says.
BY and by the class displayed by
I.ozano in his stick-ups attracted the
attention of the Baron Ford company.
The Baron Ford company, so say the
residents of Tepic. was British con-
Germ that once did large wholesale
and retail business in merchandise.
The state of Nayarit was then pros
perous. 1t would be yet if il had
been given fair chance. But the
Baron Ford company had an active
competitor who was cutting mater
tally into the Baron Ford profits. SO,
according to the residents. the Baron
Ford company approached Senior
Lozano.
Co. said the Baron Ford company,
in Scriptural language, 'go thou and
stick up the mule trains of our COM
petitor. SO shall our days be pros
porous and our nights more fun OF
rest. And thou shalt have fair
share of what thou dost swipe."
1t seemed an eminently fair propo-
sition to Lozano and for a time he
labored diligently in his vocation,
robbing the competitors mule trains
and honestly turning in the Baron
Ford eompany's share. Then. one day,
it occurred to him that he was rather
foolish in giving anything whatever
to the Baron Ford company, mas
fesl-
and did not protect him. From this
it was but a step to holding up the
mule trains Of the Baron Ford COM
pany also as they came over the long
road from Guadalajara.
So did he prosper and wax fat in
the land, until one day he was
crowned king of Nayarit on the
stretch of roadway which has ever
since been known as the Pavement
of I.ozano." He bought him nice
house in Tepic-diagtnally opposite
from the casa in W hich the Eendar
merle is now located-and the story
| forgets to tell what happened to him
later. Doubtless he died, as all Mex
lean bandits die, except those who
reform. in an odor of gunpowder
But the story is insistent on the point
! that he was crowned king with 2
4 heavy gold crown.
Nyarit Rich AgricuIEuraly
The significance Of this story IS
| that Nyarit had ever since-unti
/ very lately-been operated on the
| Baron Ford plan with Lozano en-
/ broidery. There is no richer state ir
/ the world, perhaps. than this com
paratively small corner Of Mexico
/ No one knows how rich it is. as 9
matter of fact. Every sort Of crOI
] one can imagine OF the tropic. sub
tropic. and temperate zones can bC
] and is raised somewhere in Nayarit
/ one has but to vary the elevation tC
find the precise location adapted Il