Evening star., 1923-10-11
new WMEX|COSTATE
CENTER0F REVOLT
Nayarit So Recently Added
That Maps Fail to Show 1t.
Once Was Topic.

''The state of Nayarit, Mexico
a band OF agrarians and Mexican
troops. will be looked for in vain If
one depends on maps or reference
books printed more than six years
ago." says a bulletin from the local
headquarters of the National Geo
graphic Society.
"This tropical, Pacific coast region
of Mexico was until a few years ago
the Territory of Tepic." continues the
bulletin. But Mexico, like the
United States. has been steadily re-
and old Topic. rich in memories of
the Spanish regime, was the latest to
undergo the transformation. When
it was advanced in 1917 to the status
of statehood it took as its name that
of the Nayarit mountains. which ex-
tend into the region from the north" "
Mexico's Longest River.
In communication to the society,
Herbert Corey. who recently travelled
through Nayarit. describes IS follows
the valley of the Santiago. Mexico's S
longest river, the leading agricul-
tural section of the new state:
"One does not often hear of the
in Ysr Mrxsa and KD Egs it a is the the
state of Morelos, it flows through
Lake Chapala and on to the sea near
San Bias. Cortez sailed 1t for some
distance with his little barks. At
intervals it roars through barrancas
low the level of the surrounding
plain, and in which the Indian farm
ers find a fuper-tropic climate that
forces vegetation as might an equa-
torial hothouse.> During the rainy
season the river spreads twenty-five
miles wide through the fiat. Jungle
grown lower lands.
1T runs through farming land that
could feed two or three of our own
states, if the farmers were only given
PEELED at the muzZle" of rifles to drop
II n'ow and be patriotas every little
while.
Wild Fruit Rots.,
This land would grow any sort of
Il tropical crop if it were given a
chance. One can in season ride
through miles of wild lines and
lemons rotting on the ground. The,
thought of cultivat!ng oranges has
never yet come to the peon. II has
not even occurred to him to fight the
black scale or whatever other enemy
may attack the tree. The cocorito
palm is responsible for Il local soap
making monopoly. for its kernels are
65 per cent oil.
There are fields of sugarcane, and
bananas flourish wherever planted.
The best coffee in the world--at least
us good coffee as there is in the
world-comes from this district. Rice
and tobacco end dates and figs grow
almost without attention In the bar
rancas the vanilla bean is found.
Through N9yarit, from it's ancient
p cific port of San Bias, run the re-
r'1-ins of the old Spanish road east
ward to Mexico City and down
Ci AZ on the Atlantic. Thanks to the
road the esst-bound conveys from
the Philippines were sp"red the
perilouS traverse around Cape Horn.
""rhe main highway was defended
by forts or by minor outposts at
strategic points and from it lesser
trails were driven into the hills or
the more inviting valleys. for the
convenience ofEprieSt and miner
Not untif ~Po-~ffrfo -Diaz began to
build-the net of Mexican railroads did
the road begin to foil into disuse,
and even today there are wide
stretches of country which can only
be reached by it. In these back
blocks one sees the Mexico that APP
peared to the eyes of Boron Hum
toldt and Nine. Calderon de la Barca."