Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1925-04-17


ciety. Washington. d. CO
In token of renewed friendliness
Mexico is extending to the United
States not an olive branch, but stalk
of grass. Thousands of head of cattle
from regions in the southwestern part
of the United States that have suf-
fered from drought, are being sent
into Chihuahua and Sonora where
grass is luxuriant and where in some
localities the late Mexican revolutions
nearly wiped the native herds out OF
existence.
Largest of Mexican states and rich.
est in resources, Chihuahua has an
area about twice that of Pennsylvania
but population only two-thirds that
of Pittsburgh. Were its lands alIo.
Gated among it's citizens every five per
sons might have a square mile.
Such allotments would make many
qulntettes of owners fabulously rich
for a Croesus might envy the wealth
of some Chihuahua mines. Best
known of these is the historic Santa
Eulalia, IT miles southeast of Chihua-
hua City, discovered in 1903, but not
yet exhausted, from which have come
millions of dollars worth of silver
Many of the silver mines possess ores
of so, 60 and even rs per cent metal,
and there came from one Chihuahua
mine giant nugget of nearly SOC
pounds of almost pure silver.
Gold, lead, iron and copper also are
mined. Farming is a major industry
of Chihuahua, and it has been stimu-
lated by irrigation projects, though the
agricultural output has been estimated,
one-fourth as valuable as the minerals.
On the plains where grass is the chief
vegetation cattle-raising has always
been extensive. But the most recent,
and potentially one of the most valu-
able Industries of the state, is that
connected with the vast forests. Resin
and turpentine were derived from
some of the mountain timber
Four-fifths of Chihuahua consists of
undulating table-lands, for the most
:
offering extremes of temperature from
the bleak snowclad peaks in winter to
the oppressive heat of valleys in mid
summer. Rich In resources as is the
state, taken as whole, there are ex-
tensive arid, desertlike areas.
Traces Of the Apaches. once the
"cruelest and most treacherous race in
the world" are to be found in Chi
huahua, as are many cliff dwellings,
Aztec mounds and various other ruins,
which have not been studied The con
quest of these Apaches was one of the
most difficult tasks of the white mans
effort toward peaceful development.
Rich Mining Region.
No part of northern Mexico appears
any too inviting from the car windows
of the railways which enter the coun-
try from the United States, and this
aspect is as marked In Sonora as else
where. This sister state to Chihuahua,
lying next to the west, is the second
largest Of the Mexican states. and one
of the richest mining regions in the
world. But the desert hides Its best.
Far back in the opal-tinted hills are
green valleys and golden mines. The
stranger sees only the numb misery Of
the half-naked Indians. sheltering like
animals in the remains of 'dobe huts
that have been ruined in the fighting
of the past ten years.
The wide plains are empty of life.
The herds have gone to feed the revo-
buttons.
The change in plant and animal life
anti industries as you pass from Arr
Eona into Mexico Is very slight for the
first 200 miles or more. Had they not
searched your trunk at the custom
house. and maybe charged you duty on
that new camera. you might not have
realized that you had crossed from
tier. 1t Is only after you quit the high.
rolling grassy ranges of northern So
nora and strike the Yaqui valley be-
low Guaymas that a new world re-
veals itself, Here the bright, colorful
life Of the vast coastal plains begins.
The very richness of Sonora's min
eraI deposits and the fact that for gen
creations the Spaniards worked only
the mines. pausing neither TO sow nor
reap, tended to keep the country back.
In the Yaaui valley one American
corporation. originally organized BY
two far-seeing hnanciers. has already