Show MEXICO INVITES U UI 8 ENTERPRISE Americans in Forefront of In Intelligent Intelligent t and Profitable Development WEAR BADGE OF SUCCESS I ATTITUDE OF GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE FAVORS INVASION P O 0 Saunders of Mexico City Cit who is registered at the Kenyon hotel Is an old time friend of Parley L Williams having been raised with the te latter In Illinois many years ears ago aeo a o In the early GOs Mr Williams came cam west and Mr Saunders in n course of time migrated to Texas After that he went to Mexico where whore for forthe forthe the past twelve years rears he has made his home The two mep men are arc now renewing associations of their boyhood bo hood days das Mr Saunders has a high hl h of Mexico as a commercial field In discus discussing discussing sing ing the country countr last evening Mr lr Saunders Saunders Saunders ders said Mexico is a as good a country countr today as asit asit it ever was and that is saying a good deal I hardly know of a case of an nn American with a commercial education along some particular line and a small amount of capital going down there and falling failing to score a success The Th attitude of the government is favorable to foreigners especially Americans while the private citizens of or the country consider it almost in iii the light of an honor to have business relations with reputable men from the theland theland theland land of the stars and stripes Americans Prominent Americans of course are arc not slow in finding this out and today toda we have an American colony colon of about people in Mexico City alone and thousands more scattered about the republic The itself has a mixed population of perhaps FO so o you rou see there are enough of ofus ofus ofus us on hand to cut some little figure Mining of course forms a large part of the commercial activity of the Amer Americans mer leans and under their efficient general generalship generalship generalship ship the mines of the country countr are re responding responding responding well Mexico is rich in mineral wealth but it would have been years one might almost say centuries before the country could have hoped to attain any an thing like its present position in the min rain mining mining rainIng ing world had It not been for the intro introduction Introduction of American capital and Ameri Amen American can methods More than this the Amer Americans Americans leans themselves by their very personal personalities have accomplished things which capital could not have hoped single handed to have achieved a The American in Mexico wears the of success He is typical in the Mexican eyes of oC everything which goes to make for per ncr permanency stability and prosperity and to his credit it may be said that he has not abused the trust Big Profits in Sugar Second in importance to mining and perhaps equally popular with the resident American Is sugar suar su ar and coffee culture The sugar beet b et Is unknown in Mexico thus far the product being hein extracted from the sugar cane entirely While a large larse part of the available sugar su r land has been taken up there are still thousands of oC acres to be had rt ot t prices which are arc a amere 1 amere mere song Ten dollars an acre or r even less will procure sugar land of the very Yer I best quality There Is no such thing as replanting the crop All AH you JOU have hae to do dois doto doIs is to get in your first canes and then season by season watch them grow mw and I produce They require a good deal of attention at certain seasons of the year but labor is cheap heap and the profits under tinder capable management are arc enormous As a byproduct of the fugar rugar cane the drink known as takes taken a high place Your Mexican peon is a drink drinker er first and after that as circumstances will So great Is the demand for in certain sections of o the coun cOlln country country try that some plantation owners have dis dispensed dispensed dispensed with the making of oC sugar en entirely entirely content to take their profits from the sale of or the liquor alone An Inviting Field Fild The better class of Mexicans are arc well wen educated Cultured and entertaining chi chiv chivalrous and with a high sense of business Integrity justice and fair play pla Mexico Is a n great country and Mex ico will probably be greater reater It is agree agreeable a agreeable ree able to live in well w ll governed and pros prosperous prosperous prosperous offering opportunities to foreign capital such as I believe are unsurpassed sed anywhere Of all the foreigners and there are arc many the American undoubted ly ranks first As evidence of ot this it may be saul said that more of the rising gen generation generation are being sent here to be educated than ever before in the history of the country and the number is doubling year by b year e r |