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Show BACK FROM MEXICO Aquilla Neboker Is Home From a Prolonged Visit. Aquilla Nobokor. who recently returned from n prolonged stay In Old Mexico, has been stopping In Salt Lako tho past two days. Mr Kobeker has been looking after af-ter tho development of a largo tract of Umber 'land In tho Southorn republic, which belongs to him and a number of business associates. Tho ground covers an area of some 200,000 acres and contains con-tains largo quantities and varieties of timber, with pine and oak predominating. predominat-ing. A traction road is being built u distance dis-tance of thirty-two miles to connect with the Mexican Central railway und which road will use large consignments of timber tim-ber from this tract for railroad tics. On thtec traction roads Mr. Nebeker says wonderfully largo tonnages of freight can be transported cheaply and with rapidity. The land is also cut by a river, down which logs can be taken, and its owners are looking for an opportunity to furnish fur-nish large quantities of timber In tho construction of the Panama, canal. |