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Show Mexico's Richest Man. General Louis Tcrrazas is Mexico's wealthiest man. says tho Kansas City Star. General Tcrrazas Is 79 years old, the samo age as President Diaz, The lives of both men have been full of stirring stir-ring adventure. It was in reward for daring military service that General Tcrrazas Tcr-razas obtained from the government large gifts of land which placed him upon the road to the great fortune which he now possesses. It Is conservatively estimated that General Gen-eral Tcrrazas is worth not less than $200.-000.000. $200.-000.000. His property holdings are chiefly in the state of Chihuahua, but ho also has largo Investments In other parts of tho republic. General Tcrrazas Is tho greatest land and livestock baron lu the world. It Is said. He owns fifteen ranches in the state of Chihuahua. The ranches embrace em-brace an aggregate area of more than 5,000,000 acres. For many years special attention has been given to ralslnpr horses upon these ranches. More than 6,000.000 head of horses arc grazing upon the Tcrrazas Tcr-razas land. The mule supply for most of Mexico comes from tho Tcrrazas ranches. These animals now number more than 1,000000 head and arc scattered over tho different differ-ent properties. General Terrazas's cattle holdings number moro than 1.000.000 head. Several hundred thousand head of goats and sheep graze upon his land. It Is said that tho choicest grass lands In northern Mexico aro embraced In the Tcrrazas estate. Streams of running water pass through them and the grass grows luxuriantly the greater part of the year. Some idea of the vastness of theso landed land-ed possessions may be had when It Is known that more than 10,000 men arc kept constantly looklntr after the livestock The services of 1000 men aro required to "rldo the fences." It Is the duty of these fence riders to see that tho wires aro kept Intact, so that the livestock cannot escape from the pastures, Many thousands thou-sands miles of wire were used in constructing con-structing the boundary fences. More than a score of towns, some of them of considerable con-siderable size, are upon the ranches. |