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Show SOMETIME, PERHAPS. "When the roving bandits in the state are suppressed and mines and farms can be worked in safety, thero will be unusual demands for mining machinery and supplies, agricultural implements, hardware, railway equipment equip-ment and supplies, etc., as it is the general gen-eral belief that the Chihuahua mining camps will then enter upon a period of prosperity such as they never beforo experienced." ex-perienced." This is the view of United States Consul James B. Stewart, located at the city of Chihuahua. It would not be wise for American merchants and manufacturers to bank on Mexican trade at any time in the near future. Recent dispatches, show that Francisco Villa is still a power in the northern part of the country and that the Car-ranza Car-ranza government is not likely to kill or capture the most notorious bandit of the age. Doubtless tho Mexicans would make large purchases in the United States if peaco and quiet should reign, and it is also highly probable that they would become prosperous in a very short time if allowed to do business. But so long as Villa lives and remains at. large there will be no improvement in Chihuahua or any of the other northern north-ern states. |