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Show MEXICO AM) HOKHOvj." A -Giti interesting and carefully prepared letter on the prognasof Mexico in trade, mining and manufacturing, manu-facturing, appears in the Boston Uerald from the City of Mexico and signed F. R. Guernsey. Ho dwells chiefly on the development of Sinaloa, where large numbers of VniTicans have gone into busincsa as miner", smelters, timber cutter" sugar makers, etc. The annual yield of the mines In that state, remote as it Is from rail road connection, averages close on to 7,0M,O3J annual!). Three cotton mills produce yearly 5D,0M nieces 27 metres each ill length. Three mlllsyleld 2,0jj,0JD pounds of sugar per year. The hencquen plant, or sisal grass, is cultivated and the fibre manufactured nud exported, ex-ported, theremovalofthadutvupon it by the McKlnley bill stimulating this branch of minuJacture and trade. The writerdissoun-j iute'.IIgently on the protection doctrine anl its workings, gives tariff- figures in II-lustration II-lustration of the subject, anl draws conclusions strongly favorable to free trade. Incilentally he mentions men-tions the growth of the State of Chihuahua and pays the following tnoute to our rnen Is there, vt hlch was the point that chiefly attracted ourattention to bU article: "Tha Mormoa colonists In Chihna-haa Chihna-haa are, I am lold, gsUIngoa cll, aDUqaietly minding thsir own business, busi-ness, as wellas Improving tho.ljvm lauds, transforming ths wilaernais into a garden. Thesalndastnoas people peo-ple give tho government no trouble, and are among tha bjs; co'oalst who have come to Mexico. Their policy Is to work and mike no talk." These are good words and true, and speak well for the ".Mormons" In Mexico aad tho fairness of the Boston Jlerald correspondent. |