Show little known land in mexico Is ric rich h area on east coat coast of yucatan land of plenty mexico city the following description of tho the niest niost unknown anil he least developed yet et gnp aap of the alie richest parts of mexico the territory of quintana roo Is from the lie pen of american america consul 0 gaylord marsh perhaps few people in the progressive ambitious and industrially active centers centera or of civilization are aware awake of the exIst existence vice or 0 a large forge undeveloped territory af of about square miles along the eastern coast of the peninsula of yucatan a territory twice the size of the state of massachusetts practically without population almost as unknown as was darkest africa and possessing vast unexploited natural resources reference Is made to tile the mexican territory of quintana roo 1100 which lies iles almost in primeval solitude but COO miles south of new orleans 1500 miles south of new york cork and mexico city tills territory extends from tile the gulf of mexico on the north to british honduras and guatemala on the south it a distance of miles the capital of it Is santo santa cruz de dravo bravo which has about 2500 residents or it a little more than one fourth of the total population of the territory other towns and settlements containing the major portion of the remaining population 4 fire are bayo obispo and bacalar coast abounds in pame contrary to the general formation in the territory of quintana roo noo has several ridges of hills about nine lakes and a few shott short rivers flowing to lo the eastern coast this rugged coast Is washed by the treacherous currents of the gulf stream and the yucatan channel clinn nel Is a natural gateway for tile the postage of west weft indian hurricanes into the gulf of Af mexico exico the mexican government inning maintains ains about 12 lighthouses find and several wireless stations on tills lonely coast to assist la in the safe passage of ships which have not yet had motives for entering the ports of morelos vlola chico and payo pavo obispo information Is scanty as to tills this territory and generally lins has to he be gathered from the few persons extractors anti and prospectors who attack its brambly jungles and brave brae its ilot hot find and insalubrious climate from it few of these it Is gathered that in the west there aregrett are great green rolling pampas that the coast abounds in game and food fishes them the interior Is densely forested with valuable tropical woods and that the soil Is suitable for the production of corn sugar cane tobacco ilene quen tropical fruits and a number of other things only slight progress Pr oBress made tho the steam railway has not yet crossed the borders of this rich territory the siren of steamships has scarcely disturbed the quiet of its ita natt natural fral harbors an and donly only a month ago did the roar of the first american caterpillar tractor echo in the forests forest in competition with the pack mule the v writer alter after six years in yucatan has yet to meet the man who has completely crossed this territory although it Is understood tl that at a few have done so BO quintana roo now named from the yucatan statesman strite who saved save d it for a part af the mexican republic luis has many ruins of the once dice densely populated cities of the lost mayn indian kingdom it served as a rendezvous a cache and a prey of the buccaneers bucca find and pirates ot of tile se seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ond and for many years it was used by the mexican government its as a penal colony in 1001 the scanty population of was given a territorial form forin of government but only slight progress has been made and the territory with its primordial resources surrounded with a past romance and pregnant with a future value yet mutely beckons for an op port unIfy to share in the development ot of its near nef neighbors gli bors |