Show r ph j MEXICO iY IN goi A f Land Without Strikes Where Wages ate arc Cents Cenis a Da Day a r I II iA Ohl O c 1904 e cans cans in ur Mexico and What They arc Doing I m m mm w I r V r Ii 1 5 IL r c How Have aw Produced Four Million Dollars in ill Gold cold and Silver Fifty Miles Long LOll President Diaz Dia not nol to Retire II and fie Ille Panama lamina Canal and lime Ille Sentiment What our to 10 tot t Mexico co Says SOlS About bofil el that and its lis Prospects a r r I fel I I i H ji H H jH H H HH i I 1 f r XI XII XIt I A I I t u r a aur w ed t ur urr 1 A rA r r t r r 1 Y Io y y yf y yI I 1 f 1 y f X r 3 f y t I t ts I II I X XI s i r I I H iF M HH HI t POWELL CLAYTON CLA United States Statu Ambassador to Mexico I I Special Correspondence ot of 0 the Desert MUM N w by y Frank G Carpenter I i I al t 1 D 0 CI I met Gen Powell Clayton Claylon our I ambassador to Mexico whon when ho lio WILli In III Washington II a af f f short time mo ngo n o Jon Gen Clayton f Is In now flow TO jO your year of oC age but ho Ill does docI no not look GO CO and no 10 of or the wear and anil tour tear of ot public life Ilfe Still ho III has been b n In the thick of ot things for tor more than thal half n II ae e reat century ury He lie routes ramIs n family t of oC f statesmen The Clayton began to do things In hl the United Slate Platen more than Ihan thant t f ISO yearn ago and they have kept 1 pret pretty prett t ty I well to the rant front over wel Joshua Io hul Clayton sumo canto to America with William Penn Ienn mid and John Johns M I Clayton the tho seers Roero tal y of or mute who made the Clayton Claytn treaty Ireat wort Willi his lili grandson 1 Powell Clayton carne romR n from tho the same fa branch of oC tho the family He was lIas horn born In III Pennsylvania went W to school nt lit Wll I r Del 1 el and Ilk GeorgI Georg Wash InKton started Blurted life liCe nn n n 1 civil engineer Washington got irot 5 3 n a day dllY for Cur forth lIr th the wilds of or Virginia for lor Lord Fairfax Powell Clayton sot got JB I G a mile milA for tor sur Hur surveying public lands landt In III In the thO days Just JUMI preceding the Iho war Will It was his Job ns liS u n surveyor that tool took him to tl the went lie Ill was vas thorn when the war WOI broke out He lie the tho Union army nail and In inn the service until ilK close lo II 11 started In ax nil n II captain and anil come ClimE out nut a 1 handler general After Arter the thi war hi he bought a 1 plantation In III settled there ther and We Willi governor of the stilt 1 HP Ill held he hi this po during tho the exciting period of or when h he fought u I bottle battle III 0 royal against the Iu hu Klux clan ik III wa was elected to tilt the United Staten senate from and after that to 10 building tho the railroad For the post pant seven years Gen Gln Clayton CIrton has bt been blen en ambassador front from the States fl s to Mexico lie He was wan nH appointed il by h President and says ay that he will close MB hla term erm At nit the end of or the present administration During our OUI conversation I him J I how ho he ha liked the position of ot dor He lie replied The Tho In is I a I pleasant one although It tarries carries man responsibilities res c s an on I Ian an nillo n the of oC e f dale g s some 0 mEl me Foil gov Ir I 1 t however hO cr that that I 1 have hud had it t lon long enough and I run nun ready rall to la retie It won my ray mention to have dosed 1 my ny public life lICe at nt TO iO 0 hut but u 1 I shall remain reman r un rn until until til the end of or this thU and retire r at nt iZ 2 What will you do then general I 1 I dont know but I r I will da tb tinn t t most moat old nId men m rt n do that la Iq lend lead a n I quiet life liCe my ey friend friends My I children wAnt avant me m to my m for Co I them I have Iwen leen I en saving Having material Mil all II my III life lICe and It Is U pOI poa ibio I r may maydo Inn do that MEXICO IN 1001 l t What Is the condition of ot Mexico to today today day general It l Is 18 In an 11 excellent condition condition Tho The people are arc prosperous pro PCP 11 II anti the country li II l on n a good cubit basin balls Times are arc good although II thou h not so eu good per perhaps er haps as here DOM Does the country grow gro much from Crom fromy y nr to t Mexico ien has hall ha a n steady natural replied red rede lei Ion Clayton Its population In Is l e now ami nn It In li Increasing at mil the rate of ot a million every over lr nave live e years A great majority oese of oC f fe the people are ore native motive e Mexican x tan Including InK ing I those descended from the i h nail Indians There Is In no such Immigration gra grat tion t frown from as ns to the Ihl United H tee The rue labor conditions there thele ate aie different lIt and the who como coma In have hao other things thing to III sell Ill 11 than pure muscle mU Capital Many Inn comp come to 10 Invest capital In raining or to 10 engage In trade Iro PITONS WHO FOrt FOR 25 23 CENTS A DAY DAV D DHow How about the labor conditions Gen Gon Clayton Do the th capitalists have much trouble with organized d labor Not nt lit all nil the reply The Tho only organized d labor In Mexico In Is that lel on Mt the different branches of oC the railways railway Such uch men belong to II union but hUI their organizations are lito branches of or the trades traMs unions minions of ur tin the 1 State Slates The chief labor of or Mexico Is made imitate up of peons the iii Mf of or the native Indians They Tho lire are not 1101 like ilkI our OUI Indians being 1 fur Cur more mati Industrious and more mare quiet and trills pa lIr handled They do not know what the walking delegate Is I mid and as nil asyet yet It f hind and lockouts tire lire lively mr some Idea Idell of ot gen Ren en enNal oral etal said paid I 1 Wage Ol low lore replied our Ir enmor to Mexico cents centa I u n 1 day duy Is paid fur for labor tabor In inn frost parts of oC the th n and In tho the s the line Ih wages are lire ly Iy The Tl c hours ere long end on tine tile farms the men work from Crom roan sunrise to sunset with a 1 siesta at nt noon IIi AI I see by hy a n recent dispatch that the Chi Chinese wee e are lire corning coming Into Mexico by 11 the i thousands Such statements Ire are o ag Berated was waR the reply Thins there are nrc nr not roan man In Mexico I and they the are 1110 ut on un one o Q of two torts ports In order that the character chata of or those thos coming In III ninny may mn bv bl carefully c Investigated ed cd What hut are the Mormons n duing In III Mexico They The have hn three the ambassador two In UP II tin district of oC tit tie slate Inte of ut Chihuahua an nil I Ione one Olle In the district lI of or Ann In There Thore Is IR 1 nn an olony Hot miot Mormon In the lice t te n o Of l j which has Wn h n l within u time tho thol I l past Iut st fix six months All AI 11 nf ot th s cotonio and d i nr In tn n 1 tho thu Mormons nr err I IJ ou oils find 1111 About Il nu 1 II mitt many en f era ra nIr there In Mexico l tow Cow fow Ur Lyre than MO OO I 13 j A AAre r IN 14 MEXICO mICO 1 Are Arc there many Americans I Yes Ye more Inore than tho u of or any foreign nationality nil oat I excepting e o oThere tho limo There ao oro 1000 or of ot our people there thIC All 11 co so far as ns I know retain remit their American citizenship and most Connie come Intending to pia only long enough to III make m o their fortunes fortune H and then theil return to 10 the United Stales States hat mire are tho Americans doling doing They fhe Are Interested In m nil all sorts forts nt of Some SonIc are arc opening up 1111 gold old f liver r and copper coppel matinee Others have hIe franchises hl for tor street treet tr et railroad amid waterworks In lu the Soma yomo are engaged en n 11 In fanning fit r n nil n Y ate nto em 1111 employed Pl In n connection connection with the rall III roads which w largely to th the United Male Have Hae nervy made 11 1 lIt fortunes Some Pome bare ha done don well hut limit none have hav I rondo made the tho enormous suns ar are arnow arnow now note called fortunes In the th Belted Stoles There Thure rp ln i on O J man Mr lir Ir who hi 11 M said to be Je worth about I OCO roo 00 or In Mexican money H lie bulk built the National railroad winch which runs from Crom Vera Cruz to Mexico City It Ity and has ha be bean heen n interested In other othe enterprises of large size Alze Jen Cen FrU Fris hu hH IH Is said to 10 be worth o or In Mexican money mone but w wo we I hon have no mm other oilier multimillionaires that Dint I f Il know l of ut ofIs ofIs Is III capital Invested In 11 Mexico safe I dont know what you mean b 11 safe said General Clayton Clay tall If It danger train from revolution or from Crom confiscation by h the government nt Is III concerned It 1 Iii is perfectly safe It Is II Just like property In the United Stales One Olle must In int t hl his titles before purchasing anal the tho man main who Intends to Invest should go to 10 Mexico and examine things thing for himself How lIow about abort the coffee and rubber rubbe plantations 7 Such Hitch things should be carefully In Inquired Into Everything I depends upon the locality Mexico hue bus a II variety o or of oils seine come very Yen rich und timid some sOllie no not nol worth a 1 cent An nn acre nert MINES nI S Slow How low about the mines tI Mexico Is ts very er rich In minerals bu buIt but It has hns been beau mined for centuries It Is lf i estimated that mote Inore than four tour Gillian billion dollars 11 II worth of at gold and silver have been hren taken out of or tho lino earth there therl Th The mining inns hAS gone on steadily since the tho therla days of or ortez Alexander who among lilt his other scientific attain menu meats find tad those of 01 a II mining engineer said ald I that there were wore three thousand mines In operation In ht Mexico when he lie went through that country about 10 years ago lilia The Mexicans lire are gooi good minera They The know knol the value of or their own oun product mead and they the arc lire shrewd dealers deal ers er Americans going there should hould Investigate carefully If It they the do so o I they may many mil make their fortunes for tor the tho Is undoubtedly undoubted I itch In Is much American money going Into III to tl oilcan mines Quite n II good goal don deal I J should soy say ny re ro rot t lied Into vi hot mt k I asked Gold l silver amid copper Con Onn you Yell OU toll tell mo 1110 something as to ho the ul lit of 01 the n a lIes I Yes 08 1 I hove have n II list of 01 the Ih principal I l nes ones which wale wat last year Tin rho TinI I has lias more mare than limn 1 tC nines mines which produce gold sliver silver and Iud I copper I II There are nr 45 upper topper el mines I f very vcr large ones There other otherl l altos which produce r rudu e copper and lead I 1 and anel copper and anil Iron There are lire snore more than limn 1000 gold mines and almost 1000 produce both gold and silver Altogether them are G mines which out more or less lens gold either puro j or In iii connection with other metals There are mot moro 5 0 alter r nines which im nn producing tho line mines 8 of or various kind nil 1111 toll told yield an in output of about gold Fold dollars per po year yea I II I FAT S FIFTY Y t oNG IO a How liars about farming general I min It pays trell t In Mexico The Ihl most moat there h is I Ill stock ll 11 the time There enormous In ht Mex Mexico Imo ico Home ore are so large lorre that you vou have to ride more than lift to In cro I them firm A Cots fow o yearn tga MU I 1 went down to tn II tho the Isthmus of tepec and took a I trip through the tho th cattle cuttle country there I rode lodo through one farm which had hod thousand head hend upon It ft through h another which had over Oer thir thirteen thirteen I teen leen thousand This wits was Us In III February In hr time the midst of ot our winter The prairies i were werl then thell covered with grass which reached to 10 my m The Tho lIttle cattle l Indus tty U Is j ono OliO of ur the great ones of ot Mexico The total value of 01 the ranches Is ly more than half u II billion gold Rolel dollars and the tho emit cattle arc are numbered by b millions There me IIII the chief markets for 01 tho time stock I naked asked i The Tho United tulips takes most mo t of oC the I surplus from northern Mexico said Ambassador Amb s Clayton The cattle are I nl tho the border and fattened In 11 Texas Tex I or the territories and thence i shipped to tho limo grout great packing Centers rp In the south the Iho chief thief markets are Cu Cuba Cuha ba ha bl nail anil Soult America Is Mexico doing In manufacturing turing I n asked ked kedIt It Is Increasing Its cotton factories replied the ambassador It hints has now i considerable ble over A n hundred II u red factories which use something like sixty million pounds of ot raw cotton n a year ear The foe fac factories tortes tories make mak different kinds of ot goods In eluding dullinG colleges ul oel They made over oer 11 pieces of or cloth year chiefly of 1 4 d for or horre Tho rho Tho Is protected Ly a n high tariff NT DIM DIAZ Tell mo moo something about President Gen aen Clayton I What kind of ot a n mean man li Is he lie hei lielie iVi lie Is one ot of the tho executives of ot hh Ilia i time limo was the tho reply Ho lie tins hen been pr ilent of 11 Mexico for CO about u n clear tr t r or of n 1 cent 11 and amid tho time prosperity pro ot oo the tho country U Is 3 largely due to In him him noto hII doc doci ho hl tome come from General He la le a native Mexican replied Gen Clayton Ho lie was wan born In which Is If n II da days s ride by b trait be Jaw ion Mexico City It arch h him hI Is I old olti enough now to have served In the Mexican tt army Item during the Mexican win Will II ne Ile wn Ia however not much louch Inure mure than a boy bov JU nt at the tho limo lime n te Shortly 5 niter attar the lite w wa tr r was ryes over 01 he ho II left the army army to study low In W but ho lie entered It again from front time to time inking part In III many man of the tho civil com cont which preceded his hll own elec election lion tion nn ns president He lIe become became president In t timid and c then them n It to bring order ordel out of or hove Inco then Ihen Mexico Mexico Inns hlll been bellI quiet CIlI I t omit loin Jell inns has to Its It so 10 o well that lint with the tion 10 mm nf or n f ono onn Intervening ve term he ho e Its has hn held the tho e of oC president from from in that time to thIH I see nee ee It II Is in I that he hr Is In about to 10 retIme front the lire pr mid so hI I IVI II VI I 1 think not auf l our ambassador mm to Mexico Ho lie may give e the duties of oC liU hll over oer to the vice president while he takes lakes n I trip trill to lo but 1 I do ut think he lie re petty ts to retire TILE THE DAY D t OK OJ JOil IONI I nv nY President Diaz Dla should retire re retire tire would he the effect upon the government Would there thero bo be another mother revolution 7 ht No 0 replied I The day of or revolutions has hIlS r s passed ep e t as 1111 far t aa nil Mexico If Is concerned The people ople hove have hind had the blessings of ot pence for rOl almost rt II generation cold they th would not sub Hub submit submit mit to n a change of at that kind Besides ne the evolutionary i element his has died ore oft offIn In hl time the Interim and it a 1 substantial bust busi business ness element clement of or people has lints taken Its it place An td A nn an evidence of or my mu faith In the 11 stability IIII of oC Mexico I have been ben Invest Investing leg InK In III government bonds They The pay III n Il little more than securities In ht the Slates and I regard them as ns equally sate safe AND TILE THE PANAMA CANAL CANI The Fine conversation hero here turned to po political matters and I asked Gen Oell Clay In Inton ton It If he thought |