Show I I MEXICO A F FAS FOURTH AS LARGE AS U U. U 2 8 Interesting Facts About AbDUl Republic lic lie In the Souil I POPULATION IS I Nation Covers Cover Square Miles City of Mexico Miles Mile by Rail West Wes of Vera Cruz Crux and Is la Feet Above Sea Level Reached Level Beached by Two Different Railway Lints Linea Washington The The following informs Information tion concerning Mexico was given ou out by the National National Geographic society lety in in Washington the other day It is interesting to note note that the tiles area ol ot Mexico is practically lIy as IS great greut a as that of the United States between the Mississippi river and md the coast the great lakes and u 1 the gulf o of 01 Mexico ar varying ing in altitude from sc sea sealevel level le to feet Its climate t is af b by these elevations an and by a u range of eighteen degrees of latitude Twelve l hundred miles is the distant distance t traversed in passing south from Jua Juarez rez on the northern boundary to capital and miles more to th the southeastern boundary The gulf o of 01 Mexico and Caribbean sea yea coast Hu liD line exten extends s for 1700 miles while the Ia ocean and gulf of California touch 4 miles of Mexican coast Prior to 1836 1830 Mexico as a Spanish colony and the United States co coverer covered approximately approximately- equal areas but th thE Texas sec secession sin and the result of th the Mexican can war added nearly square miles to our territory and th thE thE- extent of Mexico now is less than our one fourth that of continental United States Mexico exico has still sUIl territorial ex ex- pause equal to the aggregate of Aus Aus- Germany France Great Grea Britain and Ireland The total area o othe of the republic square miles i iless Is less than that of Texas California New Mexico and Arizona Arizon combined The average density of population o of Mexico approximates twenty pe per square mile the most thickly populated portions outside of the federal districts district being the the- states tates of Tlaxcala and co the former being less than than Delaware Delaware Delaware Dela Dela- ware in size and of about the same density of population and the latter latte being nearly as large as New Hampshire Hamp Hamp- shire ire but with more than twice t the number of inhabitants The federal federa district modeled after atter the District o of Columbia but hut of eight times greater greater greate area is la surrounded by the state o of Mexico the large population of the capital materially aiding In n brill bringing ing the average to more than 1200 per square mile During nearly Zil years subsequent to the Conquest by Cortes Spain dow dow- d ul u- u l Mexico A century century- ago a bold effort Tort for freedom was started eventually en resulted in the republic o ot of Mexico Q of today More than half hatt o of t the first century of Mexican independence coterie after dence Bence was abortive one another coming into temporary power and a number of those acclaimed rulers rulers rul ers after brief regimes meeting Ignominious ignominious Igno igno- minious death at the hands o of the people IWo IWo- pIe they sought to govern The he form of government go adopted I lIy by y Mexico follows In general that of th the United States States- having executive e judicial judi cial and nud legislative divisions Each of the twenty-seven twenty states Is represented represent represent- ed In two houses of congress composed composed compos compos- ed of senators and deputies Congress holds two sessions each year for limited limited limit limit- ed periods Each state has its IN gover governor or and legislature and is subdivided subdivided sub sub- divided into districts or counties over each of which a Jefe politico o is placed the districts having subsidiary municipalities with magistrates presiding pre siding ng officials and councils The so called autocratic feature of the government government gov gov- o may be largely due to the tho fact that governors hold office with approval approval ap II of the president that jefe politicos po po- os have ha similar relations with the governor and that the thc officers of the municipalities are generally controlled by the jefe politicos po tl os The The church and state are independent ent and congress cannot annot pass 11 laws w eel reli prohibiting or establishing any gion pion Of the 16 Inhabitants two fifths claim descent from ancient I tribes or families wh which h are accepted as the basis of Mexican history two two- fifths arc are of native and lU td foreign forein blood the remainder Iwin being lIas classed under th common appellation of f forel foreign II The Cit City of Mexico U xh-o. xh miles mile by mil west of Vera Cruz and feet nit alti altitude tude js II by two rail route rote climbing through the hot lands bails through difficult mountain pas passes es one oue of which hid closely follows fonow the trail taken b by COltes Cortex Cortes Cor Cor- tes tex In 1519 1513 h by General Winfield S-ott S ott with American troops in 1847 and over ores which fifteen n years yearl later Inter the invadIng Ing tug Fr French troops pas passed p 1 It is the most populous city cit |