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Show HON. QUIL NEBEKER SEES I THINGS IN OLD MEXICO BBl Tlio Honorable Aiiuilta Ncbeker, of Hear Lake county, Logan, the State BBl at large, ex-Governor of (.'tali, and as- BBl pirant to the scat of President Por- lliia Din;', of the Mexican republic, BY Is now talking Mexico anil Mexican BBb tropical laud with ten- times the BBm i energy exhibited by the contestants In BBm the Kquitable Life Insurance racket. B Wonderful Country. BBl (.mill has been In Mexico a number of times, jou know, and each time he BY comes back It Is with renewed and ever incieaslng faith In the exceeding- BBl ly wonderful possibilities of thai BBH country. As (julll tells It, a butTalo BBS chip nlneyeais old needs but a little BBb. water to grow It Into a herd of as tine BBB looking cattle us the Loitl over made, BBB and a cobble stone spilnkled tlilrty- BflB two days cveiy mouth for three con BBH sccutlvc months will grow a blown BBB stone front ecllplslng Sunatoi Clark's BBl $15,000,000 piece of architecture. One BBB can actually sec the vegetation grow, BBB. and an Instance Is related of one fool- BBB. IshAmcilcan standing out a newly BBB. planted banana Hoc Just aftci nne of BBB those troplc.1l rilus with the lcsult BBB that tlio tree took him upwatd In Its BBB Journey, enfolded Its leaves around BBB him and kept him prisoner there for BBB thhtydajs. At the end of that time BBB the fellow had gotten on the outside BBB of so many bananas that tlio ticc BBB bioke from the weight and In the fall BBB .the American bursled. If you arc from Missouri, and want to make the BBB trip, Quill can showlyou the dent BBB where the Atnciican lilt the ground H Its Beyond Compare. V Soilously speaking, Quill thinks BBB , tionleal Mexico is bevond compaie, and he has a seiles of pictures that BBB proolt. The soil Is of the blackest BBB loam and glows anything fiotn tho colTcc bean to muhagonv trees six feet BBB In diameter and 150 feet to thu Mist BBB limb. Ilananas, sugar cane, oranges, BBB lemons and fiulls of all kind giow BBB with but half an opportunity, and vegetation of all kinds grows In lank- est piofuslou. During tho year theie Is a rainfall of TJO inches, most of BBB which falls In September, October and BBB November. Dili Ing thoothcr months, BBH the rainfall averages from four to live BBB I inches each mouth. The temperature BBB never gets below 58 degtces and at noon never above 1)7 or PS. The show- BBB crs come after thieC o'clock in the J afternoon, usuilly at night however. Tho pioductlvencssor the land Isab- BBBj solutelv unlimited In Quill's estlmti- BBBj tlon. Most of it at present is covered with dense foiests anu palms, and the rolling prairies with dense glass. Sugar cane grows to fifteen feet in BBJ height and after one planting seeds ftself for from ten to twelve years. Is Entranced. With the exceedingly primitive methods or sugar production, the owners own-ers then make big money, (julll sa)s that with less than half an effort every acre of that country can be made to pay loo yearly. lie goes Into raptures about the climate, the views, the abundance of water, the timber, the richness of the soil, beauty of the streams and small lakes and certainly gives evidence of being entranced. Land is Cheap. At the picsent time hundreds of old Spanish grandees, too Independent to work, and having made what to them are gieat sums of money, arc selling great stretches of this country for Insignificant In-significant sums. It Is not uncommon uncom-mon for a man to offer ten, twenty or lUtv thousand acics at front $1 to 51.60 an acie. After his many trips there negotiating puichases for other people, Qull has decided to go Into the purchasing business himself and has now practically closed a deal for 370,-000 370,-000 acies of land aiound a certain lake but forty miles fiom the gulf, away down south of Mexico city, and Just at present lie says ho intends to go there and live. He has secured twenty men who will put up tlio money foi this purchase, and it Is now the Intention to put stock on the market. mar-ket. The company proposes to give stock buvcrs the privilege of taking land within twoyeaisor to keep the stock In the company. Tile company will hold Its land for speculation or develop It Just as Is deemed advisable. The Book of Mormon. No one would accuse Quill of being cxlraordiuailly lcliglous. oi particularly particu-larly inteicstcd In the llook of Mormon, Mor-mon, but he sas that he llnds there that the book has a foundation. It Is lelated In thu Hook of Mormon that certain people fiom the east settled In ttliplcal Mexico and became Immensely Im-mensely rich, and that they finally exlei initialed themselves on some account. ac-count. Quill savs that all tluougli that country the nilns of a great civilization civ-ilization aie to be found everywhere, and the present pioductlvetic.ss would give cicdence to the other. He sas there arc ruins of palaces, ruins of great buildings, cvciythlug that goes to show a high type of civilization. Atecs knew nothing of the people, nor the Toltecs, nor any other tecs. Hut we can't get off all of Quill's effusions for he Is so full of Mexico that he talks foi four hours on a stretch without taking a breath but If you can llnd a soft spot on which to sit, have nothing to do, and can kncii out of the rcacli of Quill's cane with which he emphasizes tils rcmaiksyou will llnd It a pleasuie to listen to him. |
