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Show NORTH MEXICO JGYOUS AS VILLA RAVAGES END TORBEuN. Coahulla. Mexico, Sept. 1 Thcie is great rejoicing Itirough out northern Mexico because Of the surrender of Rr&ncieco Vills For ten years a guerilla revolutionise and bandit ban-dit Villa ha kepi the great agrlcultu-inl. agrlcultu-inl. grazing and mining dlstr:cts from here north demoralized Nn a return re-turn to normal Is expected although the process will take .e.rs provided the central government at Mexico Clt remains normal and there arc no mori roolutions in the north. Mines until now could not work tully I ccausc their men would be conscripted conscript-ed by one faction or another. The miners were frequently called upon fop largf payments of mone. theii i.:;.eliiner w.is uflpn destroyed ninl It was almost impdsslble to k-f-p tlio mineq and mine employes supplied with fooi! and other necessities ie ,,n of theft and lack of transportation Cattle owners fared as bad!. I'heli oges are now practically depleted of livestock through activities of thlevei and the military, governmental, revolutionary revo-lutionary and banditry. Where tattle f'.nd sheep once were counted by tens of thousands the are now counted by dozens. Farmers are In as bad way A crop riijtht be planted only to have it c-tlrel: c-tlrel: taken by one or another of opposing op-posing forces Consequently for -1 ral years tho peons have planted only tnough to supply their own meager Wants. The larife ranch nunrs i-ithi-r HiTf fugltlvi H In foreign lountries or had given up the attempt to farm. Everyw here the poverty marks of resolution res-olution ire evident B nd admitted throughout northern Mexico. (rains over the Mexican Central railroad now run direct from Mexico City to the border at Juarez without .-top and have Pullman Berries Previously Pre-viously the operated only at day from this point north, remaining oer-tltght oer-tltght at Torreon. Jimenez and Chihuahua Chihua-hua City, making a three day trip, where as under the new schedule the lun ts made In 2i hours The trains silll operate with two armored cars-carrying cars-carrying soldiers one behind the tender ten-der and thp other at the rear of the. train, but the guards are not so heavy ns previously |