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Show INDUSTRIAL PEAN FOR BORDER FAILS i JAUREZ, Max., April 22-Dreams of Dr. Francis S. Pearson for the estab-' estab-' lishraent of an industrial empire in northern Mexico continue to be sbat -Uered. Ir Pearson, who was a victim 'of the torpedoed Lusiiania while going to England to finance the Mexican companies of which he was the head, planned to build a chain of lumber mills, box factories, pulp and paper mills in northwestern Chihuahua which would employ thousands of Mexican laborers and would supply the American Amer-ican market with lumber products at I a low cost. Organizing the Mexico North Western Wes-tern railroad company in the United (states and Canada, Dr Pearson took 'over the immense lumber concessions owned by the late Col William G Greene, founder of the Cutanea copper cop-per camp The old Rio Grande and Pacific railroad which was buiit by Col. Greene was also purchased and rebuilt as the Mexico North estern railroad from Jaurez to Chihuahua City by way of Casas Grandes, Pearson. Madera and Tcmosachlo. A million dollar lumber plant was built at Madera, which was founded by Dr. Pearson. Another of almost equal size was built at Pearson, named in his honor, and a third big mill and ' box factory rected in LI Paso to mill ! the product of the Pearson mills in , transit in order to obtain the lower frr.iVil r.il The MaHora iritlla woro to supply the Mexican trade with him ber, box shook and lumber by-products. Soon afu i the Mexico North Wes- ; tern railroad was rebuilt, the Madera and Pearson mills completed and ihe factory erected here, the Madera rev- olution started. Although ihe Mader-istas Mader-istas did not barm the mills, the revo- J lutionary bands destroyed practically all railroad bridges, the Dia: federal troops confiscated the rolling stock, and locomotives and the mills were forced to close. Other revolutions which followed; continued destroying ihe railroad and confiscating the equipment until the entire system was forced to suspend operat'on Then in 1913, Maximo Castillo Cas-tillo and his bandit- set fire to the Cumbre tunnel a ftw minutes before I s passenger train plunged into it. Six - j ty were lost in the tunnel and the operation ot trains from the border to j the state capital made impossible as the tunm ! was never rt built. The Madera lumber mills were fore - i ed to close as ihe destruction of Cumbre tunnel bloeke-d shipments of jits products south to tho Mexican mar :ket8. For three years these big. mod - , em mills lay idle It was planned to I resume operations there January 1 1 1920 but a fire from the power plan1.' 'destroyed the greater part of the plant' land it is doubtful if the mills will be! rebuilt. I The Poarson properties in northern Mexico were estimated to be worth 140,000,000 gold. Siucc they were e,B-l tabllshed the company Is said to have I suffered more than $5,000,000 in actual I losses and many times more lu loss j of profits due to suspended operations |