. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. itles, made a journey to Lower California, and after anexamination of the companys lands, became largely in-terested in them. The operations of the International Company of Mex-ico cover a very wide field, as it has grants in other partsof Mexico; and its Lower California concessions and workform only a part of its enterprises. Besides its grants for surveying, occupying, and colo-nizing the northern part of the Peninsula of Lower Cali-fornia, it has e
. Peninsular California; some account of the climate, soil productions, and present condition chiefly of the northern half of Lower California. itles, made a journey to Lower California, and after anexamination of the companys lands, became largely in-terested in them. The operations of the International Company of Mex-ico cover a very wide field, as it has grants in other partsof Mexico; and its Lower California concessions and workform only a part of its enterprises. Besides its grants for surveying, occupying, and colo-nizing the northern part of the Peninsula of Lower Cali-fornia, it has extensive grants of lands in the MexicanStates of Sonora, Sinaloa, and Chiapas, together with rail-road charters in these States. Chiapas, which is the mosttropical and one of the least-known of the Mexican States,adjoining and bordering upon the republic of Guatema-la, is also, by the accounts of Mexican writers, one of therichest States of the republic in its natural products andits capacity to grow profitably coffee, sugar, India-rubber,and many other valuable tropical products. It needs arailroad to open it to settlement and LAND TITLES. 83 The International Company holds a concession tobuild and operate a railroad in Lower California, to con-nect the Peninsula with the United States. The line ofthis railroad has already been surveyed, and will be foundmarked on the map which accompanies this volume. Itsnortherly connection will be, as shown on the map, withSan Diego; and this part of the line, to be built at once,will tap the various interior settlements now forming, aswell as points at which gold and other minerals havebeen recently discovered. The easterly line will cross theupper end of the Peninsula and pass through the Statesof Sonora and Chihuahua to El Paso. Under its concession for a railroad in Chiapas thecompany will build a line from the Pacific port of SanBenito to the Atlantic port of the Grijalba River. Thiswill be a transcontinental line. It will p
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