. Guide to Mexico . , while the country is 2,000 mileslong and from 140 to 750 miles wide. The Gulf ports of entry for foreign commerceare: Vera Cruz, Tampico, Frontera, Progreso,Coatzacoalcos, Campeche, Tuxpan, Carmen, An-ton Lizardo and Matamoras; and those on the Pa-cific: Mazatlan, Manzanillo, Guaymas, San Bias,La Paz, Puerto Augel, Acapulco, Salina Cruz,Tonala, Ensenada, and Soconusco or San Benito. POPULATION. There are about fourteen million people inMexico, of which some nine and a half million areof the laboring classes, including Lidians, andthere are some three hundred thousand fore
. Guide to Mexico . , while the country is 2,000 mileslong and from 140 to 750 miles wide. The Gulf ports of entry for foreign commerceare: Vera Cruz, Tampico, Frontera, Progreso,Coatzacoalcos, Campeche, Tuxpan, Carmen, An-ton Lizardo and Matamoras; and those on the Pa-cific: Mazatlan, Manzanillo, Guaymas, San Bias,La Paz, Puerto Augel, Acapulco, Salina Cruz,Tonala, Ensenada, and Soconusco or San Benito. POPULATION. There are about fourteen million people inMexico, of which some nine and a half million areof the laboring classes, including Lidians, andthere are some three hundred thousand foreign-ers, representing nearly all nations, indus-tries of mining, manufacturing, trading and agri-culture. PROPERTY. The titles and riglijts to property are good a&anywhere, and one is protected in same by law asmuch as in the United States. Tlie wealth of the country is increasing veryrapidly, so that land and houses will be worth verynuuli more a few years hence than they are now^in 1898. g^,4«:j?| X/1P. 20 GUIDE TO MEXICO. TAXATION. The State tax on lands and houses vary from .75to per year on the $1,000 of assessed value,which is always moderate. Federal taxes are in the forms of duty on im-ported goods and stamp on all business documents,and amount in all to some fifty million dollarsper annum. There is little likelihood that taxes will ever behigher and a strong probability they may be lowerthan thev are now. INDUSTRIES. There are some one hundred and fifty cottonand woolen factories, with capital of some twenty-five million dollars invested, supporting, in theproduction of material, in the field, and by laborin the mills, some sixty-five thousand annual production of the factories equal theamount of capital invested. There are some dozen paper mills, several glassfactories, quite a number of breweries, some fruitpreserving establishments, iron, brass and nailfoundries, cotton seed, castor oil mills and soapfactories, all doing well, with yet more
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