India rubber world . d impressive than Popocatepetlor its sister summit, over which tourists rave. After a briefstop at the mountain hedged city ol Orizaba, we left the trainat Cordoba, where the Spanish of my traveling companion wasmost helpful in securing accommodation at a little Mexicanhotel where we had a really good dinner and comfortable beds. In the morning we took an early train over the Vera Cruz and Pacific road for Achotal, its terminus. Although the run unsettled >s not a ong one. l takes from 6 oclock in the country, morning till 1 the following morning to make it. That we wer
India rubber world . d impressive than Popocatepetlor its sister summit, over which tourists rave. After a briefstop at the mountain hedged city ol Orizaba, we left the trainat Cordoba, where the Spanish of my traveling companion wasmost helpful in securing accommodation at a little Mexicanhotel where we had a really good dinner and comfortable beds. In the morning we took an early train over the Vera Cruz and Pacific road for Achotal, its terminus. Although the run unsettled >s not a ong one. l takes from 6 oclock in the country, morning till 1 the following morning to make it. That we were getting into an unsettled country was muchmore apparent than ever before, the cars being guarded byrurales (the native military police), and the passengers, bothAmericans and Mexicans, having the free and easy demeanorwhich characterized the early days of the Far West. The con-ductors and train hands were Americans, as were many of the ? MAGUEY PLANTATION NEAR MEXICO CITY. 258 THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD [M u i, LOOKING DOWN UPON MALTRA1A FROM THE TRAIN. passengers, all going south and most of them interested in plant-ing projects. As was natural, the Americans and English grav-itated together, and I heard many interesting facts concerningthe country and much concerning rubber planting. The verdictof those who were not directly interested in the business seem-ed to be that there was nothing in it, and that rubber treescould never be grown. Indeed, one passenger said flatly thathe had been in the country a number of years, had never seena rubber tree, and didnt believe theycould be grown anyhow. This did notseem to disturb the serenity of theplanters, who didnt argue the matterat all, but let the others talk. Wepassed a rather wearisome day on thetrain, stopping occasionally for mealsand getting them served more andmore in pioneer fashion. I had intend-ed to stop ofT at Tierra Blanca, in thevicinity of which are large plantations,but learning that the men whom I mostwished t
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