Architect and engineer . PATIO OF SMALL HOUSE, PALAIA DEL RIO. BY EMERSON KNIGHT, Landscape Architect D. URING the spring and summer of1929, experiencing a keen desire to visitand know Mexico, I read eagerly muchthat could enlighten me on that country,and was further encouraged by maps anddata furnished by San Francisco officialsof the Southern Pacific Railway and theNational Railways of Mexico. The agentof the latter told me that Senor Luis Montesde Oca, Secretary of the Treasury, andSenor Javier Sanchez Mejorada, then Sec-retary of Communications in Mexico, weremen of vision who conceived no
Architect and engineer . PATIO OF SMALL HOUSE, PALAIA DEL RIO. BY EMERSON KNIGHT, Landscape Architect D. URING the spring and summer of1929, experiencing a keen desire to visitand know Mexico, I read eagerly muchthat could enlighten me on that country,and was further encouraged by maps anddata furnished by San Francisco officialsof the Southern Pacific Railway and theNational Railways of Mexico. The agentof the latter told me that Senor Luis Montesde Oca, Secretary of the Treasury, andSenor Javier Sanchez Mejorada, then Sec-retary of Communications in Mexico, weremen of vision who conceived noble plans for the conservation of forests and magnifi-cent virgin territory in National Parkform; also for reforestation and the pres-ervation of archeological, historical andartistic treasures of the Aztec and Colon-ial periods. At the close of August, stimulated to thepoint of adventure, I trained down theWest Coast of Mexico—Southern PacificRoute—taking photographs of native cus-toms and architecture, as far as Guadala-jara. Continuing by train from t
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