. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . verbetter in his life, nor in finer spirits. The old Candelaria mine,which he loves better than politics, or horse racing, or senator-ships, is again on the boom and is turning out ore from severalnew developements that would make your heart sick to think youdid not own it. If the mine was in CaHfornia, the daily paperswould be publishing columns about this marvelous strike, andliundred of miners would be prospecting the country for But here in Me
. A glimpse of old Mexico; being the observations and reflections of a tenderfoot editor while on a journey in the land of Montezuma . verbetter in his life, nor in finer spirits. The old Candelaria mine,which he loves better than politics, or horse racing, or senator-ships, is again on the boom and is turning out ore from severalnew developements that would make your heart sick to think youdid not own it. If the mine was in CaHfornia, the daily paperswould be publishing columns about this marvelous strike, andliundred of miners would be prospecting the country for But here in Mexico, such things pass for nothing. Theymerely say, Yes, the Colonel is very fortunate, and so dismissthe incident. But the grading is going on for a new forty-stampmill, and when it begins to run, the output of the Candeleria willastonish the world. Thats why Colonel Burns is here, and reso-lutely persists in letting the other fellows walk the floor. He hasliis business eye on probably the biggest thing that ever came hisway during his eventful career. San Dimas, State of Durango, Mexico, March 12, 1901. F f F T H J. E T T E li. ERHAPS a word here about the peopleof Mexico as I have observed them maybe of interest. When I speak of the peo-ple, I do not refer to the high castegroup of wealthy, educated and refinedmen and women. These you can find ine\ery civilized country and they arevery much the same the world while they may influence, they arejOt the ones that make a loation. If you wish to examine the po-tential forces on the future of a race depends, you must getv\ell doun among the masses and see of what stuff they are supply the creative power, they make a community rich orpoor, progressive or unprogressive, ambitious or sluggard. Car-negie, Rockefeller, V^anderbilt and Pierrepont ]\lorgan never. ould have amounted to a row of pins by themselves. They hi^vepiled up their hundreds of millions simply and solely becaus<i ofthe genius and splendi
Size: 1549px × 1612px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidglimpseofold, bookyear1901
