. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. touch ofadventure in it, and to-day many distinguished people from all parts of the world,visit this port for the sole purpose of tarpon fishing and wild-fowl shooting. Within a radius of one hundred and fifty miles of Tampico there are fifteenAmerican colonies being located at Atascagor, La Palma, Columbus, ColoniaAmericana, Alta Vista, Quaker City, Chamal, San Diegurto, and other smallcolonies. Many of them are settling rapidly and have established good schoolsand churches. They are employed in agriculture and many oth
. Mexico, a history of its progress and development in one hundred years. touch ofadventure in it, and to-day many distinguished people from all parts of the world,visit this port for the sole purpose of tarpon fishing and wild-fowl shooting. Within a radius of one hundred and fifty miles of Tampico there are fifteenAmerican colonies being located at Atascagor, La Palma, Columbus, ColoniaAmericana, Alta Vista, Quaker City, Chamal, San Diegurto, and other smallcolonies. Many of them are settling rapidly and have established good schoolsand churches. They are employed in agriculture and many other enterprises. In this State are found various seams of coal and many mineral the metals that are found in the State are copper, silver, gold, lead, zincand iron. The oil wells of Tamaulipas are already famous. The oil belt reachesinto the State of Vera Cruz and will be found all along the State of Tamaulipas,as far as Texas. Prominent oil experts predicted that this State would becomeone of the greatest oil-producing sections in Mexico. TAMAULIPAS 365. The cultivation of the zapupe fibre plant has received most attention inthe Tampico section. Within the last three years several companies have beenformed for the cultivation of zapupe near Tampico and in addition a number ofindividuals are engaged inplanting the fibre. It isclaimed that zapupe ma-tures more quickly, that itproduces more fibre to theplant than henequen. In Victoria and vicin-ity, about one hundred milesnorth of Tampico, henequengrowing is receiving muchattention. Land not fit forany other kind of culti-vation seems to be well plaza, for henequen. During the Civil War in the United States, 1861-1865, Tamaulipas made ahandsome income by raising cotton and exporting it to that country. Manyfarmers became rich in that way; but when the war was over, and cotton fellin price with the return of peace and the revival of the southern states, the pro-duction declined. There is no reason wh
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