The Mexican Year Book: The Standard Authority ...

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By Robert Glass Cleland

Published 1922
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Guanajuato - Page 348
In certain districts joint cultivation on the metayer plan is found; especially is this true in Jalisco and Guanajuato, the great corn producing ...

Tuxpam - Page 299
The activities of these pests were especially directed against the pay rolls which had to be sent from the companies' offices at Tampico or Tuxpam to ...

Guadalajara - Page 156
Most travelers would perhaps choose Guadalajara, next after the capital, as a place for a prolonged visit. Guadalajara is in a remarkably beautiful ...

Monterrey - Page 179
Locomotives were sent out to gather up all the box cars of the adjacent divisions of the railway and bring them to Monterrey for the purpose of making ...

Mexico City - Page 155
On this basis, Mexico City should be the principal objective of the traveler and the place at which he should make the longest stay. ...

San Luis Potosí - Page 177
The same seems to be true of the lines from Matamoros to Monterrey, from Paredón to Saltillo, from Tampico to San Luis Potosí, from Mexico to Toluca, ...

Oaxaca - Page 20
Either through treaties or by conquest, Spanish settlements were thus established in Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tehuantepec. ...

Guaymas - Page 169
was induced in 1905 to favor the construction of the Southern Pacific line from Guaymas to a connection with the City of Mexico at Guadalajara. ...

Aguascalientes - Page 176
especially on the San Luis Potosi, Aguascalientes and Northern divisions, and along the lines of the Interoceanic and Mexican Southern Railways. ...

Irapuato - Page 394
from Irapuato, reached by National Railways (on line from Irapuato to Guadalajara via Lake Chápala), average time 3Vi hours; 25 miles.

Chilpancingo - Page 378
A place of growing importance, easily reached by steamers plying along the west coast, also from Chilpancingo by National Railways. ...

Hermosillo - Page 377
headquarters at Monterey; north central Mexico, headquarters at Chihuahua; northwestern Mexico (including Pacific coast), headquarters at Hermosillo; ...

Nuevo Laredo - Page 158
The route by way of Nuevo Laredo, being a through line from the United States, presents fewest of these difficulties.

Mazatlan - Page 170
From Guadalajara to Mazatlan. From the Tehuantepec line to Campeche, and From the City of Mexico to Tampico. In the years since 1910 railroad ...

Queretaro - Page 39
but Hidalgo abandoned the idea of an attack upon Mexico, which lay only six leagues distant, and withdrew in the direction of Queretaro. ...

Pachuca - Page 269
Even in carts it cost twenty pesos a ton to transport supplies from Mexico City to Pachuca, a distance of sixty miles, and over one hundred and twenty ...

Salina Cruz - Page 392
he proximity of this point to Salina Cruz and its location in the midst of a rich agricultural district gives its business some importance. ...

Sinaloa - Page 170
From the city of Chihuahua to a port in Sonora or northern Sinaloa. From the City of Mexico to a port in Guerrero. From Guadalajara to Mazatlan. ...

Orizaba - Page 243
Much of the Laguna cotton finds a market in the textile mills of Orizaba and other Mexican manufacturing centers, while the seed supplies local ...

Monterey - Page 377
lines of merchandise or manufacture: Northeast Mexico, headquarters at Monterey; north central Mexico, headquarters at Chihuahua; northwestern Mexico ...

Cuernavaca - Page 49
A reactionary party, comprised chiefly of army and church supporters, proclaimed the plan of Cuernavaca and besought Santa Anna to annul the ...

El Paso, Texas - Page 86
693 miles eastward along arbitrarily marked lines from the Pacific Ocean to El Paso, Texas, and the remainder southeastward along the sinuous course ...

Piedras Negras - Page 465
a town on the Mexican side of the Rio Bravo, twenty Mexican leagues (52 English miles) above Piedras Negras, to the mouth of the Rio Grande.

Tlaxcala - Page 242
Tequila, a drink much stronger than pulque, is manufactured chiefly in Tlaxcala, where the town of Tequila gives the beverage its name. ...

Laredo - Page 352
Under the auspices of the first of these two bodies a pumber of international conferences have been held, notably one at Laredo in September, 1918.

Culiacán - Page 21
the Spanish settlement of Culiacán. His reports, and those of the three men who were with him, did much to stimulate further exploration and conquest ...

Zacatecas - Page 243
Guayule: This shrub grows over large areas of the arid por-tions of northern Mexico, especially in southern Coahuila, Du- rango, Zacatecas and ...

Tehuantepec - Page 20
Either through treaties or by conquest, Spanish settlements were thus established in Vera Cruz, Oaxaca and Tehuantepec. ...

Coatzacoalcos - Page 394
from Mexico City, via Interoceanic Railway; 1973 nautical miles from New York City; 125 nautical miles from Coatzacoalcos. ...

Tepic - Page 175
"On the main line from Empalme to Tepic, twenty-three wooden trestles, having a total length of 2985 lineal feet, and on the Corral-Tonichi Branch, ...

Matías Romero - Page 477
Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State of the same, and the United States of Mexico, therein represented by Matías Romero, their Envoy Extraordinary and ...

Naco, Ariz - Page 379
Easily reached from Naco, Ariz. Well worthy of the attention of most salesmen, as there are several commissaries and general stores here, ...

Guatemala - Page 20
taking place in various parts of what we now know as Mexico, other expeditions were reducing the Central American countries of Guatemala and Honduras. ...

Slidell - Page 54
Slidell was despatched from New Orleans to negotiate with the Mexican government. Meanwhile, General Paredes, who had already figured as the leader of ...

Columbus, New Mexico - Page 75
the border and attacked the town of Columbus, New Mexico, causing the death of some twenty persons, about half of whom were United States soldiers. ...

El Oro - Page 220
A transmission line 95 miles long delivers the power to Mexico City, and an additional 75 mile line carries it to El Oro. ...

Tres Valles - Page 173
In 1913 the Vera Cruz and Isthmus completed a branch from Burro to San Andres Tuxtla and another branch from Tres Valles to Cerro Colorado, ...

Mexicali - Page 243
Of recent years, the territory tributary to Mexicali in Lower California, has risen rapidly in importance as a cotton producing section and now rivals ...

New Orleans - Page 54
Slidell was despatched from New Orleans to negotiate with the Mexican government. Meanwhile, General Paredes, who had already figured as the leader of ...

Natchitoches - Page 431
who shall meet before the termination of one year from the date of the ratification of this treaty at Natchitoches, on the Red Biver, and proceed to ...

Baltimore - Page 267
One of these American companies was incorporated in Baltimore, while the other, the United States Mexico Company, secured a charter from the ...

San Diego - Page 439
to a point on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, distant one marine league due south of the southernmost point of the port of San Diego, according to the ...

New York - Page 449
In consideration of the foregoing stipulations, the Government of the United States agrees to pay to the Government of Mexico, in the city of New York ...

Tenochtitlán - Page 13
The City of Mexico: The City of Mexico, or Mexico as it is more properly called, the old Tenochtitlán of early Aztec days, built as it was in the ...

La Capilla - Page 173
Work was also completed in 1920 on a short line from La Capilla, on the Pacific extension of the Mexican Central, to Chápala on the northern shore of ...

Venustiano Carranza - Page 72
The movers in this outbreak were Venustiano Carranza, governor of Coahuila, and governor Maytorena of Sonora. The latter soon fled to the United ...

Amatlan - Page 318
nampa, and Amatlan encourage indiscriminate drilling and consequent early exhaustion.* The most serious blow, however, came from the Mexican ...

Paredón - Page 177
The same seems to be true of the lines from Matamoros to Monterrey, from Paredón to Saltillo, from Tampico to San Luis Potosí, from Mexico to Toluca, ...

Acambaro - Page 397
Gonzales Junction, State of Guanajuato; population 6000; on National Railway, branch line to Acambaro, 55 miles (88 km. ...

Miguel Hidalgo - Page 37
Chief of these was Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest or cura, in the little town of Dolores in the province of Guanajuato. ...

Panamá - Page 27
Cruz was the only port north of Panamá at which the fleets were authorized to touch. On the Pacific, the harbor of Acapulco witnessed the yearly ...

Benjamin Hill - Page 72
The latter soon fled to the United States, but under the leadership of Alvarado, Benjamin Hill and Alvaro Obregón, Sonora became more than ever a ...

Papantla - Page 290
In 1870, a man named Autrey, or Ort ray, reputed inventor of Angostura Bitters, came into possession of this property, set up a still at Papantla to ...

Topolobampo - Page 218
Topolobampo (Sinaloa). An excellent port, connected with the Fuerte River Valley and the Southern Pacific of Mexico by the Kansas City, ...

Engle, New Mexico - Page 511
After the completion of the proposed storage dam near Engle, New Mexico, and the distributing system auxiliary thereto, and as soon as water shall be ...

Agua Prieta - Page 78
and other government buildings at Agua Prieta on the Arizona border, and secured the eonsent of the legislature to proclaim the "Republic of Sonora. ...

La Paz - Page 218
La Paz (Lower California). Population 6000. Gulf port. Chief industries mining and pearl fishing. Manzanillo (Colima). Population 2000. ...

Tlacolula - Page 173
In 1911 the Mexican Southern opened a branch from Oaxaca to Taviche and in 1912, a branch from Oaxaca to Tlacolula. ...

Suchiate - Page 169
the Gulf coast at Tampico and Vera Cruz ; the Pacific coast at Manzanillo ; and the Guatemala frontier at Suchiate, on the river of that name. ...

Minatitlán - Page 294
Between two and three thousand barrels of oil a day were being secured in 1906 and a year or two later a large refinery was erected at Minatitlán to ...

Yaqui - Page 243
Cotton is also grown in considerable quantities along the Fuerte, Mayo, and Yaqui rivers of the west coast, and in Guerrero, Oaxaca, Nayarit, Chiapas, ...

San Francisco - Page 172
the need for better railroad connections became more urgent, and in 1912 work was begun ou a line from Tampico to San Francisco, on the Interoceanic ...

Los Angeles, California - Page 1923
The Mexican Year Book is dedicated to the fulfillment of this object. Los Angeles, California, December 15, 1921. *&. KOBERT G. CLELAND.

Eagle Pass, Tex - Page 392
One leads to Monterey and the border towns of Laredo, Brownsville, and Eagle Pass, Tex., and the other to San Luis Potosi and across the rich tropical ...

Philadelphia - Page 418
to the South Sea; the whole being as laid down in Melish's map of the United States, published at Philadelphia, improved to the first of January, ...

Boston, Mass - Page 377
Mexico," published in the United States by Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston, Mass. It is on sale in Mexico City at the Sonora News Co., Calle de Gante ...

Uruapan - Page 394
Uruapan is the center of a considerable volume of business. Merchants are largely dependent upon the importers of Morelia, Mexico City, etc. ...

Tancitaro - Page 87
feet) in the state of Tlaxcala, the Cofre de Perote (13400 feet) in the state of Vera Cruz, and Tancitaro (12664 feet) are those of greatest height. ...

Houston - Page 180
Contracts have also been made with the great locomo-tive shops of Houston and Kingsville for the periodical repair of locomotives in groups of five ...

Brownsville, Texas - Page 156
are equally notable on the run be-tween Nuevo Laredo (opposite Laredo, Texas) or Matamoros (opposite Brownsville, Texas) and the capital. ...

Atoyac - Page 220
Its plants are located on the Atoyac and Los Molinos Rivers, in the State of Puebla and on the Rio Blanco and Atoyac in Vera Cruz. ...

Chapultepec - Page 56
Santa Anna's final stand was made in the castle of Chapultepec. But the 10000 men he had concentrated here were dislodged and driven in confusion into ...

Santo Domingo - Page 16
Most important of all, however, was Hispaniola or Santo Domingo, not inaptly called "the mother of the Spanish American Colonies. ...

Santa Barbara - Page 388
The Parral mining district includes the following municipalities: Parral, Minas Nuevas and Santa Barbara.

Los Reyes - Page 393
Four to five hours' ride by horseback to the north across the mountains lies Los Reyes, which is on the Zamora branch of the National Railways. ...

Penjamo - Page 172
The Pacific extension of the Mexican Cen-tral was connected with the Morelia branch of the old Mexican National by a line built from Penjamo to Ajuno ...

Guayaquil - Page 164
Even the cacao of Guayaquil and the copper of Coquimbo were shipped to Acapulco. and thence crossed the mountains by muleback clear to Vera Cruz—at $2 ...

El Salto - Page 171
This line was completed in 1913, and in 1919 a further extension of some thirty miles to El Salto was constructed ; but no attempt has been made to ...

Teotihuacán - Page 104
as the Great Temple of Tenochtitlán, the dead city of Teotihuacán, and other aboriginal monuments scattered about the southern part of Mex-ico. ...

Zitacuaro - Page 398
from Zitacuaro, branch line of National Railway, average time of trip 5 hours. Mascota, State of Jalisco; population, 6000; 130 miles (210 km. ...

Caracas - Page 193
Shipments of cocoa were made in later years from Caracas to Mexico and some traffic developed with Cuba.

Ameca - Page 382
Branch railway lines to Ameca, 56 miles (90 km.) ; to San Marcos, 29 miles (48 km.). Trolley ear service throughout city and to nearby suburbs. ...

Nogales, Ariz - Page 387
Canvassed in connection with Nogales, Ariz. The port of entry for Hermosillo and the rich State of Sonora. Worthy of the attention of most salesmen. ...

Benito Juárez - Page 60
The liberals, however, had found a real leader in the person of Benito Juárez. Taking up his headquarters at Vera Cruz he appealed to the Mexican ...

Nacozari - Page 218
Con-nected with the important copper camp of Nacozari by the Naco- zari Railroad. Chief exports and imports have direct relation to this and other ...

Kansas City - Page 379
From Ciudad Juarez, by Mexico Northwestern Railway, via Pearson and Madera; from Mexico City, by Mexican Central, fare $50.75 gold; from Kansas City, ...

El Higo - Page 392
Tampico Navigation Co.; weekly service to Panuco, Hacienda Ganahl, El Higo, and other points. Banks.—Tampico Banking Co. and Petroleum Bank & Trust Co ...

Valladolid - Page 39
Hidalgo suffered his first serious defeat ; and after losing much of his artillery and provisions, withdrew in a disorderly retreat to Valladolid.

Madrid - Page 34
The government at Madrid had already lost most of the prestige it had gained during the reign of Charles III. In 1790 the Nootka Sound controversy, ...

Manila - Page 27
of a richly laden galleon from Manila, carrying the stuffs of China and the East, and normally manned by a half dead, scurvy stricken crew. ...

Granada - Page 14
thread of all colors in skein are exposed for sale in one quarter of the market, which lias the appearance of the silk market at Granada, although the ...

York - Page 49
Poinsett, himself a Mason, displayed great activity in organizing York lodges and in building up that wing of the order, because its membership ...

London - Page 155
Far more than either Washington or New York in the United States, perhaps even more than London in England, Mex-ico City is the focus of the life of ...

Roma - Page 160
Greater comfort at less cost can be obtained in some of the excellent family hotels and boarding houses of the Juárez and Roma districts, ...

Newport - Page 158
Nevertheless, one need not, and therefore ought not, equip himself as if for a sojourn at Newport or Palm Beach. ...

Salamanca - Page 13
"There is one square twice as large as that of Salamanca, sur-rounded by porticoes, where are daily assembled more than 60000 souls, engaged in buying ...

Coquimbo - Page 164
Even the cacao of Guayaquil and the copper of Coquimbo were shipped to Acapulco. and thence crossed the mountains by muleback clear to Vera Cruz—at $2 ...

Bolton - Page 80
Bolton and Marshall, Colonization of North America (Expansion of New Spain). Bourne, Spain in America (Colonial Institutions and Policy). ...

Seville - Page 26
Until 1720, Seville was the only city in Spain from which this commerce might be carried on; while Vera.

La Fortuna - Page 392
La Boia de Oro, La Fortuna. Note.—Tepic is in the midst of a rich agricultural region. A fair business is done and some of the merchants are in a ...