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offered as a substitute a plan which answers the same purpose and still 

 leaves the investments and enterprises in Colorado and New Mexico in- 

 tact and unaffected in any way. Then again, from a commercial point of 

 view, the building of this international dam free of cost to Mexico will be 

 worth many, many times the amount in the way of increased trade. The 

 relations between the two countries are becoming closer and closer every 

 year. Mexico has laid her resources at the feet of those who care to 

 enter and develop them, and Americans are now investing in all kinds 



RIVER AND SITE IN THE DISTANCE. 



of enterprises in the Republic. They are well treated and are making 

 money, as a general rule. The sons and daughters of many of the best 

 families of the Republic are being educated in colleges of the United 

 States, and schools for learning the English language are to be found in 

 a large number of the cities and towns of Mexico. As stated in the be- 

 ginning of this article, these people like American goods and the United 

 States is now receiving a large portion of this trade which formerly 

 went to England and Germany. Therefore, why should not these friend- 

 ly relations be enconraged and this commerce increased? 



To such proportions has this trade grown that England is being 

 alarmed and is making a desperate struggle to retain it, as is shown by 

 the latest scheme of the Rothschilds in their recent proposition to Mexi- 

 co to assume the public debt of the Republic and have the exclusive priv- 

 ilege to colonize the unoccupied lands of the country, receiving therefor 

 a certain sum for each family of emigrants and requiring that all public 

 lands be withdrawn from the market, and certain other conditions? With 



