Photo by Shirley C. Hit 



A VARIETY OF CACTUS WHICH IS A SOURCE OF MUCH ANNOYANCE TO STOCK AND 

 TO RIDERS IN CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO 



Any part of the bush will come away freely, and a slight touch will serve to attach 

 almost any amount of such cactus to the person. The process of removal is usually long 

 and painful. 



unending - summer — everywhere you turn 

 there is contrast, high lights and deep 

 shadows. Fitting indeed is Ober's beau- 

 tiful apostrophe to this wonderful region : 

 "Mexico lies at the meeting-place of 

 two zones — the Temperate and the Tor- 

 rid — and from its geographical position, 

 combined with its altitudes, possesses a 

 greater variety of soil, surface, and vege- 

 tation than any equal area of contiguous 

 "territory in the world. Basking in the 

 sunshine of the tropics, her head pillowed 

 in the lap of the North, her feet resting 

 at the gateway of the continents, her 

 snowy bosom rising to the clouds, she 

 rests serene in the majesty of her might. 

 She guards vast treasures of gold and 

 silver ; emeralds and opals adorn her 

 brow ; while the hem of her royal robes, 

 dipped in the seas of two hemispheres, is 

 embroidered in pearls and the riches of 

 the sea. 



"Mother of western civilization ! 

 Cradle of the American race ! A thou- 

 sand years have been gathered into the 

 sheaf of time since her first cities were 

 built. When the Norsemen coasted our 

 western shores she had villages and 

 towns, white-walled temples, and spread- 

 ing palaces. When the Pilgrims landed 

 at Plymouth Rock, a hundred years al- 

 ready had passed since the soldiers of 

 Cortes had battled with the hosts of 

 Montezuma. In no country in the world 

 can you pass so rapidly from the blazing 

 shores of the heated tropics to the region 

 of perpetual winter, from the land of the 

 palm and the vine to the land of the 

 lichen and the pine." 



ONE-FOURTH AS LARGE AS THE UNITED 

 STATES 



Mexico has an area approximately one- 

 fourth of that of the United States, a 



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