Mexico Today

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Excerpt from Mexico Today: As Seen by Our Representative on a Hurried Trip Completed October 30, 1920 All were very much impressed by the sincere expressions of good will for the United States and the expressed desire to do business with our merchants and manufacturers. We began there to revise our opinion that the Mexican people fostered a dislike for Americans. This idea was largely due to incorrect and exaggerated items which have been published from time to time in the Press of both countries. The following day we were taken for a visit to the principal industries and places of interest. It was the party's first trip through a typically Mexican city and we were agreeably surprised to find on every hand evidences of work and industry. There were practically no signs of revolution or warfare. The street cars were running, factories, foundries and mines in full operation and their stores all open and apparently doing a brisk business. We visited what is probably the largest single plant here, the Compania Fundidora de Fierro y Acero de Monterey, S. A. It has a capital of ten million dollars and carries an account with a prominent New York bank. In this plant they are very busy making a number of products, including bolts, nuts, pipe, steel railroad rails, car wheels, special castings for school desks, etc., and also rebuilding railroad locomotives, many of which were practically wrecked during the revolution. This plant was formerly operated by American labor, but now it is run almost entirely by Mexican labor. The skill displayed by some of these men at the furnaces and in the rolling mill is of the highest standard. The company employs over 2, 000 people in this plant and the wages run from 2 1/2 pesos ($1.25)for common labor to 10 to 12 pesos($5 to$6) for skilled labor per day. In the nut and bolt department we found boys and girls of 13 to 18 years of age operating some of the machines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.