Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 175, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1921 — Page 10

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MEXICAN LAND DEALS OFTEN HOLD SNARE Americans Warned Against Purchase Before Examining Tracts Carefully. ARID ACRES OFFERED MEXICO CITY, Mexico, Dec. 2. Americans who wish to invest in land in Mexico are now the game stalked by innumerable swindlers, according to a real estate man here. He says that Americans should be warned that it would be folly to buy land here without having seen it. Beefore completing purchase and paying out money, he says, the American Investor should examine the tracts carefully and make Inquiry regarding titles. Persons who have disregarded this precaution have In many cases fallen victims to rogues. Sharpers are well aware of the great interest manifested in the United States in the possibility of profitable investment in land here. In addition to the thousands of Americans who are thinking of coming here after recognition, there are other thousands who are convinced that the value of Mexican lands must advance from the present low levels and that this ofTers opportunity to Invest savings In a way that would bring substantial returns within a few years. Promoters who formerly formed wildcat oil companies, gold and silver mining companies and similar stock selling enterprises have now turned their attention to land. They or their agents are offering “farms In Mexico” in many parts of the United States on beguiling terms. MUCH ARID LAN'S OFFERED. Land such as these promoters want is as easy to get as mining claims where there is no mineral, or oil leases where there Is no oiL Mexico is a land of wide expanse. Big as Texas is, Mexico Is larger. Wide as the arid tracts in Texas are, the arid tracts In Mexico ere wider. Some of these arid tracts may be put under water In years to come, but the development of a supply of water for irrigation would call for the expenditure of great sums of money. Persons who make purchases In such tracts may wait a long time before they could sell their land for even enough to get back their original Investments, or be forced to spend additional money to save their Investments from total loss. Land along the rivers of Mexico, which are few In number when the size of the country Is considered. Is not easily parted with by the owners. They want cash and do not readily consider the promoter's usual terms, for they konw that their land Is located where irrigation is possible, If dams and ditches have not been built already. IRRIGATION' DIFFICULT. Away from the streams, which usually are mere threads of water when compared with the majestic streams of the United States, Irrigation is far off. Sometimes the rolling nature of the land makes Irrigation Impossible, even though water were near. Sometimes the land, although apparently prepared by nature to make Irrigation easy, is too far from water to make Irrigation anything more than a distant prospect—ln ages to come, when swindler and victim have passed away and Mexico has Its expected population of 200.000.00 C. Tha roguish" promoter who comes to Mexico, or is a product of the soil, usually lacks money with which to acquire really desirable tracts, or, if he has money. Intends to keep It and add to his fortune by disposing of land at a good price which would not even be an acceptable present. After the rains In Mexico, which come in the summer and fall months, even the bleak mountainsides become green with verdure, and this condition continues for.some time In sections which at other periods of*the year are dry and unattractive. Persons coming to Mexico after the rains could be deceived easily as to conditlotns. especially If they are not experienced farmers.

GREEN TRACTS ENDLESS. These tracts which grow green after the rains are endless. Persons touring Mexico In automobli s pass through such land for days, seeing only occasional haciendas or farm houses, where there are springs or wells or dams holding in storage the water flowing from the hills after rains. These Immense tracts are suitable for cattle raising, but a person buying land that has not been Improved would find It necessary to go to considerable expense In providing water for cattle. This can be done by building dams to hold rain water, but the buyer must be certain that his land contains s suitable location for a dam. Buyers of small tracts who do not take the trouble to examine the property before purchasing it might not And It possible even to store water in this way. Farming operations would call for the storage of water on a large scale. This would necessitate the employing of engineers to study the land and devise ways of storing the water In Bncb a way that It could be used for Irrigation. The average man could not Jump In and build a dam which would hold enough water to supply the needs of a farm. It Is not hard for a promoter to get hold of 50 000 or 100.000 acres of land which, under present conditions, Is an elephant on the hands of the owner And lend of that sort Is the kind that Is bein'* offered In the United States In mai;y esses. This has resulted In many complaints. Thtre is good land In every state in Mexico, with natural locations for Irrigation dams which would supply large tracts. Some such dams have been completed, others have been started, and still others are under consideration. One of the largest dams In the world, built for the purpose of storing water for Irrigation, Is In Mexico. It is In the state of Chihuahua. But the surrounding land la not being given away for a song. Instead, alert men, with an eye to making money, are studying the possibility of land forty or fifty miles away. Even this distant land la not being given away. Conditions In Mexico are not as they were in the United States when Uncle

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Sam gave away a 160-acre homestead to any one who would put a plow Into he ground. The good land which Is ofTered to foreigners Is to be sold, and the men who are doing the selling know clearly the present value of the land and its probable future value. Any bargain that Is offered calls for close scrutiny, for there are few bargain sales in Mexico. The price of land is .wer than in the United States because markets are fewer, transportation unde veloped and general conditions not so much to the advantage of the farmer as on the other side of the border. If conditions were the same In Mexico, as In the United States land would be just as high. Another Indication that there are no great expanses of vacant ownerless, tillable land In Mexico, such as there were in the United States when farms were gisen away or sold for almost nothing Is the fact that the Mexican government. In its efforts to give farms to the landless poor, is compelled to take possession of targe estates and divide them among the ne"dy, finding no other way. The American coming here must either buy Improved land, which is held nearly always at the highest price that existing conditions permit, or take unimproved land at a lower price. The improved land is usually convenient to the railroads. giving the farmer access to the markees that exist. The unimproved land is remote from the railroads, and the farmer must devise means of getting his products to the points at which transportation is offered, while waiting for the building of more railroads. In either case the man who comes to Mexico must have capital and caution.

POTTERY PLANTS ARE NOW BUSY Activities in Ohio Valley Reported Best of Year. EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio, Dec. 2.—Activity In the seinl-porcelain potteries the Ohio Valley is more prononced now than at any time this year. The No. 2 plant of the Hall China Company is now in operation, which leaves only one plant idle In the district. This *unlt, however, is controlled by an Interest that Is operating its other unit to capacity. There Is no loss of kilns this season on account of scarcity of fuel, as most manufacturers have Installed oil-burning systems, doing away with coal and gas. Dinnerware manufacturers are booking business for brst quarter delivery in 1922, the volume being much larger from some distributing interests than had been expected. Stocks in the hands of Jobbers and retailers are said to be rather moderate. There will b e two pottery expositions parly in 1922. The first of these will be held in Pittsburgh In January, and when the displays close there they will be moved to Chicago, where In February the first exposition of the kind will be opened. The annual meeting of the United States Potters’ Association will be held In Washington, beginning Dec. 6. For the last six years the annual meetings have been held in New York. B. I. Salisbury of the Onondaga China Company, Syracuse, X. Y.. will be succeeded as president by Frank P. Judge of the National China Company, Salinevllle, Ohio. Charles F. Goodwin of this city, will bo re-elected secretary treasurer. —Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company. rush for buried gold. WASHINGTON. Dec. 2. Governor pie have gone to Bisceglie, in Apulia, nd engaged in desultory digging, since *n archeololst announced his belief that the ancient Romans had burled there treasure worth *4,000,000.

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Marshal Ferdinand Foch, leader of the allied armies during the war, Is now touring 12,000 miles through the West as a guest of the American Legion. Tha tour will consume twenty-two days, during which time lie will decorate many American war veterans. Sergeant Richard W. O’Neill of the Sixty-Ninth Regiment was the first to be honored by Marshal Foch. Among the cities the M arshal will visit are Spokane, Seattle, ban Francisco, New Orleans, Montgomery Atlanta, Charlotte, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec and Springfield.

Two Given Fines and Days on ‘Tiger* Charge Georgy Billings, 1928 Lewis strset, and John Redman. 1104 East Nineteenth street, both negroes, received heavy fines In city court this morning for operating a “blind tiger.” Mrs. Bettle Berry, 70, 1104 East Nineteenth street, nogress, whs discharged on a similar charge. The police raided the Berry home a few days ago and found a small quantity of “white mule." The Berry woman disclaimed knowledge of it but her daughter told the police, testimony showed, that Redman was in the habit of selling whisky for Billings. The police arrested the.-e men at Nineteenth and Yandes streets. J dge Walter Pritchard fined Billings SKO and costs and senten'ed lilm to serve forty days on the State Farm, ltedman

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BAD WINTER COMING. LONDON, Dec 2.—Local weather sharps predict that the coming winter will be the most severa the world has seen In thirty years. PLAGUE IN INDIA. CALCUTTA, Dec. 2.—A violent plague is raging about Jubbulpore In the central provinces. Dispatches received here ! say the natives are “dying like files.”

LONDON LOOKS AND WONDERS AT DAIRYSHOW Enterprising British Woman Makes Many Articles of ( Rabbit Fur. LONDON, Dec. 2. —Hundreds of Londoners streamed recently into Agricultural Hall, Islington, to see the Dairy Show and experienced many of the delights of the! citizen suddenly transported into the country. The time-honored joke of the country cousin who came “oop to Lunnun to see t’ sights,” and mistook Buckingham Palace for Scotland Yard was reversed when town-bred people inspected the machinery used in modern dairy produce and found It as intricate as a jigsaw puzzle. Amateur butter-making contests interested the greatest number of spectators They never seemed to tire of watching the lasses in mob caps, fresh from dairy schools, who were given pails of cream and churns and told to make butter in certain forms In two hours. The buttei was sold, with little jars of junket and cream, as fast as the judges could pass It. Girls showed the way to make scone* from separated milk and flour, and in the Gilbey Hall a man trussed fowls for demonstration at regular intervals. Cas cades of milk flowed at the rate of 500 gallons an hour through the pasteurizing machines and from motor-milked dummy cows. Rabbit furs for women were exhibited by a woman who last year started to dress rabbit-skins for a firm and then began to make the furs into different articles for sale, until now she .’a doing a steadly increasing business in coats, bags, slippers, hats, rugs, stoles, powder puffs and hatpin tops, all made from the skins. “There are, In fact,” she said, “few general utility articles that 1 cannot make from a rabbit’s skin.” The bird section was one of the successes of the show. There were all kinds of curious domestic birds from the Polish

THE LITTLE SHOP K. F. JOHNSTON CO. - —-Corner 34th and Illinois Streets ========= Gur Lease Expires the First of the Year $25,000.00 WORTH OF HIGH-GRADE MERCHANDISE WILL BE CLOSED OUT Every fixture, showcases, mirrors, tables, shelving, everything to be sold. The prices we have placed on each garment and article will do the work. Hats, Tams, Sailors, Gloves Corsets, Underwear and Hosiery, Dresses, Aprons, Petticoats, Gowns, Flannelette Gowns’, Pajamas, Hand-Made Pillow Slips, Bedspreads, Handkerchiefs and Gifts, Greeting Cards’ Tree Decorations, Seals. We mention only a few of the great values.

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hen, with a white crest that resembled a pompadour head-dress, to a West Indies black duck that looked green when It moved; but there was not an ugly duckling among them. Odd Shopping Tour H a s Unhappy Close Asa climax of a foraging expedition for clothing conducted in a home at 344 North California street, Loretta Byrd, negress, giving her address as 1130 Brook j street, is in the city prison clad only in a bathrobe and a pair of shoes. The police were called to the California street addresl late last night on ; the report that a man was burglarizing j the house. Upon their Investigation the j “man” was found to be Loretta. She j had entered the house while Its occupants j were in the rear. Going upstairs she 1 made a bundle of the available cloth 1 j ! and she started to depart, when the of- ; fleers appeared . She is charged with vagrancy. PREDICT ANGLO-FRENCH WAR. LONDON, Dee. 2.—Heavy “matrimoers of the Turkish Nationalists were not surprised by the fact that the treaty concluded between France and Turkey had caused great objections In England. In fact, Nationalists leaders predict that, within ten years, France and England will be at war over their conflicting interests, in Asia Minor. EXECUTION SLOW BUT SURE. THRAPSTON, England, Dec. 2 Herve, a double murderer, heard the guillotine scaffold set up twice for his execution and each time a stay saved him. The third time the scaffold was erected, he said he hoped there would be no further delay*. There wasn’t. FIVE-YEAR-OLD FLIER. PARIS, Dec. 2.—A 5-year-old boy kept begging Sadie Lecointe, the famous airman, for a ride. Finally Lecointe consented. “When we came down,” said LeooLnte later, “he gave me h—l because I did not go high enough.” TITANIC SURVIVOR SUICIDE. LONDON, Dec. 2.—William A. Lucas, who was saved from the Titanic, but who acted peculiarly thereafter, shot himself dead in a train traveling from Leeds to London.

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Chicago Operatic Music Heard Here Snatches of opera transmitted from a wireless telephone station in Chicago were plainly herd by a crowd of wireless enthusiasts who attended the open meeting and demonstration of the Indiana Radio Association at the Boys’ Club last j evening. Phonograph music from Pilts- ■ burgh and phonograph and piano selections from the station of an Indianapolis amateur also were, reproduced. The music was made audible all over the room by the use of a inagnavox Instrument. FT. HARRISON NEEDS WORKMEN. There are a number of openings for plumbers, steamfitters and steamflitters’ helpers at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, according to an announcement made toda by Henry M. Trimpe, secretary of the civil service board, 421 Federal building. AnT>! I "Hnn b’nnks and full information may be obtained from the Mr. Trimpe.

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