Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1893 — A MEXICAN COLONY. [ARTICLE]

A MEXICAN COLONY.

A Chicago Syndicate Will Embark in the Enterprise. A dispatch from the City of Mexico, dated July 17, says: Under a colonization concession granted to Joseph P. Portlense, 100,000 acres of land have been taken upon the Isthmus of Tehauntepee by a syndicate of Chicago. Mr. Portlense has left for St. Louis, Chicago and New York to confer with his principals, and will return within two months to make arrangements for the reception of colonists. The land is now being surveyed off into plantations of from 200 to 2.000 acres.