Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Mexican Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Mexican Statistics.

There are ten volcanoes in Mexico. Mexico has fifty-nine lakes and great lagoons. Mexico has vast deposits of onyx and marble. Slavery was fully abolished in Mexico in 1837. Coahuila coal Is exported to the United States. The army of Mexico comprises about. 40.000 men. The area of Mexico is about 750,000 square miles. The ‘‘valley’* of Mexico is 7,500 feet above the sea level. Mexico is about ten times larger than Great Britain. Mexico has a coast of over 6,000 miles. • Cotton factories in Mexico employ over 25.000 people. —* ;