A. B. C. Conference, 73. Aculco, Battle of, 39. Agriculture, 239-255; normal
totals, 239; cereals, 240; sugar cane, 241; legumes, 241; coffee and cocoa, 242; alcoholic prod- ucts, 242; industrial products, 242; vegetables, 244; fruits, 245; comparative table, 245; table of distribution, 246; live stock, 246; live stock value table, 248; live stock distribution table, 248; forests, 249; table showing dis- tribution of timber lands, 250; hindrances to progress, 250; rain- fall, 250; irrigation, 251; land titles, 254.
Agriculture and climate, 94. Alcohol, cane, 241; maguey liquors,
242; percentage value (table), 246; consumption of discouraged, 353.
Almonte, General, 61.
Altamirano, Ignacio, 360. Alvarado, Governor, 72, 76, 364. American Red Cross, 74.
American Smelting and Refining Co.,
Caja de Prestamos, 252. Calendar (Aztec), 12. California, settlement of, 33. Calleja, 39.
Calles, Plutarco, 76, 77. Carlotta, wife of Maximilian, 62. Carranza, Venustiana, 72-79; influence on education, 363; proposes single bank of issue, 330; and oil in- dustry, 299-303.
Casa de Contratacion, 24. Cattle raising, 246-248.
Census, 1910, 345.
Cereals, most important, 239-240. Chamber of Deputies, 99-100. Chavez, Ezequiel A., 360. Charles V, 16.
Charles III, influence on Mexico, 31. Chichimecs, 9-10.
Columbus, New Mexico, 75. Communication, early methods of, 163- 166; railroads, 167-188; facilities at Mexican ports, 189-190. Communications and Public Works, 105, 111.
Commerce, foreign, 191-219; colonial,
191-193; national development, 205; under the early Republic, 194; the Diaz régime and after, 197; charts and tables, 210-212; suggestions to expedite, 212-215; consular offices, 216-217; ports of entry, 218-219.
Comonfort, Ignacio, 58-59.
Complications with the United States, 75.
Comte, August, 356.
Concessions, 222-238; definition, 222;
power of granting, 223; method of obtaining, 224; forfeiture, 225; restrictions on foreigners, 225; common provisions, 226; railroad, 226; waters, 233. Congress, 100.
Conquest (Spanish), 16-20. Constitution of 1824, 46.
Constitution of 1857, 58, 60, 114, 359. Constitution of 1917, 112; translation of, 116-153.
Constitutional Progressive party, 71. Consular offices, Mexican in U. S.,
216; American in Mexico, 217. Conventionalists, 73. Convention of La Soledad, 61. Convention of London, 61.
Copper (see under mining).
Corral, Ramon, 68-69.
Cortes, Hernando, 9-17.
Cotton, 243.
Cotton manufacturing, labor in, 350.
Council of the Indies, 24.
Court (Aztec), 12.
Covarrubias, Jose Diaz, 360.
Cowdray, Lord, 72.
Crop production, 207.
Crude oil (see under petroleum). Currency, 328.
Customs receipts, 207; in 1918, 208.
Denouncements of mining properties, 257, 273.
Department of Communications and Public Works, 105.
Department of Industry, Commerce and Labor, 104.
Department of Fomento, 104. Department of Justice, 103. Department of Public Instruction and the Fine Arts, 103.
Department of War and Marine, 105. Deputies, Chamber of, 99, 100. De Soto, Hernando, 20.
Diaz, President Porfirio, 64-69; prob- lems of régime, 64; establishment of order, 65; wins good will of other nations, 66; economic prog- ress under, 66; elements of weak- ness, 67; collapse, 69; presidential terms, 84, 85; irrigation fran- chises under, 93; importation of food under, 94; foreign enterprise in time of, 95; revival of industry under, 271; progress in concession regulations, 237.
Doheny, Edward L., 293. Dye woods, exports of, 249.
Educational System, 338-373.
The human factor, 355; Gallic influence, 356; class distinctions, 356; early aims, 357; progress under Diaz, 359; increase in num- ber of government schools, 360; primary schools, 360; statistics, 361; recent aims and results, 362; influence of Carranza régime, 363; National Preparatory School, 363; University of Mexico, 364; administration and control, 365; plants and maintenance, 368; curricula and text-books, 369; teachers and pupils, 370. Election of 1870, 63.
Electric companies, list of, 221. Encomiendo, System of, 27. English interests, 50.
Entry into Mexico, 158.
Examination of merchandise, 213.
Expenditures, federal (see under Pub- lic Finance), 321-326.
Exports, contest for control, 201; in recent years, 206; growth of,
Exports to the United States, 1911- 1921 chart and table, 210; by customs districts, 1920, 212.
Farias, Gomez, 48, 52. Ferdinand VII, 43. First Mexican Empire, 44. French Intervention, 61.
Finances, 321-337. Federal budget, 321; following Madero, 322; tables, 323-326; national debt, 327; currency, 328; banks and banking, 329; chief foreign banks in the capital, 331; Obregon's decree, 331-335; Comisión Monetaria, balance
sheet, 336-337. Finance, Department of, 105. Fomento, Department of, 104. Foreign Affairs, Department of, 103. Foreign trade (see under commerce). Foreigners: Status of, 114-5, 238;
forbidden to hold certain forms of property, 107; "undesirable,'
Franchises (see under concessions). Fruits (agriculture), 245.
Gadsden Purchase, 57.
Glidden, Capt. George, 290.
Gold (see under mining).
Governors, State, list of, 111.
Government, state, relation to federal,
Gonzales, Abraham, 69-73. Gonzales, Pablo, 73, 77. Government (Aztec), 11 Government (Spanish Colonial), 23. Governments since Independence, 82. Government, 99-152.
Querétaro constitution, 99; legis- lative power, 99; congress, 100; senate, 101; permanent com- mission, 101; powers of president, 101; no vice-president, 102; veto power, 102; executive depart- ments, 193; judicial system, 105; article twenty-seven 106-112. Green Cananea Copper Co., 275. Grijalva, 17.
"Grito de Dolores," 38. Guayule, 243, 244.
Guanajuato, capture of, 38. Guerrero, 42-48, passim.
Guzman, Nuño de, 20.
Labor conditions, 338-373. Labor, status of, 109.
Occupation tables, 341-343; of women and children, 344; agri- cultural, 345; wages in agricul- ture, 346; peonage, 346; tropical Mexico, 347; temperate Mexico, 348; in mining industries, 348, 260-262, 279; in transportation, 249; industrial, 350; legislation, 351; organizations, 352; charac- teristics of, 339-341. Laguna District, 94. Land titles, 254-255. Las Casas, Bartolomé, 28.
Law for the Administration of Jus- tice, 59.
Mexican National Railways, 169. Mexican Northern Power Co., 221. Mexican Petroleum Co., 294 et sqq. Mexican Southern Railway, 173. Mina, Francisco Xavier, 42. Mineral resources, 95. Mining, 256-289; under Spanish rule, 256; code, 256; map, 258; mineral distribution, 259; colonial labor, 260; machinery and methods, 262; production, 265; the nineteenth century (1810-1910), 265; en- trance of foreign companies, 267; investors in the United States, 267; misfortune and decay, 268; under Diaz, 271; legislation, 272; foreign investments, 274; in- crease in production of gold and silver, table, 274; other minerals, 275; since 1910, 276; increased taxes, 277; labor problems, 279; tables, 280-284; miscellaneous in- formation, 285-289.
Packing and marking of merchandise, 213.
Pan American Railway, 169. Paredes, General, 52, 54, 55. Patriot Execution, 40. Pearson, Sir Weetman, 294. Pedraza, 47, 48. Pelaez, Manuel, 73. Peña, Manuel de la, 56. Pershing, General, 75. Petroleum, increase in yield, 208. Petroleum, 290-320.
Early history, 290; Boston-Mexi- can Oil Company, 290; map, Pánuco-Tuxpam fields, 291; com- mercial production, 293; large scale production, 295; effects of revolutions, 295; taxation, 299; table of duties, 300; nationaliza- tion, 301; Article 27, 301; ren- tals, 302; recognized fields, 303- 305; table of productive wells,
305; table of production, 306; list of chief companies, 307; table of exports by companies, 308; comparative table of production, 309; potential output, 309; graph of production, 1901-1920, 310; table of productive wells, 310; summary of abandoned wells, 311; transportation and storage, 311- 314; refineries, companies and lo- cations, 315; exports and con- sumption tables, 315-317; the in- dustry in 1921, 317.
Plan of Agua Prieta, 78. Plan of Ayutla, 58.
Plan of Casa Mata, 44.
Safety of travelers, 154.
Samples, introduction of, 214. San Jacinto, battle of, 51.
Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de, 44-55 passim.
Santa Isabel, massacre of, 75. Secretaries of State, 111.
Selling terms, 212.
Shipments, to interior points, 215;
documents, 214, 215.
Sierra, Justo, 360, 364.
Siete Leyes, 52.
"Sights,
Silver, as a motive for expansion, 32
(see also under mining).
Sisal hemp (see Henequen). Slidell, John, 54.
Southern Pacific, 88.
Southern Pacific of Mexico 78. Spain, economic policy of, 26. Spaniards, 9, 10.
Spanish Revolution of 1820, 42. Spanish settlements, 20, 22. Stamp charges, 213.
Standing Committee, 113.
State Governors, 111.
States and Territories, 97.
Suárez Piño, 71.
Schools (see under education). Senate, 101.
Stock raising (see cattle raising). Sugar Cane, 241. Sugar, 241.
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