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Blocks of petrified wood lie in the foreground. The mound of sand is bluish-green in color at the top and at the base snow-white

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out means previously provided, with the possible exception of a few strong, skilled mechanics. For men of means there is always room for investments in mines and agricultural lands.

Rest, Peace and Health

If your friends, and perhaps your physician, tell you that you are not looking well, that you have an incipient trouble which may lead to some dread disease, if you are tired clear through and your nights have become wakeful hours filled with terrifying forebodings, arrange your affairs for an indefinite absence, file your business troubles away, say a cheerful good-bye to your friends and go where you can easily find rest, peace and the greatest thing in the world, sound health.

Do not fear that the life will be too rough for you and that you will find no congenial companionship. Your life will

be what you make it there as elsewhere, and you will find people equally desirable as yourself. Do not conjure up ideas about the bleakness and forbiddingness of the country. If you are open-minded and particularly if you are a lover of nature in all its never-ending moods, you will find a country surprisingly different from the one you leave, but one that you will in time learn to love not only for its own singular beauties but also from gratitude.

If you wait until your health and strength are too far gone, you will be a miserable, lonesome object, but if you go while you have a good foundation of strength to build on, you will be glad alone through watching your rebuilding strength, your quick return to unblemished health.

Be patient, study nature in the open, and she will reward you according to your deserts.

AMERICAN COFFEE CULTURE IN MEXICO

BY

JAMES D. COOK

Photographs copyrighted, 1906, by the author

EXICO'S coffee-produ

口 cing districts, so far as

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developed, are located

about as follows: On the west coast in the States of Jalisco, Colima and Michoacan, in the northeastern part: in the States of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas, in the eastern and southeastern section: the States of Vera Cruz, Tabasco, Chiapas and that part of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Oaxaca, and the southern part of the States of Puebla and Oaxaca. In the centralnorthern part of the latter state is a comparatively small area of land said by experienced coffee-growers to excel in natural advantages all coffee districts in Mexico, and even marked on some maps as better than any known coffeeproducing lands on the American conti

nent.

In the heart of this particular district, natural shade, plenty of mountain

streams giving abundant clear water for a machinery house and all necessary uses, sufficient rains, southern exposure, and a high mountain range, north and west, to protect a plantation from storms and frosts, furnish an ideal basis for successful culture. Given these conditions, the rest should be easy to successful endeavor, but is it?

Assuming favorable natural conditions, management is the prime requisite for success. Labor in Mexico is the manager's nightmare. On one plantation the nightmare ceased to torture when the then inexperienced manager was directed to, and did, remove the cause by excluding all liquor from his property and by inaugurating a free-school system, selling merchandise at cost of service, caring for the physical condition of employees, building comfortable houses, making

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AN AMERICAN COFFEE PLANTER'S HOME IN MEXICO The coffee may be seen growing several hundred feet up the mountain just beyond the house. The top of the mountain is obscured by the clouds which fall below it

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