Mexico? Si, Señor (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Mexico? Si, Señor Mexican Central Railway, the main line of which runs through the centre of the country miles, from Juarez, the border city on the Rio Grande, opposite El Paso, Texas, to the capital. One branch or division of the road, 415 miles in length, connects the capital with Tampico, the only good harbor on the Gulf of Mexico. Another division reaches out 161 miles westward from the main line to Guadalajara, the second largest city in the country, and will, one of these days, be extended to the Pacific. Two other branches serve the two great mining cities, Guanajuato and Pachuca. This great central thoroughfare is the principal railway of the Republic, and the only line of standard gauge connecting the city of Mexico with the United States. The Mexican Central Railway Company operates, at the presenttime, miles of road, passing through eleven states and the Federal District, and serving cities, towns, and states which contain over people, more than half the population of the whole country. In road-bed, bridges, and equipment this line offers the best, its whole management is first-class in every respect. Whoever makes the trip to and from Mexico over this line only will see a large part of the country, and learn a vast amount about its people and their institutions. The cities and towns mentioned here lying beyond the capital, south or east or west, are reached by the National, the Mexican, the Interoceanic, or the Valley railways, or by the street car lines from the city. From among the many excursions made and places visited we have selected for comment only those which are most inter esting and inviting to the average tourist, and it has been our aim to say about those only just enough to convince any one who is fond of travel, who has a desire to see this beautiful country and the picturesque people who live in it, that the few scenes referred to are, of themselves alone, worth a much longer journey and a much greater expenditure of time, money, and trouble than they cost. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.