Enterprise in Mexico.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 472, 17 May 1890, Page 5

Enterprise in Mexico.

President Diaz will live in history as the regenerator of Mexico. His career shows that the world cannot dispense just yet with great men. A recent traveller, Mr W. R. Lawson, shows that Mexico has made more progress iu the last three or four years than Spain has in thirty. Diaz is a groat worker. He began his Presidential career with the determinatiou to turn the illimitable natural wealth of Mexico to account, and the country is already one of the most progressive in the New World. Mexico is a promised land of the railway engineer and the captain of industry. Urban Mexico i 3 half Spanish ; and in the old country, Spain itself, many wish for the advent of a great Minister of the stamp of Diaz. For the present, the most enterprising people in Spain are English and Germans. The creators of the Rio Tinto mining enterprise, as it at present exists, were Messrs Lundheim andDoetsch, the former of whom is a native of Hesse-Darmstadt, who left his home about twenty or twenty-eight years ago. These men ‘ have built railways, opened up mines, laid out vineyards, developed marble quarries,and turned their busy hands to everything they found an opening for. The Huelva of to-day is their creation.’ Some years ago Huelva was an insignificant fishing village. It has now a population of 20,090.