BIG LOSS TO
INDUSTRY BY
REVOLUTION
JUAREZ, Mex., May 8 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Dreams of Dr. Francis
S. Pearson for the establishment of
an industrial empire in northern Mex
ico continue to be shattered. Dr. Pear
son, who was a victim of the tor
pedoed Lusitania while going to Eng
land to finance Mexican companies
of which he was the head, planned to
build a chain pf lumber mills, box fac
tories, pulp and paper mills in north
western Chiahuahua which would em
ploy thousands of Mexican laborers
and would supply tjie American mar
ket with lumber products at a low
cost.
Organizing the Mexico North West
ern Railroad Company in the United
States and Canada, Dr. Pearson took
over the immense lumber concessions
owned by the late Colonel William G.
Greene, found er the Cananea cop
per camp. The old Rio Grande and
Pacific railroad which was built by
Colonel Greene was also purchased
and rebuilt as the Mexico North
Western railroad from Juarez to Chi
huahua City by way of Casas Grandes,
Pearson, Madera, and Temosachic.
A million dollar lumber plant was
built at Madera, which Was founded
by Dr. Pearson. Another of almost
equal size was built at Pearson,
named in his honor, and a third big
mill and box factory erected In El
Paso to mill the product of the Pear
son mills in transit in order to obtain
the lower freight rates. The Madera
mills were to supply the Mexican
trade with lumber, box shook and
lumber byproducts.
Soon after the Mexico North West
ern railroad was rebuilt, the Madera
and Pearson mills completed and the
factory erected here, the Madcro revo
lution started. Although tho Mader
istas did not harm the mills, the revo
lutionary bands destroyed practically
all railroad bridges, the Diaz federal
troops confiscated the rolling stock
and locomotives an the mills were
forced to close.
Other revolutions which followed
continued destroying the railroad and
confiscating the equipment until the
entire system was forced to suspend
operation. Then in 113, Maximo Cas
tillo and his bandits set fire to the
Cumbre tunnel a few minutes before
a passenger train plunged into it.
Sixty were lost in the tunnel and the
operation of trains from the border
to the state capital made impossible
as the tunnel was never rebuilt.
The Madera lumber mills were
forced to close as the destruction of
Cumbre tunnel blocked shipments of
its products south to the Mexican
markets. For three years these big,
modern mills lay idle. It was planned
to resume operations there January 1,
1920 but a fire from the power plant
destroyed the greater part of the
plant and it is doubtful if the mills
will be rebuilt.
The Pearson properties in northern
Mexico were estimated to be worth
$40,000,000 gold. Since the were es
tablished the company is said to have
suffered $5,000,000 in actual losses
and many times more in loss of profits
due to suspended operations.
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TOMMY VAN ERMEN IS
ANXIOUS TO COME HOME
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Our former townsman, Thomas J
Van Ermen, who is a jackie on the
U. S. S. Douglas, writes to Dewey
Metzdorf from Brest, France, that he
expects to be home soon. He says:
“Hello, Dewey: I often wanted to
write you, but somehow your last
name slipped my memory. Had a
letter from Genevieve Rosswog telling
me about your returning to Cordova
after you had got out of service. How
did you like it, Dewey? I bet you
were glad to see Cordova again. You
can consider yourself lucky that you
never got this far; so you would never
get back. That’s the way it seems to
me. They keep up our hopes of seeing
the States by telling us we will leave
here in two or three weeks. When
that time passes they put It ahead
another two or three weeks. Our ex
ecutive officer told us we would leave
here for the Azores islands April 20,
and would leave there May 1. That
would bring us to the States about
May 17. By the preparations that are
being made aboard ship I think we
will leave about the 20th. I hope so—
I sure am anxious to get back.
“We've had a little cold weather
the past w^ek, and I had a slight
touch of the grippe. But good weather
has set in and 1 feel better now and
am able to step out again.
do you rememDer me tewing you
about coming down to Seattle from
Cordova with a soldier? His name
was Jackson. You remember him, I
guess; he worked for Jones a while,
and married one of the Fraisure girls.
I’d like to know what became of him.
If you have heard anything let me
know. Ask Roy F. If he has not
been bumped off over here I’d like to
get his address and drop him a line.
I’ve often thought of Harold Chad
wick, so send me some news of
‘Chad,’ too.
“If you see Mr. Slater give him my
regards, and say ‘hello’ to Mr. and
Mrs. Jones.
“Drop me a line, Dewey; I’ll sure
be glad to hear front you. Tell me
what is going on and how all the boys
are making out.
“It’s time to turn in, so will have
to stop. Wishing you the best of
luck. Your friend,
“TOM VAN ERMEN.
“U. S. S. Douglas, Brest, France.”
SENATOR HECKMAN PLANS
MAKING TOUR OF ALASKA
Senator James R* Heckman will
leave Ketchikan about June 10 f8f a
tour of Alaska fulfilling an ambition
of twenty years. ’
Senator and Mrs. Heckman will
leave down the river from White
Horse, going to Nome and returning
to Fairbanks. From Fairbanks a trip
will be made across the coast to Chit
ina. From Cordova the trip will be
continued to Anchorage and out the
government railroad.
Senator Heckman h^.s spent 28
years in the north, but this will be
his first opportunity to visit the in
terior. As soon as conditions justify
be intends to go to Europe to see the
battlefields.
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The American Field of Honor
—It is a patch of soil in France where sleep our dead. It
is Spring now and poppies—blood-red—cover the fresh
f turned earth of the graves. •
' While the marks of th« spade still linger can we forget the
sacrifice those American boys made—can we break faith? ,
\ We can carry on the work they died for. We can keep
faith with them. We can sacrifice here and there to take,
; each of us, our share of the VICTORY LIBERTY
LOAN. Keep faith.
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