Identifier: mexicoitsancient01enoc (find matches)
Title: Mexico, its ancient and modern civilisation, history and political conditions, topography and natural resources, industries and general development;
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Enock, C. Reginald (Charles Reginald), 1868-1970
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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undant water-power which exists in certain sections of the country.Several important hydraulic and hydro-electric generatingstations exist, among them being the Santa GertrudesJute Mills of Orizaba, developing some 5,000 horse power,operated by British capital; the Vera Cruz Light,Power and Traction Company, Ltd., also British ; theAtoyac Irrigation Company, native capital; the Anglo-Mexican Electric Company of Puebla ; the Puebla Tram-way, Light and Power Company, a Canadian enterpriseof great extent and promise; the Mexican Light andPower Company, also Canadian, which absorbed severalexisting native and foreign enterprises. Connected withsome of these important and generally prosperous hydro-electric installations the name of a well-known Britishfirm ^ figures prominently; the builders of the greatvalley drainage work and the re-constructors of theTehuantepec Railway and harbour works, and the VeraCruz harbour works, and other matters of magnitude. S. Pearson and Sons, Ltd., London.
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FINANCE, INDUSTRIES, RAILWAYS 337 So if, as has been stated elsewhere, British trade inMexico is declining, it is at least satisfactory to show thatBritish capital and enterprise has established and profitedby some of the greatest engineering and public worksMexico has ever possessed ; which will always remain asmonuments to British thoroughness. Other hydro-electric stations are those of Guadalajara, at the famousfalls of Juanacatlan, operated by native capital ; theGuanajuato Light and Power Company, an Americanconcern, with a transmission line loo miles long. As to the textile industry, the cotton mills are amongstthe foremost in the world, and their large capacity andsplendidly-built factories are a source of surprise to theEuropean or American traveller. A large number ofthese mills are actuated hydraulically or hydro-electri-cally. In 1907 there were 142 mills throughout thecountry in operation, employing 33,000 operatives, with694,000 spindles, and 23,500 looms. Of these mills3

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