The Blalock Mexico Colony is situated in the south - west portion of the state of Tamaulipas, Old Mexico, and thirty - five miles west of the Station of Argüelles on the Monterrrey and Tampico division of the Mexican Central R.R. From the said station of Argüelles there is a good wagon road built by the State which passes through our colony and lands. We own approximately two hundred and thirty thousand acres of land. Of this about eighty thousand acres is valley land sectionized with a 40 ft. road reserved around each section. This is our agricultural land. In this valley is where we live at present. We have good spring and well water. Wells are on average 40 ft. deep. We have plenty of good wood for fence posts, fire wood etc., and the best of land. Our products are chiefly: corn, beans, potatoes, peanuts, pumpkins, sorghum, cane, kaffir-corn milo maize and such like. Cattle, horses, hogs, and all live stock do well here. Mules are most generally used by the American farmer, while the Mexican uses oxen. By preparing land in the fall or winter and planting by the 15th of March you can raise two corn crops on the same land. Our seasons for growing crops are long and you can be sure of a long planting and growing season. If you are looking for health, climate, soil, wood, water, sure seasons, cheap grazing land, where you can escape the rigors of winter and the heat of summer and get a climate from 1000 to 8000 ft. above sea level, all on the same ranch, then visit the Blalock Mexico Colony, and we can show you these conditions and you can judge for yourself. We have living here now 350 Americans, thereby affording good society of plain practical people. The Colony employs two school teachers. Our products are in good demand at good prices. We now raise nearly everything we consume. We at present buy our coffee, sugar, flour, soda, and salt. Here we can live content and happy and out of the great hustle and hurry that people are forced to undergo in a race for life and existence in the short seasons of the States, where you spend the products of your labor for fuel and heavy clothing and generally are idle in winter, then dodging storms through the spring and summer. If there is as good or even better land to be had at from $2.00 to $5.00 per acre (gold), where you can grow the same products that you now raise and on top of that add oranges, lemons, pineapples, banannas, aguacates, paguas, figs, grapes, and berries and other wholsome fruits, why not investigate and see with your own eyes as we have seen? If you do not like it the cost is light, and if you do you may have done your duty to yourself and family, of this you must bve the judge. See and will know for yourself. Avoid the tales of some of the land sharks who would just as soon sell you a dismal swamp or an arid waste plain. They are after your money, but if you go where people are actually living and having health and social advantages combined with all that nature could do for a land you are not liable to make a mistake. If you start to visit the Blalock Colony, come, and do not be side-tracked by someone on the way. We got choice of country four years ago. Our first consideration was health and good soil; second, good water; third, the greatest variety of products; fourth, validity of title. We are back in the country out of danger from contagious diseases. We have no fault to find with other sections of Mexcio, still we took these precautions, because we did not buy our land to speculate on but to actually to live on and make our homes there. So if our experience of four years residence on the ground is worth anything to you, you can by buying in or near colony profit by it. Be sure and come while in Mexico and pay us a visit, and then act upon your won best judgement in the selection of a home. You should be prepared to pay for and fence land and then have enough money to go upon for for at least one year. Unless you are able to do this you had better not move yet, for we do not wish to be the means of advising otherwise. We have game such as deer, turkey and fish. We have honey at 20 cts. per gallon; crude brown ribbon cane sugar at 2 1/2 cts. per pound.

We have a healthy breed of fleas; a very few flies; screw worms at times; a very reasonable supply of ticks; a very few snakes. Insects are scarce, generally speaking. We have an ant also that if left alone will eat the leaves off the shrubbery, but never bother crops. If you have a family, who is accustomed to gay society, and try to keep up with the frivolities of life and do not care to work, and your means are limited, stay where you are. This is a new country to Americans and it requires patience; perseverence and elbow grease, some money and good horse sense, and if you are reasonably honest and posess these things we will gladly welcome you regardless of your religious views, as we have Baptists, Methodists, Christians and various other denominations represented here.

One of the most interesting features of our possessions is a vast tract of fine timber land, this however is not in our valley, but up on the slopes and valleys of our mountain land to the north. Now the describing of this tumber land is difficult, as it is a wonderful combination, and it has been the wonder and surprise of all who have seen it on account of the great variety of fine timber, the small fertile valleys, the cold mountain springs, the fresh, crisp, pure air adn the great rocks covered with flowers, ferns, and mosses. Also the blackberry, raspberry, currants and wild rose have found an abiding place in this fertile leaf mold and every crack and crevice forms a receptacle for these plants and flowers and in all forming a beautiful picture of natures own work. I will endeavor to descibe the trees. We We have yellow and red pine and white and red spruce, white oak and all other oaks, black walnut, beach, maple, sweet gum, spanish cedar, and white cedar and other valuable timbers too numerous to mention. These trees are straight, very tall and uniform in size. The pine, gum and oaks will average 60 ft. of clear log in length, and many as high as 90 ft. to 100 ft. to the first limb.

The average diameter of a tree, say 80 ft. cut of clear log, will be 30 inches. After carefully examining this timber tract we place an estimate at one and a half million feet of commercial lumber when sawed.

Address all communications to the Chamal Immigration Company, Chamal Tamps., Mexico, via Argüelles Station.

P.S. - This company is working for the success of the Blalock Mexico Colony and surrounding country.