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Rh the company's fenced-in private motor road, for eighty miles, with surveyed right of way to the Tuxpan River, one hundred and twenty-five miles in all.

There is no speed limit on a private line and the company's officials claim their trucks and motors do business over this road cheaper than the business could be handled on a railway; but be it remembered this company makes its own gasolene of sixty-three specific gravity, at a cost of less than a cent a gallon.

The company also parallels this highway most of the distance, or to San Geronimo, by its own motor boat line and water route. From San Geronimo south it operates a thirty-five mile railroad to Cerro Azul, and has nineteen miles further surveyed for construction. It has also five miles of standard gauge road at Ebano; but not a passenger coach on any line. It is all business. The pleasurable way of travel in this country is by the company's motor boats, for it has a very complete line of marine equipment, including the yacht Casiana, usually at hand to take out all Americans when so ordered by the United States or Mexican de facto governments.

The company has been as far-sighted and