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30 at Tampico are the Pierce Oil Company and the Royal Dutch or Shell interests and the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The outlook is that the Shell interests will soon be the third largest producers. But the major interests of the Pierce Oil Company and the Standard Oil companies here are in the refining of oil.

It is because of these interests, American and European, in the Tampico field, both as producers and refiners, and because such evidences of underground wealth can command the capital of both Europe and America and because petroleum fuel is working revolutions on both land and sea, that the development, the regeneration, and the hope of Mexico and of the Mexican people must have their base at Tampico, and not in the commerce of Vera Cruz or the inland productions of Mexico, mineral or agricultural.

No redivision of lands in Mexico, no partition of haciendas or ranches, can solve the problems of Mexico or bring her forward to the position she is entitled to occupy by reason of her natural wealth and millions of human hands ready for work.

Land is cheap in Mexico and is to be had