Biggest lumber tract in world

Nº 156

AHSRE L-E-936 F. 105

San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, California

2 de julio de 1908

Biggest lumber tract in world

Greene of Cananea tells of his great projects in Mexico.

Colonel William C. Greene the multimillionaire cooper king of Cananea, arrived at the St. Francis Monday accompanied by his daughter, Miss Eva Greene; her friend, Miss Helen Langlow, Dr. W. J. Galbraith and C. W. Young. He left today mi the Mongolia, as Colonel Greene is worn out from overwork and brain fag and intends to travel to St. Petersburg, by way of Yokohama, Vladivostok and the Transsiberian Railway, in a two months' effort to regain his forma- rugged health.

"This recent bandit outbreak on the Mexican border," said Greene, was at Biseca (sic), a little town of about 300 people in the Chaparral brush country, isolated, and six miles down the river from Del Rio, on the American side of the Rio Grande. The place has been for years a rendezvous for smugglers, bandits, thieves and outlaws. But most of the trouble has been started from the American side, from the head-quarters of the junta at San Antonio and Les Angeles. This junta issues a small paper and appeals to the malcontents in Mexico who are opposed to the Diaz rule. It is a puro case of graft by the men on this side; they have agents in different parts of Mexico, who collect subscription for a proposed revolution, and sometimes it has paid them well. Flores Moran (sic) is one of the leaders, now in jail at Los Angles resisting extradition. I had him indicted in St. Louis two years ago for criminal libel at the time of the Cananea riots. Everything is peaceful at Cananea now. 1 may say that in my thirty years of operating in Mexico I have never known the people so well satisfied. There is very little discontent, and that is caused by the junta and kept going by tramp printers who get it into type". (...).