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Excerpt from The Young Engineers in Mexico
Tom was too polite to argue that point. And Harry Hazelton, whom a seventy-mile ride in an automobile over dusty roads, that day, had ren dered very drowsy, didn't consider an argu ment worth while.
Mexico has almost incredible natural wealth, Montez went on, his voice soft and purring, his eyes glowing with something that might have passed for pride. Yet, through all the centuries that white men have been here, I am confident that not one per cent. Of the country's natural resources has yet been taken from the ground. Enough wealth lies at man's beck and call to change the balance of power between the nations of the world. I have been in your great city, New York. It is a place of tremendous wealth.' Yet, within ten years, gold. Enough can be taken from the ground within a radius of twenty miles of here to buy the whole great city of New York at any sane valuation.
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