Acapulco: México's Tropical Paradise by the Sea

Submarines could give both aid and comfort to such submarines in destroying shipping alike on America's and México's West Coast.

Sinaloa, with Sonora, on the West Coast has been particularly friendly to Americans and sympathetic to the cause of America. Not only are there many Americans in the farming sections of the country, but the fine spirit of cooperation among the two nations has resulted in happy trade relations between the people of the state and the people of the United States. This holds true not only for the tomato crop, which is reaching the realms of big business, but also in cattle. Sinaloa cattlemen have been able to sell much of their stock to American feeders, and through the constant and widening influences of trade and merchandising agreements good feelings have been established between our buyers on one side and Sinaloa on the other.

Sinaloa is essentially a desert and mountain state, with the exception of the rich farm belt adjacent to the Golfo de California and the Pacific Ocean. A range of mountains, both wild and rugged, separate Sinaloa from Durango on the east and from Nyarit (Nie-yar-eet) on the south.

A redeeming feature of the country is the heavy rains of the summer, which give impetus to the farming development along the coast. The development of irrigation facilities will result in the reclamation of hundreds of thousands of acres of farming land all along the Sinaloa coast, and that such development is coming, even the most casual traveler can determine from the progressive signs indicated everywhere.Not far south of the Sinaloa-Sonora border is another important farming center, located in and around San Blas and Los Mochis. San Blas is on the mainline of the railroad, situated inland. Eastward toward the Golfo de Califor nia is Los Mochis and the Bay of Topolobampo, one of the fine natural harbors on the West Coast. This area is unusually productive in various agricultural crops.

Sinaloa is a great and important state in México. Its mission is to grow crops, great surpluses that can be absorbed by other sec tions of the Republic, with specialized crops for consumption in the United States.

There are many evidences of ancient farming methods in use, but with the constant inspira tion of the American and his methods, modern farming will add to the greatness of the state.

Time goes slowly, but time goes surely. Progress on the West Coast has been phenome nal during the past quarter century. What the half century will bring to Sinaloa defies even conjecture.