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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size-adjust: none">One source has the Holt 120 capable of 15 MPH. That is probably fast enough to keep up with a Cavalry column.</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size-adjust: none">You can watch the big flywheel being spun by hand to start the Holt 120 engine. This guy has a forklift to help put the tractor together.</span><br style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: " font-size: 14.66px">
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> James Peck<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 1, 2020 10:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Antique Tractor Email Discussion Group <at@lists.antique-tractor.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Tractors of the 1916 Mexican Expedition</font>
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<span>I was once read aloud a letter from one of my grandfather's miner buddies in New Mexico. Grandpop had come back to the Midwest in 1907 after a crash in the silver price. The male/female ratio in the mining camps was not in his favor.</span></div>
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<span>When the Villistas attacked Columbus, New Mexico, the gringo miners had felt the need to purchase heat. People otherwise had no need to open carry.</span></div>
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<span>A one time co-worker who described himself as a Mexican Nationalist claimed the raid was in retaliation for a lot of bad ammunition sold to the Villistas by Columbus merchants.</span></div>
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<span>The result was the establishment of firearm and ammunition manufacturing in Mexico.</span></div>
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