Mexico was becoming more accessible as it improved and expanded its transportation and communication systems. By 1902, President José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori, head of the Mexican Government, and affluent American investors had been involved for more than forty years in infrastructure development projects. Americans and other foreign investors were funding the building of rail systems and telephone and telegraph communication into key regions of the country. The rail systems were being used to access natural resources and to bring American enterprises and American citizens as well as other foreigners into the Republic of Mexico.[10]

Mexico's improved infrastructure was vital to the success of business ventures. Individuals could travel to or from Mexico to many destinations. Advertised water routes promoted luxury travel from Vera Cruz and Tampico in Mexico to German, British and United States ports. Rail companies, often owned by American or other foreign investors, advertised hunting, fishing and cultural travel adventures throughout the country.[11] Import and export merchants used the railways and waterways between Mexico and other countries to transport goods, information and people. United States journalist, James Creelman, learned in an interview with then President Diaz that:

Two-thirds of the railways of Mexico are owned by Americans... More than $1,200,000,000 of foreign capital has been invested in Mexico since President Diaz put system and stability into the nation. Capital for railways, mines, factories and plantations has been pouring in at the rate of $200,000,000 a year.

The cities shine with electric lights and are noisy with electric trolley cars; English is taught in the public schools of the great Federal District; the public treasury is full and overflowing and the national debt decreasing; there are nearly seventy thousand foreigners living contentedly and prosperously in the Republic.[12]

This was the investment environment in Mexico at the time, and Mr. Blalock was actively endeavoring to take advantage of unfolding opportunities. George Blalock and Greer County residents were attempting to do the same thing as other foreigners who had invested in the Mexican economy. They wanted to profit from the vast resources and seemingly limitless business potential unlocked by Mexico’s welcoming political atmosphere.