Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-05
PRODUCTS OF MEXICO.
ron TIE NATIONAL IsTELLIGEscER.

PRODUCTS OF MEXICO.
FOR TIE NATIONAL ISTELLIGEscER.
Agriculture is about in this country its nature
position and importance Heretofore il has been held in bu
secondary consideration. The of this that LIANT
was plenty and the population small but with the nceas
Of population our agricultural and horticultural necesse
have increased. Our lands have also increased taking int
the Union all climates embracing those similar to the tro
pics and congenia the growth of tropical fruits and vse
tation We are looking Asia-ward for teas sugu
canes fruits DC. Some Of these articles doubt bt
found much nearer home and be obtained at but hh
cost comparatively therefore Offer for the benefit Of those
who feel all in this subject few agricultural stais
tics collected by myself at random during the late Mexican
war, while stationed in the PROVINCES of Tuspan and
Chicontepec must here remark that but very little atten-
ton was paid agriculture in any part Of Mexico previous
to their independence, while colony Of Spsn from the
fact that the mother country classified her colonies some Of
which devoted to agricultural pursuits, while from others
she only absacted the precious metals. The island Of Cuba
on the Atlantic side, and Chill, the Pacific were en-
couraged and directed by the Spanish Crown pursue alto
geher agriculture 1t is welknown fact that both Chill
and Cuba contained mines Of "copper" silver and go These
mines allowed to be worked but the mines Of MeI
CO and Peru were extensively worked In the latter depart
wheat was not cultivated, but it supplied from Chill
aud Mexico supplied in coffee and sugar from Cuba, al
though both these articles could be supplied by the former in
greater quantities and Of better quality She therefore rem
dered her colonies mutually dependant each ohen fact,
keeping the natural Of each dormant
naturally better soil and climate agriculture than Chill her
natural manures lay in mines inexhausb slong her coast
and on her hills yet she permitted them abun-
danty Mexc, possessed naturally better soil than Cuba,
vet she was not allowed cultivate than enough TO
yield saripgly her inhabitants but Cuba taxed in
the agricultural productions to her utmost extent 10 supply
Mexico The natural productions Of the latter
fully developed, but she left terse and to wild
in prolific natural growth without tie aid Of art and while
agricultural instruments plenty 10th in Chilli and Cuba,
Mexico destitute Of them, and he native left his
matchett only to scratch up bis proEr soil.
The provinces Of Tuspan and Chicontepec blessed
with all climates While find tie department Of Chi
conepec very warm, have the department. Of Tonco-
matlan both cold and But il order to give beter
idea Of these provinces, will here give their boundaries
They bounded the north by he district Of Tampico,
the east by the Gulf Of Mexico the south by the dis
tics Of Papana Estate Of Vera Cru and Hsunchinapgo,
Estate Of Puebls the by the district of Hugaa.
Its greatest extent from north to south seventy miles, and
from west to sxtyfve miles eIends sixty miles
the gulf coast Three rivers empty into the Gulf of which
there is good anchorage these Tanguno Tuspan and
Cazonis On the latter river there French settlement,
having purchased their lands under the Mexican law
aging emigration and settlement They employed in
raising uad, sarsapara, sugar, cotton, rice, procuring
India rubber from the Pao de Ule, caouchouc, which
grows in great abundance gum copa &c. These
ported to France by the way of Vera Cruz. Tuspan, the
beautiful villa, embraced between three Aowercothed hil
and built on the banks Of the river Of the name the
banks of which covered with plants and flowers of all
varieties the orchdee and leguminosea the air with
their delightful fragrance. The soil and climate are both
congena vegetaon; the river abounds fish the wood
resounds with the wild sweet notes Of the heed songser
The river meanders through soil exceeded in richness
and productveness by any in the world exceled by any
of the West India islands in its tropical productions The
guava grows wild does the lime and lemon. Coffee cotton
of two kinds, the tree graPe sugar cane rice, tobac
CO. VANILLA indigo, pmento, sarsapara, the Indigenous
plants of this department. The Forest plains banks Of
streams, and the river prolific in all kinds Of woods
flowers and beautiful birds. The ch gaudy and fragrant
pumeea gues the air along the upland banks of the
by its beauty and fragrance the daturs, single and double
with its belke blossoms, clogs the with its fragrance;
and the green and fragrant with the leaves and
blossoms of the seaside daod lous and other squacs
drawn before the is assed by the soft notes
Of eathered songstef which floating in almost
aphic strains through the calm solitude Of the night you
uled sleep mperceptby and the become dormant
in gush of fragrance and music The morning is ushered
in by the loud Of the coleo ted purple turkey
and the noisy chchaca and chaing voube parrot Every
eetop has occupant Of the eabered tbe making
the air meodous with their songs each hour brings from the
shady forest songte each day month
it's plant and each month climate which vies health
uness and bamness with it's predecessor Such the de-
paments Of Tuscan and Chicenepec here in these
delightful groves among its flowers listening to its delight
ful songser mnglng with ito kind and hospabe inhabi
tants, spent pleasant year. 1t is Of the productions of
this country intend give you the duh statistics.
We will with sugar This article grows in
great abundance and far superior OF the Cuba varieties
While the Cuba requires to be laid every three years.
this will continue to yield in good quantity ten twelve.
1t be much regretted that the mills here Of such mis-
cradle construction merely made Of wood, they simply pro-
duce from the material called peiesca, which done
up and away to be manufactured into sugar. The
quantity Of pelonca to the amud, ninety square yards
about thousand pounds think this character of
wild in the mountain district of Naatan. The
be obtained through the American Consul at Tampco,
there constant communication through interior natural
canal from that place TO the town of Tuspan.
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