Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-22
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MEXICO.
Report of Governor Harris, Gen. Price
and Judge Perkins.
To the Hon. M. F. MAURY Imperial Com
missioner Of Colonization =
SIR: The undersigned have the honor to
submit the following
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Immediately after our appointment we
proceeded to The Distfictsof Cerdoya, in
the State of Vera Cruz, for the purpose of
examiug the lands in that district owned by
the Government. We have visited and
examining the hacsudas and lands in said
district mentioned in the decree of 9th
September, 1865. ..,., ...,
They are situated upon the nineteenth
parallel of Dorth latitude upon aplain which
desceuds from the region. Of perpetual
SHOWS, and within twenty five or thirty miles
of the suow. capped peak of Orizaba. The
attitude of this plain is about twenty-eight
hundred and fifty feet above the level OF
the sea, giving climate which is positively
delightful, where it il never too warm to
wear cloth clothes and to sleep under a
blanket with comfort and rarely cold enough
to wear an oserooat. We are informed BY
intelligent persons who have lived in the
country for many years that the extreme
variations of the thermometer will not ex,
ceed twenty degrees. !
The soil is extremely fertile and highly
productive, abounding in every variety Of
tropical fruit, and of the finest quality
Yielding under the present imperfect sys
ten Of cultivation large crops of corn, bar.
ley, rice; tobacco, sugar cane and coffee,
with almost every variety of vegetable,
while that portion of the lands nearest the
coast produces heavy crops of cotton of an
excellent quality. Under proper system
of cultivation we are satisfied that these
lands may be made to produce. equal to any
that We have ever seen. We find mahoga.
ny, cedar, oak and other valuable timber in
the forest, while the orange, lemon, lime,
fig, gusyava and vanilla grow luxuriantly in
the woods These lands are, in our opin
ion, admirably adapted to the purposes Of
colonization. Considering soil, CLIMATE, 10
catioa ;aad variety of crops; we know Of nc
better, if indeed, we have ever seen so de
sirabIe couotry for agricultural pursuits
Some of them lie upon and all in reach
of the railroad fiou Vera Cruz to the City
of Mexico, the most distant being within
twelve miles Of the road and about seventy
from the City of Vera Cruz, and from 6f
teen to twenty miles FROM Passo del Machio
to which point the road is Gow in operation
We are assured by the people of the
country that two crops of corn can be raised
upon the same lands each year, and from
what We have seen we are satisfied that the
custom Of the country is to raise crop oi
corn and crop of tobacco on the same
land, the corn ripening before the usua
time for tobacco planting.
Coffee is extensively and proftably cult
waited in the immediate vicinity of these
lands. The excellent quality of the coffee
grown here in times past give it high rank
in the coffee markets of the world
The cultivation of the coffee crop ia
simple, easy and cheap, producing annually
from thousand to fifteen hundred pounds
per acre. J:
The absence Of any loyal cause of disease
aud the health and robust appearance of the
people living upon this plain give ample
assurances as to the health of the country.
The surveyors are now engaged in. survey,
ing the lands referred to. 1t is believed
they viii complete the Survey within a
week or ten days, when their settlement
vial commence by about thirty American
Immigrants, who are now here awaiting the
completion of the survey.
Immediately upon seeing these immi-
grants furnished with lands we will proceed
to the examination Of Zougolica and Jalapa
lands, upon which we hope to be able to
report very soon. Respectfully submitted,
L. G. HARRIS,
STERLING PRICE,
JOHN PERKINS.
Cordova, November IA, 1865