New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-26
New Orleans 4ailp Grestent,
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.l
Hpf. testing from Mexico,


We present our readers ...o'day with the follow
ing extract from letter addresseu to highly re
speotaG;e cit. citizen Of atlanta by gentleman wei
doya, Mexico, January rs, 1885," The writer i
will be perceived, has emigrated to Mexico anf
mas taken up his in that empire or repnblic
as ing reader may please to cali it, and to his
the late Confederacy, as we design doing. and
trust oil others will do, gives fattering account
OF Mexico, its productions, climate, and so forth
such an account as will doubtless tempt emigration
70 that country we have no more to say, save
that with allthe inducements held out to our Young
men to leave the South, we trust thew will nause
long, aand consider well before they leave it.
Mexico may be garden spot, but thus far it has
not proved SO, while what the South has been in
I@ productions, it may become again.
Below is the extract referred to:
nave not written you since my arrival here,
that might give you the most reliable information
when l did write. From my letters to others,
you have presme been informed of the fact Of
my arrival at Cordova, and Of my intention of
remaining here Since those letters have been
sent, have seen considerable Of this country am
more pleased than ever; am delighted with it..
prises the unintiated. have selected my section
4640 acres) Of land, and have on one side General
3. Price, and on the other Governor Harris, for
ne #s Dor maxim, nr.n.r.ton. ;nnrov. after
the American fashion, these lands, which, one
hundred years ago, were in, perhaps, as high
state ofcutivation as any in the world land yielded
Coffee has been introduced since the days of the
greatest prosperity, and is, or will be the ruling
commodity. Coffee grows here as well, If not bet
ter than in other parts of the world-and the Cor
dova coffee ranks second to none in market. The
mode of growing is as follows:
First, the land is cleared by cutting out the I'M
derbrush and leaving the forest trees or SO many
Of them as will give half shade the young coffee
fraa ia tn ortiff tact
planter, but usually from seven to nine feet apart;
the running vines and weeds are kept down by
hoeing four or five times year. Two years after
the trees set out, and thereafter the nursery is
commenced. You commence to gather cofft o
after three years. You can safely rely on two
pounes to the tree, which, giving 800 to the acre
gives you 1900 pounds of coffee, which is on an
average worth twelve and half cents per
acre. The gathering will not cost more than two
cents per pound this gives 1872 to the acre, which,
deducted from $780, leaves for profit per acre Sl6s.
One hundred acres will yield $4,000 per annum.
This much, an ordinary farmer, with no force but
his family, can cultivate and manage after it is well
) caring. My circumstances are such that l will
nave to plant corn and wheat, with what coffee I
can, for year or two.
My object now is to have 400 acres of bearing
coffee at the time my probation as squatter ex-
pres five years.) This will leave me 200 acres
Tor corn and other commodities. The great ad-
vantage in coffee is, that you require no stock to
cultivate, and you can preserve your timber
Upon land from which the timber is removed, the |
plantain, banana, orange, lemon and other fruit
trees aroused to shade the coffee with. Corn is
usually planted here in May and June, and
yields from forty to sixty bushels per acre. In
September tobacco is planted between the rows, |
which is cut in January and February, making two |
crops in one year on the same land. Sugar cane
ia planted every seven years, and grows with won.
derful luxulience. | have seen canes here that
were five years planted yielding more to the acre
than the most favored lands Of Louisiana. The
culture of sugar, however, requires more capital
and labor than coffee, and is no more profitable.
Ginger, pepper, beans, and many other things, are
grown with the greatest ease.
There is abundant work. and high prices for all
classes Of mechanics here. The carpenter, black
smith and wagon maker all find profitable employ
ment The difficulties that foreigners have to con-
tend with are the want of the language, want of
society. The native element here is rather a
fFTorthless population. They live so easily that
they care not to work. However, we have got
along SO far very well. l have no doubt
II the government here is not interfered
with, that in few years we Will have most
prosperous country here. The Emperor has
strictly Ienjoined upon emigrants that they have
nothing to do with politics. Even the enemies of
the Emperor show US the greatest consideration
and kindness. So far from there being opposition
An the part of Liberals with Americans settling
Flere, they have been kind and conciliatory to all
Confederates, and offer many inducements to
cultivate and improve their lands.