Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-03-27
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Letter from Captain III. F. Maury.
TICK TO lNXIGRANTS.
OFFICE COLONIZATION, 13 SAN JUAN DE- LETRAN.l
MEXICO, February 9Th. 1855

OFFICE COLONIZATION, 10 SAN JUAN DE- LxraAN. !
MEXICO, February 9th, 1855. !
MY DEAR SIR IL have received your
letter inquiring, like many others, about
Mexico, with the view of making it their
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You know its geographical features and
the fame OF its mineral wealth. Its soil Ia
OF unsurpassed fertility, and it's climate,
a1ger you pegin TO ascend the table lands,
| is as delicious and healthful as the haart
of man can desire. .
The Emreror is ruling wisely and
mildly. Their MaJesties are beloved by
the imperialists and respected by all; theyy
move as freely among the people as the
President Of the United States ever did in
days of yore. The Empire is continually
gaining ground. Enterprise ia abroad
many works of internal improvement are
already under way and about to be COM
menced. Capital is leaving its hiding
places, and the columns of the newspaper
press are daily. and for months have been.
filled with the names of Liberals, who.
looking upon the Empire as success. and
their cause as failure, have laid down
their arms, and are giving in their ad-
hesion. ,,.f-..,5..'-,---
Property and life are daily becoming
more secure. AS an illustration, the doors
of the house in which live are without
locks; nor do ! ever take care even to shut
any OF them before | 20 to bed. True,
there is patero below, but the building 10
an old convent, inhabited and freouented
by hundreds of people who are not barred
from each other by any fastenings.
The impressions abroad about Mexico
are very erroneous. With regard to the
inquiries in behalf of our friends who de-
sire to come to this lovely land, ! have
to say t-e 48t aa S'H I'lIaT5@-
They can find desirable locations in any
climate they please, land suitable for the
cultivation of any staple they prefer, or
the raising Of any kind of stock. As to
the most profitable branch of agricultural
industry-that varies with the locality--
the variation depending as well. upon
the convenience and circumstances Of the
market as upon geographical conditions.
Owing to the want of roads, nayigable
rivers and canals, Internal transportation
Is tedious and expensive, and expectation
difficult. Hence, in one part Of the En-
plre, the spectacle has not been unfre-
quently presented of breadstpffs at famine
prices, while in neighboring department
The most desirable locations, therefore.
for immigrants, who are "well to do,'
(and this is the class that must lead the
way, are on what may be called the in
tertropical belt of Mexico, within which
Cordova and Jalapa are situated. This is
o sort of steppe, or slope, which arises
from the low lands of the coast, to the
various climates which are to be found. in
all intertropical latitudes, at the height of
from 1000 to 1000 feet above the sea.
Within this range the climates are those of
perpetual, Summer, they are healthy and
delightful.
These steppes encircle the Empire on the
east, south and west; they overlook the
valley of the Coatzacoalcos and the Gulf
of Mexico on one side, and the Pacific
Ocean on the other, and abound in garden
spots as beautiful as Eden itself, and as
sinful too. ask l~l G.
Cordova and Jalapa are such places:
there, and at many other places, NAV reap
from the same field two or three crops an
nually, with an increase OF three or four
upon the seed sown. In the
course of the present year railway is to
be completed from each of these points to
Vera Cruz, which will bring them fairly
within the domain of foreign commerce. G
Corn, cotton, coffee, sugar and tobacco
all do well here; but, as rule, consider
coffee, cotton and tobacco the most profit
able staples of cultivation, because thew
can best bear transportation and stand
in foreign markets.
Formerly, and before the country began
to be tossed and vexed by revolution.
lands in the neighborhood of these two
cities were valued at from $75 to 800
per acre.. -.sE..g...
Many Of these splendid haciendas, some
Of them large enough to accommodate
with elegant farms ten times fifty families,
were broken up during the revolution and
heir owners compelled to seek safety else
where. 8i JEFF
They have fallen into ruin and decav
through absen teeism, and now that order
5 restored, the Empire gaming ground,
md internal improvements encouraged by
he wise policy of the Emperor, these
ands are coming into demand. a,1
But present owners find themselves too
Door to repair and bring them under cult
'ation again. They are for sale, and may
% bought at from 80 to $3 per acre.
These abandoned Haciendas (and they
re to be found in all parts of the Empire)
re the places for your thrifty American
armers to establish themselves. Let them,
therefore,, send out their head men to select
place for the whole settlement, to be fol-
owed Immediately by their young men to
ow and plant, and build and repair, and
make ready for the old men, the women .
nd the children and others TO follow by
he time the lands are ready.
They will find it at first best to establish
themselves in villages as well for mutual
Convenience as for protection against the
ands of lawless marauders, who are ever
eady to pounce upon the helpless farmers.
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nechanics 40 are required, to satisfy their
wn wants and necessities.
Tell those who come to count upon all
be assistance and every facility and the
est information that IL is in my power to
ford, or within the province Of this Office
D give.
In the Northern Department. the vino
ourishes well, and the wine is excellent.
On the slopes next to the sea coehineal )"
nd indigo are cultivated, drugs and gums