The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1866-03-06

various services.
Many who have sume means and de.
sire to come in companies TO Mexico
aud establish themselves on some of
these fine.; but abandoned, haciendus,
wish to know wlisse these laciendas are
and their price. a Answer. In almost
every part, and Az any price, from. few
cents to few dollars the acre.
OF course theAprices named to me.
though moderatS are the asking prices.
It is better forevery a,ch company
of immigrants to send some of their
number ahead 70 select a place. and
bargain for it themselves. Bryant from
Arkansas has established COLONY ~
Chihuahua. Mitchell of Missouri, an.
lother on the Rio Verde, in the Depart.
ment of San Luis Pottosi. Terry of
Texas, another iIJaliso. They rert at
irst,with the prisilegc of purchase in
the meantime, at,a stated price.
Then thefB is tue fine coloay of Car.
lottaAnear CordoSa, where the lands
were abandoned, y There was mum.
Der of lIaciendas II that neighborhood
that were indebted for more than they
were worth to the church, and which,
by the Juarez Government, were con
6scated. These have heen exappropri.
atcd by the empite and applied to colo.
nization. $
These lands are sold to immigrants at
81 per acre in five equal annual install.
inents. Geherals'Price and Shelby of
Missouri, Governor Harris of Tennessee,
Judge Perkins Of Louisiana, the Rev.
MIR. Holman of Missouri, and a number
OF others have already established
themselves there. They are highly
pleased with their prospects. By the
time the railway through to- Vera Cruz
IS completed, and the last iustalment
falls due, they will have improved their
farms when the most .staid among
them expect that these farms will bs
worth $40, $40 aud even $50 the acre.
gentleman ftqna Louisiana has been
tabhshrd coffee plautation of 80 acres
which is now in good bearing, and the
crop from which last year was valued
at $4,000.
The Cordova coffee sells in the Nav
York market as. Java, and the tobacco
equals that of CuDa, willie the sugar has
II per cent. moe of saccharine matter
than Cuba.
1t will cost atthe rate of some S. or
Sc an acre TO ctar, mclose and brine
these lands undr cultivation. Hence
it will be SO much cheaper for those
who have littl money to buy a ba.
eenda with gound already cleared
fences made, nd honses, or at least
walls OF houses, already erected. All
the lands of ths;olony are already or
soon will be takn up
Each marriednan there is allowed
$40 acres, but i's now generally adj.
mitted that oneourth of that quantity
will probably bq,dtc as much az on.
family will be ale to cultivate. 1t is so
fertile and wonrfully productive.
But to emigrts with little cap;tal
the speed filliy up Of the colony
should not be sheartening. under the !
idea that there emo more good lands
and choice sps. There are better
lands than thesboth about Cordova
and Jalapa, win, present owners, not q
being able to wS, are ready to sell OH .
favorable terms
Agents have'en established at va. :
rious'convenlenonts to assist emf. :,
grants on their'ival in the country, y
by giving themformation and furnish. .
ing them with necessary certificates u
and passports tenable them to pass
the customs hos, to enjoy all the
rights, phvilegend exemptions Of the h.
Emper9r's deere f. f.
1t has not beas yet practicable to sc
establish agencion the Rio Graade fiji
bnt as soon as my be one will be sta. v,
toned at PRESIDED Norte. I'll
. AT present following agencies W
have been estaIed, viz. l.. Orofesa =
at Vera Cruz n Perkins, formerly in
ol,Louisiana; a'rdova, John II. Lux. G
formerly OF Iona, at Monterey liz