Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-01

Fairs over the best products of Arabia and
Java. Samples of Colima coffee from the
Aqua Sacra estate, now on exhibition IN
San Francisco, are superior to the best
Mocha, The combination of soil and CHI
mate is highly favorable to production.
The trees are free from disease, lorg-liyed
and prolific, while the quality of the crop
is unsurpassed The yield per tree is esti
mated at two and one half pounds through
out Mexico, but it is evident that with
careful and systematic culture the crop can
be greatly increased The British Minis
ter is authority for the statement that on
many plantations the yield is from three
to four pounds per tree, and he mentions
one tree in the garden of Don Pablo de la
Lame, at Cordova, which produced twenty
eight pounds of coffee at single crop.
The capacity of Mexico for
THE PRODUCTION OF SUGAR
Is marvellous. The rich lands near the
coast, both ON the Gulf of Mexico and the
Pacific, yield double what the best Cuban
plantations will produce, and well up on
the slopes of the mountain chains the cane
grows and thrives. The British Minister
estimates that the State of Vera Cruz alone
is capable OF supplying the entire demand
of Europe, and that State includes out q
fraction of the lands suited to It's growth.
The wants of the country tributary to San
Francisco are now partially supplied by the
Sandwich Islands and Manila, but good
deal of sugar is also shipped here from
New York With the development of the
Mexican lands on the western coast San
Francisco could supply not only our own
people, but control the market in all the
interior States Cotton was cultivated
and manufactured by the Aztecs at the
time of the Spanish conquest. 1t has
been one of the staples of Mexico ever
since In lS4S, $1,000, 600 were invested
in cotton factories, and the consumption
of cotton by the factories in the States of
Mexico, Pueblo and Queretaro in 1874 was
over II 600, coo pounds. While the coun-
try under happier conditions might become
large exporter, it has so far failed TO sup
ply its own wants and one of its princi-
pal imports from England is cotton goods.
Cochineal is produced in OaXaco and ad
joining districts to the value of 5000, 600
annually. An inferior quality is produced
in Brazil, but practically Mexico has n
monopoly of this valuable article Of COM
merce.
INDIAN CORN
Grows luxuriantly in all parts of the Re-
public, and is the chief subsistence of the
greater portion of its population. Wheat
of the first quality is produced throughout
northern Mexico and on the elevated lands
of the south. The Weld per acre is as large
as that of the best lands of our own State.
In the hands of such population as is now
filling up the States and Territories of the
great West, the commerce of the region
would build up two or three cities like San
Francisco. At present the foreign trade of
Mexico is principally in the hands of the
English and Germans. The Republic buys
three times as much in Europe as it does
in the United States. Cotton goods, which
we produce cheaper and of better quality
than any country in the world, even I'M
derselling England in her home markets,
are imported from the latter country.
Quicksilver is in large demand for mining
operations, and California should supply
every pound of it. An ilimitable field
ought to be opened up for our mining ma
chinery and agricultural tools. We are
more favorably situated for trade with
Mexico, either on the coast or in the inte-
rior, than any other country III the world,
and something should be done at once to.
remove the barriers that have so long shut
us away from the richest and
FAIREsT PORTION OF THE CONTINENT.
The control OF the trade of China and
the East has been the dream of merchant
princes for ages, but here at our very doors
Is q commerce that IN brief time VIII
rival it in wealth. with none of the attend
ant disadvantages that have made our re-
lations with the Asiatics a source Of danger
to our State California can and ought to
take forward position in working this
mine of wealth. An extension of our rail-
road system over the broad and fertile
table-lands of Mexico would soon give us
the control of its commerce. San Francisco
and Sacramento are nearer to the city of
Mexico than any Eastern trade-center, by
more than a thousand miles. By sea we
possess important advantages, and can al
ways compete successfully with other
countries. 1t needs but a 1.-THE of the en-
ergy and perseverance shown in the pursuit
of trade in other directions to bring about
the desired relations with Mexico. The
exchange of all products of the two coun-
tries free of duty, or at least a commercial
compact by which present duties shall be
reduced and the collection simpltied a
compact by which protection shall be
guaranteed to
AMERICAN CAPITAL INVESTED
In railroads and industrial enterprises,
would confer incalculable benefit upon our
own country, and in few years would lift
Mexico itself from the slough of apathy
and discord into which it has fallen. Ii it
is urged that no such arrangements can be
made with the existing Government of our
sister Republic the reply is obvious. With
in the limits of Mexico there are many lib
eral and enlightened men, who are anxious
to cultivate close relations with the United
State. We have only to press upon the
Mexican people the advantages that a
friendly commerce with us offers, to give
the progressive portion of the population
an influence that cannot be resisted. 1t
rests with our delegation in Congress, our
merchant princes, and our railroad kings,
to improve the opportunity that presents
itself, and secure forever to the cities of
the Pacific coast the trade of the richest
country under the sun.