New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-09
GENERAL GRANT on BUSINESS CHANCES
IN NkXICO.

From az Tnterrie1 IN The chicago 4ter.Occan.
" The resources of Mexico are almost unlimited.
The latter, together with the altitude from tide
water up to the limit of vegetation, makes II posi-
bic within very short distance 10 have every pro-
duet under the sun You can ma places WnCrC you
tropical climate IN to where you can gather Ice any
day of the year in the rayineS."
What do they call the coffee which they raise
there, GcneTnW
fee There is not much of II that comes here They
have no incentive to cultivate coffee Tor the reason
they have no means of transporting 1t. They cuuid
not get IT out Of the country. When you have TO
take everything on the backs OF mules and ride for
hundreds of miles, trade must be exclusively do
nestle and very small at that.
Here are these 100000 Of people, willing to go
work for IS cents day at first, but when you ere
ate a market for these things, there will lie a de
mand and there Wi be a competition for their Ia
Dor and the more they begin to get the more they
will spend and what they spend they VIII get back
in wages. The sale of cheap JeWelry-that Will be-
come a great traffic. And watches; take these
cheap watches that are made by Our watch tac-
tories and iron III all its shapes-Taroad IRON loc"
motives cars, and engines. agricultural lmn!e-
ments-that will be one of the first things. Now
they lust have q little cToSs-stck that they dig up
the ground with. There is 20 market Tor products,
except just CROUCH to feed the people, and That Is
very lttlc, but tine minute YOU create market
they would all want improved agricultural ma
chnerY. Now, IT takes no more than ~ % q wear
to dress these ranchmen, but instead "t that they
would spend twice the amount Tor shoes alone, TO
say nothing about the increased amount for their
clothes and the poor people would all wear cotton
What do the women wear now7'
"They get some calico and they pay for 1t ont OF
this cheap labor. They have TO pay 200 per cent
more than they do here, at least that much more for
calico. But that calico dress will last one OF those
moor women five years. just as the SILK dress used to
last our mothers when we were boys. A great many
ladies' then had one silk dress, aud that was the
nuiv one they had duIing their lives. And 50 II is
win these One calico dress IS all they may
ever get" ,
should 60 in there. as they do III the South, ANA
start coffee plantations, would they be well re-
"Ob. YES; and some Of them should raise sugar
and cotton. Any young man can 90 here now aud
do well, if he will. | should say let him go to Ga
Iaca and he will make fortune if he will just he
little patient and steady. In the first place, You can
buy piece of land abOut SIX sections, TWO mi
and siX-tenths square, of the best sugar and coffee
land in the world for $500, and can hire laborcrS
for % cents a daY. 4 man with 81 900 or $1,000
could buy one of these big tracts OF land ana hlie
mcn to commence puttnGlt H. III uoihs ihe piar /
ing he ought to generally commence planting G"ilce
and sugar, and. when he has done that. watch the
market and keep little store where lie can Duy SUI
gar aud cOffee-hc can buy sugar for cent pound
fhcrc-Duy all the sugar and all the coffee that
comes in and pay the money for 1t; they Will take
the money f0rwhat they bring IN, first. but the poor
coUId build np big trade in bis store. speak of
Oajaca, as that is only about twenty-five miles from
the Pacific Coast, where there is harbnr' and Where
steamers already stop once month. lie c0ud mus
ship direct to San Francisco, or he could ship by
Panama for the Eastern market that way"
{" is this coffee hard to cultivate I"
{" No; no more trouble in raising coffee than III
raising peaches in our own country"
There seems to be a big opening for these young
men 7" ..-.,,-
"There is big opening both for individuals and
for the country. 1t is thing we've got to look 10.
~ we are importing an enormous amount of the
articles winch Mexico could furnish us, and which
we could get by an exchange of commodities. Even
Havana, right on our coast, doesn't buy anything
from us /; if want to sell her Hour, she mas 10
send to Spain to got our flour"