San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-10-02

10 the LIGHT.
Your correspondent received this
week the following crop reports
from the railway stations on the
line of the Monterey and Mexican
Gulf railway.
Paredon-state of COahuila, 1850
acres of land in cultivation. They
raise corn, sugar cane, beans, We
getables and fruit, suffered from
drought this year. Crop about an
average. The water supply for ir-
regatiOn limited.
Garcia-State Neuva Leon, 6,66S
acres in cultivation. They raise
corn, sugar cane, beans, vegetables
and fruit. The crops this year
above an average. Fruit crop
good.
Monte 'ey- / have not been able
to get list of the number of acres
of land in cultivation in this dis
trict, but they go up into the thou
sands. They raise corn, sugar cane,
beans, sweet pOtates, all kinds Of
vegetables, oranges, grapes, figs,
bananas, pOmegranates, ounce and
aquacate.
JuareZ This is the first station
east of Monterey. This year there
was 500 acres of new land planted
IN corn, beans and Sugar-Cane,
will produce more than an
average crop of the above cereals.
Cadereyta-Is one of the best
producing districts in the state,
and they never fail to make good
crop. They raise corn, beans, sugar
cane and all kinds of vegetables,
sweet potatoes, and a good variety
of fruit. They grow by irrigation
altogether.
San Juan is the next station on
the line. There are 1000 acres in
cultivation in that vicinity. The
land is very fertile, plenty of water
for irrigation and the yield of corn,
sugar-Cane and beans will be very
large this year.
MOntemOrelOs, 81 miles from
Monterey, has 10000 acres of land
in cultivation. The crops this year
are good. They have had season.
able showers in that section during
the summer. They have an
abundance of water for irrigation.
They raise corn, sugar-cane, beans,
sweet potatoes, and great variety
of vegetables. MOntemOrelOs is
noted for the large and sweet
oranges that are Taised there.
There is not another section of the
country this side of the Pacific
slope, that produces as fine favored
oranges. Since the first of October,
1891, over 10000 orange trees have
been planted by the Americans
in that district. They will
ship large quantities of corn
beans, peloncillOs, sugar and
oranges.
Linares, ninety miles from Mon
terey and the last city in the
state on the line of the road has
$4,000 acres in corn, beans, sugar
cane and vegetables.
The crop this year is above an
average. They raise oranges, bana-
mas, peaches, pears plums, pome-
granates, figs, grapes and aqua
Gates.
There are about 1000
acres in corn, beans and sugarcane
cultivated z here. This is the first
station in the state Of Tamauli pas.
The crops Of corn, beans, ,sugarcane
vegetables and fruit are good. They
grow their crops by irrigation al
together.
La Cruz is one Of the
most important agricultural towns
on the line of the road. There are
3SS,S50 acres of land in corn, beans,
sugar, cane and vegetables in cul-
tivatiOn in that district. All
cereals and fruit never looked bet
ter. They have an abundance of
water for irrigation and stock.
Ortiz, which is only a few miles
from La Cruz, has 35,555 acres of
land planted in corn, sugar cane,
beans and vegetables. AS they
have lots of water for irrigation,
the crops are good. The fruit
crops are also very good.
Victoria, the capitol of Tamau-
lipas has 1900 acres of land in
corn, sugar cane, beans and vege-
tables and sweet potatoes.
They raise there great
variety OF tropical fruit. The
quantity of water is limited, they
need artesian wells in that district
very bad.
EscandOn is the next station, it
is new place and only a small
quantity of land in cultivation,
but as they had seasonable show
nrs during the summer the corn