Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-24
BACK FROM MEXICO.
Great Fortunes in Coffee, Tobacco and
Sunar

Sugar.
The reporter. learning that Colonel
n. NJ. Taylor was In the city just from
IuNpan requested his views upon Mex
leo.
II am just back from Tuxpan," said
Colonel Taylor, "and can give you pretty
definite information about the country
and southwest Of that port. / have
been travelling in Mexico now almost
continuously for three years and |
know of no country attracting as much
attention or 80 rapidly developing rs the
coffee cantons of Vera Cruz.
THE consumption Of coffee IN the
| United States as you know exceeds an
nunlly SI5OUO,OOO and Is steadily in
| creasing. Mexico being u coffee drink
/ ing country necessarily consumes much
] of her own product, and only exports
| TO the United States some $6,OOO,OOO
| worth every year
"She cannot, or rather does not supply
one-tenth Of the coffeos consumed here
! Her best coffee lands extend from some
! distance south of Cordoba In the state
of Nern Cruz north TO Tuxpm Upon
the beautiful platenux descending from
the Cordillerns chain of moutains to the
| gulf and Mt elevations ranging from
1000 20 1850 feet Is grown coffee, sugar.
tobacco, cotton, corn and IN infinite
| variety OF tropical fruits Such is the
ever increasing demand for coffee, and
so wonderfully profitable and certain Is
this crop, that unusual attention is being
directed to It's cultivation and 10 those
splendid lands that produce Il so easily
THE profits of coffee raising are well
nigh incredible, but nevertheless unques-
tioned facts.
"a hundred acres costing So per acre
put In coffee averaging 1000 plants To
the acre VIII produce after the third
! a "a ltFlN -. H..
1000 pounds per acre, worth In Mexico
% cents per pound or sob per acre.
AT the fifth year the plantation will
produce NJ conservative estimate four
pounds per tree OF 1900 pounds per acre.
worth $1,000 per acre.
"Hhe plantation In the meantime Is
growing banunus between the coffee rows
for shade, or filling the intervening spaces
! with beans or corn, The revenue from
this source should pay the expenses of
operating the plantation.
THE inquiry for these coffee lands
IL pronounced In Texas many parties
nre buying and improving. notably lie
Chlcqntepec Coffee company, organized
IN Waco aud composed of the most snb.
tanual stockholders, This company is
dong great work in the canton of Chi.
coptepec md viii pny In three wears ire.
mendous dividends to its people. parties
from boston, Denver, Chicago, n svnJi.
cate from Hot Springs. some iron mon
from Cleveland, aud many others whom
1 could name have purchased nj nrlces
varying from S3.75 TO 50 per acre. The
MeAlcan government charges no taxes
against these lands and permits coloIIst.
10 import their stock. agricultural imDle.
inents, ETC., free of duty 10 encourage
production railway rates for produce ON
OF the country are about one-hnlf of the
rates IN, This Is an immense advnntag e
70 the home producer. Vera Cruz ms
sesses decided advantages over All othe,
Mexican states in point of transporta,
ton facilities Besides the many rail
way lines now penetrating that state
anu others ~ rapid progress of building
lhere are hYe great steamship line,
touqhing weekly at her many ports
pouring into her harb0rs the commerc,
OK liverpool Antwerp, Havre. Hamburc
New York, Philadelphia. New Orlean,
ana Galveston, Vera Cruz fronts M,
contour Of the gulf for 500 miles. AM
iaces the shipping OF the world. Hes
decided transportation facilities places he'
TAR ahead OF all Mexican states am
: y causing steady and pronounced rls,
. IN al land values 1 would like I,
1 speak of the extremely valuable forast.
X OF mahogany, red and white cedar prl,n,
h vera, ebony and dye woods that line NV
y many river courses, 10 say that tbei'
3 ofalue Is simple inestimablo."