The herald., 1896-09-15
Local, Eastern and Foreign
Commercial Dealings
WALL STREET SPECULATION
Coffee Culture In Mexico q Paying
Business
Consul General Crittenden Writes In D.tai
Of the Industry-COsts Of Land and Of
Planting and Profits Set Forth

Thomas T. Crttenden, United States
cousul general to Mexico, has sent the
treasury department a valuable report on
coffee culture in the republic. He quotes
from Prescott as follows:
During the first day. Cortes' road lay
through the TERRA Caliente, the beautiful
land where they had been so long linger-
ing; the land of the vanilla, cochinea!,
cacao, then afterwards of the orange, the
sugar cane and contemporaries which, in
digenous to Mexico, have now become the
luxuries of Europe; the land where the
fruits and the flowers chase one another
in unbroken circle through the year;where
the gales are loaded with perfume till the
senses ache at their sweetness, and the
groves are filled with many colored birds
and insects, whose enameled wings glisten
like diamonds In the bright sun of the
tropics. Such are the magical splendors
of this paradise of the Senses"
dsret hs he N Msxoo SHnsS saYS Ye hen e sv
and municipalities where coffee is success
port on the crops of 1895:
was N5s7, ,s5s Kilograms t5s. 1888. 500 pounds.
ooMs capn ths aeree5 5ss cdma
2ss Guerrero, 13,52s; Hidalgo, 400 455 Jai-
seo 1926; Mexieoss 6s59 Michoacap: @. az:
4n.ll4. MOrelos, Vi, loz Oaxaca, ',i9f,ffo,
Potosi, 56S, lis; Tabasco, 2ss, s,2Ol; Tepic, Co.
2a7; and Veracruz, s.s77 The produc-
q om am Of o the country p he
hae increased their plantations more than
twofold are Chiapas. Oaxaca. Veracruz,
and Puebla. The ratio Of increase in the
total production in the last two or three
years Is about % per cent annually. Ihe
consumption keeps pace with the porduc-
tion. As railroads open up new markets
nd I'VE tof hannn1ag Hhaanpr
working classes are becoming habituated
to the daily use of the aromatic bean.
Moreover the exportat19n is increasing Stata i m
ported from Mexico in 1888 more than 1000.
IONS in 1890. 1888 tons; in 3 1S9l "a s ga tons;
in 1894, 16.0SO tons; and in 1895; 1881 tons.
To handle 100-acre coffee plantation the
cost of the first year is put at S59l5 in Next
can money: second year, $s5o: thlrd year
including houses and apparatus for hand-
ling crops. s45225O The crop OF this year
will net as much. The crop of the fourth
year should net $4,000 and often paying the
net cost of the first and seeond stcs zG years nh
cost of the land in the first place varies
from S. to $25 per acre.
The following advice is given:
agents. the tourists to Mexico, the agents
OF railroad and steamship lines. as well
other business. it may be well for me to
suggest to the people of the United States
not to believe all the exaggerated reports
speciai means Of doing so. Many of the
reports are highly colored for a purpose.
In the unsettled condition of the agricul-
led states. these boomers seen their oppor
tunity believing there may be a disposi--
tion to believe that there i, pot Of gol5G;
at the end of the rainbow" and that ali
that ia necessary is for them to come here
and regain their falling fortunes without
much labor. This is a serious error AS
here without early and late labor. AS a
rule, ] would not recommend anybody to
undertake coffee raising in MEXICO with
out sufficient capital to pay Tor 2so acres oS 0S
land cash in hand and have at least S5OOC
in Mexican currency to meet the first
years expenses