The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-10-01
COFFEE DISTRICTS OF MEXICO.

Coffee is not indigenous 20 the cOuu-
try, but it was originally brought from
the West Indies about 1890. Still, 1t
was not until 1913 that the plant was
properly cultivated, when Don Juan A.
Gomez. the benefactor of Cordoba, de-
monstrated to the world that Mexico
truly had the soil and climate essential
TO the raising of coffee.
The tree is cultivated in the cantons
of Acayucan, Chicontepec, Cosamaloa-
pam, Coatepec, Cordova, Huatusco, ia
Iacingo, Jalapa, Minatitlan, Misantla,
Orizaba, Ozuluama, Papantla, TuXpan,
Tuxtla, and Zongolica, State of Vera
cruz; in the municipalities of Balan-
can, Cardenas, Comalcalco, Cundua
can, Frontera, Huimanguillo, Jalapa.
JaIpa, Macuspana, Nacajuca, Paraiso,
San Juan Bantista, Tacotalpa, and Te-
apa, Tabasco; in the departments of
Chiapa, Chilon, Cometan, La Libertad,
Mezcalapa, Pichucalco, Simojovel, So
conusco, and Tuxtla, Gutierrez; in the
districts of ChOapam, Cuicatlan, Ejutla,
Ixtlan, Jameltepec, Juchitlan, Juquila,
Juxtlahuaca, Miahuatlan, POchutla,
Tehuantepec, Teotitlan, Tlaxiaco, Tux
tepec. Villa Alta, and Yautepec, OaXa-
ca; in the districts of Atlixco Chiautla,
Huanchinango, MatamOros, Tepeji
Tehuacan, Tetela, Tezintlan, Tlatlau
pui, Zacapoaxtla, and Zacatlan, Pueb-
la; in the districts of Hueyutla, Jacala,
Molango, Tenango, Tulancingo, and
Zacualtipan, HidaIgo; in the munich
pality of JaIpam, Queretaro; in the
partidos of Cuidad de Wales, Hidalgo,
Tamazunchale, and Tancanhuitz, San
Louis Potosi; in the districts of Cuer
navaca, Jonacatepec, Morelos, Tete-
Gala, and Yautepec, Morelos; in the
partidos of Sultepec, Temascaltepec,
Tenancingo, and Vale de Bravo, Mex
leo; in the districts of Alarcon, Aida
ma, Allende, Braves, Galcana, and
Moreios, Guerrero; in the districts of
Apatzingan, Ario, Coalcoman, Jiquil-
pam, Tacambaro, Uruapan, Zamora,
and Titacuaro, Michoacan, in the can
tons of Autlan, Cuidad Guzman Qua
daIajara, La Barca Mascota, Sayula,
and Tequila Jalisco; and in the de-
partncnts of Ahuacatlan, AcapOneta,
Compastela and Topic, Territory Of
Topic: and in the districts of Alvarez,
Centre, Colima, and Medellin, Colima.
COFFEE CROP OF 1895.
The total production of coffee in
1895 was "a, 537, 959 Kilograms (53, $685.
500 pounds), distributed among the
different States as follows: .Chiapas,
1897, 682; Colima, 33S ,2S3; Guerrero,
13 ,52S; Hidalgo, 400, 455; JaliscO, 1866
216: Mexico, 106,S79; Michoacan, Az
ia; Morelos, SO 1872; OaXaca, 1884, 443;
Puebla, 1878, 772; Queretaro, 4,417; San
Louis Potosi, SOS, rs; TabascO, 26S,201;
Topic. 3,237; and Veracruz, S,977, 4S2.
The production of the country repre-
sents more than $4,000, 900 trees. Since
1892. the States which have increased
their plantations more than twofold
are Chiapas, OaXaca, Veracruz, and
Puebla. The ratio increase in the total
production for the last two or three
years is about SO per cent. annually.
The consumption keeps pace with the
production. As railroads open up new
markets and transportation becomes
cheaper, the working classes are be-
coming habituated to the daily use of
the aromatic bean. Moreover, the ex-
portation is increasing in ratio every
year. The United States imported
from Mexico in 1888 more than 1000
tons: in 1890, 1888 tons; in 1891, ii,
O44 tons; in 1894, 16,0S0 tons; and in
1895, II, 631 tons.
VARITIES OF MEXICAN COFFEE.
The coffee plant mostly cultivated in
Mexico is a subvariety of the mocha,
or Coffea arabica. This is an ever
green, partaking more of the nature of
a shrub. which, in a state of cultiva-
ton. varies in height from to z feet.
The range of this species is at eleva-
tions of from 1000 to 5000 feet above
sea level, south of latitude % deg.
north, where the temperature does not
fall below 20 deg. F., still, the most
favorable climate for it would be where
the temperature does not fall below
so deg. nor rise above so deg. in the
shade: as to humidity, there should
be from IS to $50 inches of rain the
year, and the plant should be irrigated
during the dry season, if required.
The myrtle kind, which is consider
ed as second in quality, is also extern
siveIy cultivated. 1t is very similar to
the java. and is distinguished from the
mocha variety by the leaf being larger
and the corolla smaller This plant is
harder than the. mocha kind and will
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cultivated in the Cordoba district. It