360 Coffee Culture on tbe Soutbern Coast ot Cbiapas, 



coffee produced in the other parts of the republic, where this crop is 

 raised; but I imagine that the annual production, in the entire 

 country, is about 100,000 quintals which is little enough the greater 

 part of this being raised on the coast of Veracruz. Guatemala alone 

 produces more than 200,000 quintals; and Costa Rica, whose popula- 

 tion does not reach 200,000, very nearly 300,000 quintals. 



Mexico possesses extensive lands suitable for coffee, which are now 

 uncultivated, and which will make the fortunes of those who shall 

 cultivate them, contributing at the same time to augment the national 

 wealth. The day in which the cultivation of coffee assumes important 

 proportions in Mexico there will be opened up for the country a new 

 source of wealth, of agricultural industry, which will greatly increase 

 its exports, and, as a consequence, its imports, its commercial activity, 

 and even the national revenues, while enriching the planters. 



I earnestly hope that this little work may contribute, in some degree, 

 to the realization of these results. 



M. ROMERO. 

 TAPACHULA, July iS, 1874 



