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REVENUE AND INCOME. 
Indigo $20,000 
Fruits 40,000 
Hides and leather 50,000 
India-rubber 350,000 
Salt 200,000 
Cacao 75,000 
Tobacco 50,000 
Pepper 50,000 
Rice 6,000 
Sugar 150,000 
Valuable woods, dyes, &c . . 500,000 
Ixtle (hemp) $45,000 
Coffee 7,000 
Corn 100,000 
Vanilla \. 10,000 
Sarsaparilla 5,000 
Gums, resins, &c 5,000 
Wax 5,000 
Tallow 14,000 
Tar, pitch, and turpentine.. . 10,000 
Lime 8,000 
$1,700,000 
The Tehuantepec Company may use the products of this field 
of wealth either directly, by exporting them to markets where 
there is a constant demand, or indirectly, by selling the land, 
and letting privileges to other parties. In either case the profits 
would go into the coffers of the company. 
It will be readily perceived that there is no way of arriving 
at any thing like an accurate estimate of the returns that would 
be derived from this source. It will be seen, however, that 
great as the prospect is for a large income from the through or 
foreign traffic, the products of the company's territory would be 
immense. In this connection, it may not be inappropriate to 
mention incidentally, that no sooner would this railroad be 
opened and the Isthmus established as a point of great trade and 
commerce, than all the contiguous territory of the Mexican 
Republic extending as far as Yera Ortiz, and even the capital 
itself, would be favorably affected by it, the results of which 
must be profitable to the company. In the decree of the Mexi- 
can government, granting the privilege to Don Jose de Garay, 
this point, as far as that republic is concerned, is alluded to. 
The decree says : " Feeling, besides, that in order to encourage 
the spirit of speculation, it is necessary to make concessions, by 
which alone enterprise has been fostered ; and that by this enter- 
prise in particular, the nation will obtain revenues on which it 
cannot reckon at present, derivable from foreign trade, and im- 
mediately reap the advantages which must result from com- 
mercial intercourse, when its soil shall become the emporium of 
commerce, and consequently teem with wealth and abundance, 
when its various products shall become articles of exportation, 
<&c." This decree, issued in March, 1842, was signed by General 
