1895 
Juquila 
houses and jacals with tile and thatched roofs* It is a town of only 
a few hundred people* And is built on a steep hillside and ridge so 
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that the streets and houses are seen climbing about one above the other 
in a confused and broken manner* , 
On an artificial terrace in the middle of the place is a huge church 
building of masonry and adobe and arched roof that appears to contain as 
much material in its walls as goes to make up all the rest of the town* 
This locality is at the extreme lower edge of the frost belt and a 
few small oof fee orchards are found about the houses in town where the 
houses protect them. The coffee plantations of this district which 
give it its reputation are a considerable distance from the town and we 
pass them on our way to Poehutla. The town of Juquila has a forlorn 
appearance and evidently has no benefit from the coffee boom. 
The Jefe Politico here is Octaviano Jijon. He has Idle largest haoienda 
in the district (La Esmeralda) which he claims to contain 100,OCX) each of 
rubber, cacao, and coffee trees. His rubber is at about 800 feet and at 
8%- years yields about 4 oz. rubber. These he transplanted from nursery 
at 2 years of age. The rubber and oaoao on the Jijon plantation are 
irrigated. The rubber trees are planted in nursery 8 inches apart in 
rows and kept there until 2 years old. Cacao is at about same altitude 
as rubber and at 8 years just begins to yield, Jijon considers cacao 
the best crop as compared with rubber. This tree is transplanted at 6 
or 8 months of age but the least injury to tap root causes the plant to 
die so that a considerable percentage of these trees (25 to 50) have to 
be replaced. 
At a higher altitude (2500 ft,) on the same hacienda, without irriga- 
tion, Jijon planted 20,000 coffee trees and cultivated them for 5 years 
at a total cost of about $2600,, and this year (end of 3rd year) he 
gathered from these trees a 10,200 pound crop worth over $3,000, thus 
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