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MEXICO.


MEXICO is the only country in the world that can offer settlers cheap homes in rich sections, without frost, with health equal to the average health of the United States.

The-eoffee and fruit belt of the State of Vera Cruz is the most desirable for those who wish to till the soil, for the reason that coffee and all the fruits of the tropics grow to perfection, while most of the products of colder countries also grow side by side with what cannot be produced in any part of the United States. Parts of the States of Tabasco, Oaxaca, and Moreles, adjacent to the State of Vera Cruz, also are desirable, though, with the exception. of 'Tabaseo, more remote from water transportation than the State of Vera Cruz. The Gulf of Mexico is the great cheap-freight route for the products of Mexico to the United States.

Peaches, apples, pears, grapes and wheat do not thrive with coffee, but they pegin to appear in sight of where coffee stops. Tobacco, equal to that of Cuba, grows with coffee, and corn, not much surpassed in Illinois, grows anywhere Jn the coffee belt, or on the coast, where the country is

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