Identifier: factsfiguresabou00mexi (find matches)
Title: Facts and figures about Mexico and her great railroad, the Mexican Central
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Mexican Central Railway Co
Subjects: Mexico -- Description and travel
Publisher: Mexico
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the face of the earth, andthat besides his main crop he may raise oranges, bananas andall subtropical fruits, together with most of the vegetables foundin northern gardens, conditions are certainly most favorable. After the plantation is well organized and on a paying basis,it is only necessary for the owner to be on it during the pickingseason, which comes in the delightful months of winter. In fact,it is perfectly feasible for a man to run a fruit farm in the Northand a coffee farm in Mexico at the same time. If the winterseason, which is a dead loss to so many of our northern agricul-turists, could be used by them in coffee production, it would provea great help to their income, and afford them a delightful way topass the winter. BANANAS. THE increased consumption of tropical fruits in northern* countries within the last two decades is one of the remark-able results consequent of our improved transportation facilities. : ^^l^;^-x^. •; ^®$&f*&\ ; fi s-.f^- •.;■ ; V 1
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The ports of New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston, Bal-timore and Mobile receive these fruits by the steamer load, anddistribute them to the thousands of interior cities and villages ofthe United States. Short lines of railroads have been built herein Mexico to take bananas and oranges to the coast, and swiftsteamer lines established to carry them north, yet the markets arenever flooded. Baron Humbolt says that an acre of ground planted inbananas will produce more food at a less cost than any otherknown crop. Another authority has declared that the bananais the most productive of all the fruits of the world. It producesforty-four times as much as the potato and one hundred andthirty-one times as much as wheat. These statements appearto be exaggerations, but they are merely expressions of actualfacts. The greatest market in the world for these products isthe United States, where are the greatest number of well-to-dopeople who have money to spend, and spend it for these luxuries.

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