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bilities in our soil together with a variety of climate. With the
colonization project these products will flourish and be a benefit
to the colonists along the vast extent of our coasts and princi-
pally on the banks of Goazacoalco, Papaloapan, Tabasco, Ozuma-
cinta, Tuspan and Tampico. Meanwhile in the districts of
Sabine, Rio Colorado, and the Californias, many of these articles
will grow along with flax, hemp, silk, olives, grapes, wax and the
merino wool, which in general they will never be able to produce
in the harsh climate of the north and which, combined with the
precious products of pearls and coral, will form a vast and luci-
ative trade in the new district. But in order to attain this happy
result, it is necessary that the government exert itself, stimulat-
ing the new population in these branches which should be par-
ticularly protected and privileged. Consequently it would be
well to form in each new district beginning at the Sabine, a
model farm dedicated to the cultivation of flax, hemp, mulber-
ries, olives, grapes, and the building of bee hives for the propa-
gation of these species. Seeds and plants will be furnished free
to the colonies. They will be promised a conditional reward in
proportion to the progress which they make. With the same ob-
ject there shall be established a vivary or preserve for sheep and
goats of Tibe [sic] [Thibet ?]. Both species live, though neg-
lected, in Tehuacana, and for the lack of attention by the former
administration, they are almost destroyed, or they have not in-
creased as they should. The same is true of the draft horse that
should be brought to Texas.
For the encouragement of the industry in skins, pearls, coral,
and mother of pearl, it would be well to promote companies in
Europe, which, in concurrence with the Mexicans, would dedi-
cate themselves at once to this object and to the colonization of
the districts. However, in order to stimulate these companies, it
is indispensable that the government obtain a law of exclusive
temporary privileges that would encourage those who undertake
these enterprises to advance expense money and a law that would
inspire confidence and offer profits and securities which would
spur them on and compensate them for the risks. No motive or
fear should terrify an administration which understands business
matters, which discerns the times, and which knows the services
that these societies render and have rendered to the commerce of238
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