Letter from W. H. Hodgson, 17 August 1888
Cincinnati
Wilson Woodruff Esq—
Dear Sir
Seeing an [stamp] from you some days ago in
one of the papers in which you [ex]pressed yourself in favor of your
church acquiring property in Mexico and knowing it to be the very
finest climate in the world and representing as we do several
million acres in Mexico I write to you to ask you in such an event
of wanting any to let us hear from you in the way of correspondence
We can close a contract with you for from three to five million acres
at from 25 to 30[¢] per acre cash American gold. We have about
closed now two million acres to a German syndicate, and from the
attention now attracted towards Mexico from its climate and the
variety of its minerals and immence pasturage we are confident
that before two years no land can be bought as low even as a
dollar an acre. It would pay you magnificently as an investment
even if you should not conclude to move there. The syndicate now
buying are expecting to colonize each forty acres. Would be much pleased
at any rate to hear from you. With many regards I am
Yours Respectfully
W H. Hodgson
Direct to me care of
A Waltner Spencer House
