Letter from W. M. James, 24 December 1895
Catemaco, Vera Cruz, Mexico,
Hon. Pres. Mormon Ch[ur]ch Latter-day Saints
Salt Lake Utah.
Dear Sir,
I take the liberty of giving below an
offer and description of a magnificent and
beautiful property. If you are not interest-
ed at all will you not kindly turn it
over to some one who will undertake the
sale of it @ 10% commission.
The hacienda of Cuezalapeume 4338 acres
Price $20,00000 Mexican silver.
Six miles from the harbor of sonte comapan on
Gulf of Mexico. 85 miles from below Vera Cruz
Altitude 1100 feet: no marshes, malaria or mosquitos.
Frontage two miles on lake Catemaco a
beautiful body of water surrounded by the
town, plantations and always green
wooded hislls. Three mountain streams
traverse the property making it divisible into
100 acre tracts with water on each.
The union of their valleys made perhaps the
richest tract of sugar cane and rice land in Mexico.
The ground slopes back into the hills over
looking the lake—a lovely landscape.
This higher part by its proximity to the gulf
is the choicest coffee land.
The lands between are peculiarly adapted to
different fruits and crops; including a
