I hereby certify that I am intimately acquainted with the road between
Vera Cruz and Puebla, and thence to Acapulco.
Having been engaged in mercantile business at Puebla for the last seven
years, I am intimately acquainted with every mile of this road, having,
from the nature of my business, been compelled often to travel over the
whole route, and am therefore free to say that the whole distance can be
travelled in stage-coaches without any impediment—this road being free
from robbers—and will require only an expenditure of from $25,000 to
$30,000, to make it equal to any stage route in the United States; and
at this time, without the expenditure of even a single dollar, the whole
distance can be travelled in stage-coaches, with the exception of about
thirteen leagues, with the utmost facility and expedition. The mail is
now taken from Vera Cruz to Acapulco in sixty hours, which time will
be shortly reduced to fifty hours; and this distance can be regularly
travelled with the mail coaches in that space of time the whole year
round.