Other private issues

El Higo

Hacienda “El Higo”

El Higo, in the north of the state, was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by the French entrepreneur, Federico Proal (1860-1925) as a sugar hacienda.

We have a $5 vale from the Compañía Azucarera del Panuco, S. A., dated 5 May 1915.

The company also issued $1 and $2 notes printed by Bouligny & Schmidt. The $1, Series A, is known with datestamp 22 April 1916

	series	date on note	from	to	total number	total value
$1	A	4 January 1916					includes number 01923
		22 April 1916					includes number 11426
$2		22 April 1916					includes number 09507
$5		5 May 1915

 

The signatories are:

Federico Proal
A. Lanzier
E Jean-Vincent(?)
Asencio Vidaurrázaga

 

Huayacocotla

Huayacocotla is a town in the Huasteca Baja region.

A series of cartones (1c, 25c, and 50c) for local use, with the name of Carlos Barranco, of "La Ciudad de Londres".

	series	from	to	total number	total number
1c	F
25c	B
50c

Naolinco

Dominguez Hermanos

A typewritten 2c note. The text ‘no circula’ shows that it was for internal use.

Mahuixtlán

Hacienda de Mahuixtlán

Mahuixtlán is 19 kilometres south of Xalapa.

The politician and businessmen Eduardo Dondé owned this hacienda: in 1880 he installed a still to produce aguardiente de caña, and in 1907 and 1910 a waterwheel to drive it. So the Francisco Hernández who issued a note for 50c, dated 22 August 1914, might have been the leasee or overseer or run a local tienda.

Francisco Hernández

 

Tuzamapam

Tuzampapam is 14 kilometres east of Coatepec

A series of notes (5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1 and $2), of unknown origin. The text reads “ Estos vales suplen al hacer la raya y serán cambiados por billetes de cinco pesos cuando se reunan vales por esa cantidad”.

Cosautlan

Cosautlán is a town in the central mountainous area of Veracruz, about 25 kilometres south of Xalapa.

Carlos Cortés y Hermano

	series	from	to	total number	total value
50c	A-5					includes number [    ]

 

A 50c note, dated 20 February 1915 and signed by Carlos Cortés and A. Cortés, presumably his brother.

Carlos Cortés
A. Cortés

 

Botica de “San Rafael”

This chemist's, owned by José de J. Rincón, issued a 50c note, of the same type as other 50c notes issued in Papantla.

	series	from	to	total number	total value
50c	A-3					includes number 728

Veracruz

After the Americans withdrew their forces a new Junta de Administración Civil was established on 24 November 1914. At one of its first sessions, on 1 December, the Inspector de Policía, Teodoro Frezieres, reported that some casas comerciales had issued cardboard vales (cartones-moneda) without any legal authorisation. He was ordered to collect in the paper money and consign the offenders to the authorities. He was also told to use the press to inform the public that such issues were prohibited^{AHV, Actas del Cabildo (Junta de Administración Civil), libro 91, p14} so the next day he published a notice, warning stores that had made issues of moneda fiduciaria, in contravention of the Secretaría de Hacienda y Crédito Público, that they would be referred to the authorities for punishment^{El Dictamen, Año XVI, Núm. 1350, 4 December 1914}.

Emilio Llaxa

Llaxa was one of the merchants who issued cartones, in his case for one and two centavos. On 23 December 1914 his lawyer, Manuel Lozada y Prado, asked the Junta de Administración Civil to return $48 that the police has confiscated. The Junta agreed to return the money, in Constitutionalist notes, and refer Llaxa to the Presidente of the Junta for judgement^{AHV, Actas del Cabildo (Junta de Administración Civil), libro 91, p50}.

Hoteles “Diligencias”

The Hotel Diligencias of Diáz, Menendez y Compañía faced the main square (and still does).

Salon "La Lonja"

This simple typewritten note for 50c is catalogued as from Mexico City but is in fact Veracruz. Braulio Aparicio advertised his restauant in The Mexican Herald from May to September 1914.

Compañía Limitada de Luz Eléctrica, Fuerza y Tracción de Veracruz

The catalogues list a ticket from this tram company but, as elsewhere, we need further documentary evidence before we can agree that these were used as paper currency.

Rio Blanco

Compañía Industrial de Orizaba, S. A.

This was the largest textile factory in the country.

	date on note	series	from	to	total number	total value
20c	9 May 1914	JS					includes number 82001
50c	27 February 1914	NP					includes number 09501