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Don Antonio Güereña
inspecting tabacco plantations at Hacienda of Coapinole | History
of Agriculture 1919-1922 For generations, Vallarta
has been a fertile land. Two times a year farmers would harvest tabacco, beans
and corn crops. Rich merchants would pay farmers in advance for their crops. One
of the merchants was young Don Ramón Maisterrena, son of Don Fermín
from Tepic, Nayarit. Don Fermín had sent his son to take charge of his
trading business, which had extended to the areas of el Colomo, La Puerta de Lima,
(Lime's Door) and el Coapinole. The business stretched up to President, General
Cárdenas, the government expropriated Don Fermin's six children Consuelo,
Fermín, Carlos, Natalia, Ramón and Jorge. They were of Spanish ancestry. Another
rich merchant from Vallarta was Señor Agustín Flores Contreras.
He was just a young lad when he first worked as an accountig clerk at Casa Maisterrena
in 1916. Later in 1922, he came back to Vallarta to establish his own business
and named it Flores Hermanos (Flores & Brothers). He built his house across
from the seafront on Morelos Street and added a warehouse to by their crops and
exported his products by ship. Don Adolfo Godínez
and Don Antonio Gûereña worked in the same line of business. In
1920, the Mayor of Puerto Vallarta was Señor Lauro Morett. He served a
short six-month term, followed by Señor Buenaventura Santana. Catalina
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