SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1508,
THE MORNING ASTOH IAN. ASTOIUA, OREGQ IV
Bananar.Raising;::r::;
A' Great'Industry
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To the writer and no doubt to
jilany others, it has . often aecmed
strange that the southern continent
of tlii hemisphere 1 has no little in
terest for the average citizen of the
United States. Occasionally article
tinve appeared in the 'newspaper! and
magazines which have caused a little
Cutter of interest in somes quarters
but the interest seems to have been
fleeting.
There has been much talk of Dark
est Africa, and explorers galore have
followed the famous Stanley and Liv
ingstone ' into the dark recesses of
that continent until I think I as safe
in saying that the continent of Africa
is, today better known than our own
South America. ,
I feel sure that there is no quarter
of the globe that presents to the im
agination so much of romantic and
ncntimcntal interest and I might add
mmercial Interest, as well as food
or speculation in regard to the myi-
tcrious. and unknown. . .
, Tales of the Spanish Main are still
and no doubt will be for many years
to come, full of interest to all who
read or hear from them. The ex
ploits of the early Spanish explorers
and settlers and the depredations of
the buccaneers certainly furnish
enough of romance and tragedy to
satisfy the most exacting.
One surely cannot read of ihe mag
nificent Spanish dream of a great
empire in the New Yorld without a
thrill of admiration mixed with a
good deal of horror at their methods
of founding it.' Their ruthless de
struction of a civilization, which was
in some respects at least, even su
perior to their own, always rouses
more or less indignation. .
Still, after all, there is a tinge of
sadness mingled with our indignation
when we think of the rapid decadence
of the dream, which has perhaps only
been equaled by the dccarcnce of the
power and influence ot the mother
country itself. ... - f
Of the origin and history of the
early civilization, existing when the
Spaniards came, we know little or
nothing and there seems to be very
little prospect of learning more.
Even of the actual present habitants
of many parts of the continent we
know almost as little.
We are familiar to some extent
with a narrow belt along the coast
of
the oldest of the Spanish American
settlements, tne may find within an
hour s walk or ride, almost primeva
idrchti where there is no sign
humaa s lnhabitants( much less, civi
lizatlon, and the villages of mud and
thatch whose inhabitants are almost
pure Indians, Although they speak
the Spanish language,
A few hour's rule up the Sierre
mountains takes one into a practically
uninhabited wilderness where the
tropical jungtc is so dense that the
path must be cut most of the way
even for a mule train.
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m s reacning me wilderness one
travels most of the way over a wild
trail cit along the sides of the moun
tains, passing at long Intervals, lonely
coffee plantations. These are soon
passed and the only signs of human
life, past or present, are the old In-
dian Aztec roads made by laying
boulders in rows with their flat sides
up, usually two rows of large ones
with a row of smaller ones on either
side. And all of this within a day's
laborious ride up the mountain.
I hen what lies within the vast
stretches beyond?
Of course, the country, on all sides
has been penetrated to some distance
in a desultory way, but how does the
world at large know of it?
Scientists from the great museums
have made some long trips up the
Magdalcna, the Orinoco and the Am
azon rivers and of the country along
the latter considerable has been writ
ten. ...
The report comes from the upper
stretches of the Orinoco of the vast
table land having great fertility and
fine climate, teeming with a wealth of
plant and animal life, but this is a re
port made from a bare book at the
edge of the mysterious unknown
country beyond, through which prob
ably no white man has passed and
emerged alive. -
bavage beasts, savage men, and
deadly fevers have all conspired to
curtail the knowledge that has come
to the outer world.
As-the population of the world in
creases, these great garden spots
must sooner or later be opened tip
and connected with the rest of the
world by modern methods of trans
portation. This the United Fruit Company
has been quietly doing along the
and a little of the territory along the 'coast of the Caribbean Sea for a
navigable rivers, but I think few real
izc how narrow this belt is.
It was the writer's privilege to
spend a few weeks along the coast of
Colombia just at the close of the late
civil war in that country, and there
is very little here that we are famil-
number of years and system has been
developed whose magnitude few un
rcdstand. '.'
Stations have been established from
San Marta, Colombia, to Blueficlds,
Nicaragua and there are important
shipping points at Santa Marta,
iaf with as twentieth ccntuary civi-, Colon, Boca del Toro, Tort Limon,
lization and culture. Even in the j Grey town, and Blucfields and "I do
neighborhood of Santa Marta, one of not know how many more places.
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feci' youii in"4 sU "young"
keep 'the bl6od purethe
stomach rightj the bowels
regular, the skm "clear and
the eyes bright with .t ' "
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The Kind You llavo Always Bought, and which has been
in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of
ana has been made under his per-
fiM Bonal supervision since its infancy.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but
Experiments that trifle tilth and endanger the health of ,
Infants and Children Experience against, Experiment
Whatever may have been aid' ,of
the United Fruit Company as a trust
and an oppressor of smaller concerns,
it has certainly done great things for
the places where its stations have
been established and I have yet to
hear of a case in these places where
unjust discrimination or ' opression
has been practiced, while many who
are ' in their employ and are doing
business with them, speak of them
only in the highest terms. '
Perhaps Limon, Costa Rica fs a
good example and this has been
changed from a little adobe and
thatch tropical mudholc, with aw
ful health conditions to a clean, mod
ern flourishing town, with a small
park which is the most beautiful I
have'ever seen.'" 12:''''','''
The United Fruit Company's prin
cipal industry is of course, raising
and shipping bananas, although they
handle some other fruit and I think
that this' industry which is destined
for many years to come,' to be the
leading one in that climate. The
market for their suit in ihe United
States seems to be almost unlimited,
and the amount of the fruit consumed
is only limited by the supply and
price. ' ,
Some years ago while going from
New York to Colombia. I made the
acquaintance of Don Quiros, a
wealthy Spaniard from San Jose,
Costa Rica, who had very large in
terests in that city and the surround
ing country. Among other things,
he owned a banana plantation from
which he was shipping about, five
thousand bunches of bananas a week
to New York upon the boats of the )
United Fruit Company. v , ,
He told me that some years he had
cleared above all expenses, as hisrh
as seventy per cent, of the original
investment. A profit of from thirty -to
fifty per cent, is not at all uncom
mon.' ' ' , '
Large profits are made along the
coast of Colombia where irrigation
is depended upon, but the Isthmian
and Central American climate, where
there is sufficient rain fall, is better.
The amount of this fruit that is
shipped to the United States is almost
inconceivcable. Ships carrying from
ten to thirty thousand bunches are
anding daily at New Orleans, Mo-
Me, I'hiladclphia, New York and
Boston. From their farms at Bocas
del Toro alone, the United Fruit
Company is shipping three or four
such cargoes a week. , .
There are perhaps few great in
dustries, especially in agricultural
lines, about which the general public
knows so little as that of raising
bananas. Many have a vague mental
picture of a grove of trees which live
year after year and bear bunch after
bunch of bananas, and we often hear
the desire expressed to see the fruit
ripening upon the trees and to taste
the luscious fruit that had riepned
as nature intended. In fact, it is con
sidered the unpardonable sin to al
low
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Coal at $5.00 per Ton
Cardiff Coal tbli&Co's
StbcK at $3.00 Per Share
DO YOU REALIZE what $5.00 peal means to every man n Astoria that burns coal? It means cut
ting his fuel bill half in two; it also means that more than half the people now burning wood will-'
cut their fuel bill nearly half in two by burning CARDIFF COAL. 'This all means a total saving
of thousands of dollars to Astorians. ? f , , ( ,"5 '1
' DO YOU REALIZE when you have an opportunity to buy this stock at $3.00 per share that it
will on the most conservative basis "pay 12 per cent on par ($10.00 per share), or more than 40
per cent on ' its present selling price, $3.00 per share.
DO YOU REALIZE that in less than 30 days this stock will be selling- for $5.00 per share?
WHY? Because we will be shipping and selling coal on both the Portland and Astoria markets;
that part of our machinery will be installed and cause the first allottment that was put on the
market at $3.00 per share will be sold before the 15th of April
DO YOU REALIZE that this this stock will be paying dividends and selling at $10.00 per share
or more before the first of the year? Why?. Because we will be shipping hundreds of tons of
coal per day before that time; because we have the coal, the market and the 1est and cheapest
, transportation in the i world, and last, but not least, .-" " , . ,;, ...r 1
DO YOU REALIZE that you don't realize and won't realize until it is too late what you are
passing up if you don't buy this stock at $3.00 per share before the price advances. Well, if yon
don't realize it now you will when the opportunity has passed, then you will tell your friends that .
you remember when you could have bought Cardiff Coal & Coke Company's stock at $3.00 per
share; in fact, you had almost made up your mind to buy it, but you didn't know whether the
coal would burn or not because it was so close home. Did you ever see any coal thaf wouldn't
bum?-' . : .
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Orders for either Coal or Stock or any information about
either will be cheerfully furnished by C. H. CALLANDER,
at, the Callander Navigation Co. or J. C. LEE, at the North
ern Hotel. :'-!,: "''" V.T '"'.'''
SIR ROBERT HART RETIRES.
PEKIN, Mar. 27, Sir Robert Hart,
who is returning to England after
many years at the head of the Chines
maritime customs, was received in
farewell audience yesterday by, the
Emporor and the Dowager Empress
of China. Sir Robert has been fully
54 years in the service of the Chinese
irovernment. The audience was of
o
unusual duration; The empress cor
dially thanked Sir Robert for his ser
vices to the country and made him a
number of gifts. The emporor also
manifested his appreciation.
Best Healer in the World.
Rev. F. Starbird, of East Raymond,
Maine, says: "I have used Bucklen's
a bunch to ripen upon the tree. 'Arnica Salve for several years, on
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contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Other J&rcotia
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And allays Feverlshness. It cures Dlarrhoftft and ,Wind
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The M You Havo Alwayafiought
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my old army wound, and other obsti
nate sores, and find it the best healer
in the world. I use it too with great
success in my veterinary business."
Price 25c at Chas. Rogers & Son's
drug store. v'-.
ine Danana tree springs trom a
great bulk somewhat like a lily bulk
1 a
ami a single snoot seldom, it ever
bears more than one bunch ' of the
fruit. The bulb lives and throws out
new shoots or suckers from time to
time and often when the bananas are
ready to cut from one shoot, another
froni the same bulk will be growing
up and perhaps in bloom. - After the
bananas are cut the shoot is cut down
and rots upon the ground.
The process of planting a new ba
nana grove is, I am sure, quite differ-,
ent from what most people imagine.
Low, rich soil is usually chosen
and this in the tropics is always cov
ered with a dense growth of timber.
Good banana land , can be purchased
for very little, but it costs a good deal
more to prepare and plant an acre
than the original cost of the land.
First a gang of men is sent though
with mochettas to cut the rank under
growth which unsally grows so thick
that it seems as if a rabbit could
scarcely force his way through. 'After
the undergrowth has been cut down
gang of laborers fpllow to do the
planting. The banana bulbs are cut
into pieces called "bits," each "bit'
containing one eye or sprout, the
process being similar, in a way, to the
cutting of seed potatoes. These "bits"
are planted in rows much like a voting
orchard and then the remainder of e amerent patterns. jtiUiw-U is
the forest is cut down and allowed to t sdld by all good grocers at 10c. per
rackage. Do not accept a substitute
GIFT TO Y.M. C A. 4 . w
CHICAGO, Mar. 27 A contribu
tion ot $S,uuu to the anniversary
fund of the Young Men's Christian
Association, was made yesterday by
Mrs. T. B. Blackstone. Announce
ment of the gift was made by the
citizens advisory committee which is
in charge of raising, the $1,000,000
fund.
' Notice to Our Customers
We are pleased to announce that
Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs,
colds and lung troubles is not affected
by the National Pure Food and Drug
law as it contains no opiates or other
harmful drugs, and we recommend it
as a
safe remedy for children and
adults. T. F. Laurin; Owl Drug
Store. . " r-'v' .. :
IMPIRSONED IN OLD MINE.
SPOKANE. March 26.-Paur Em-
anuelson and Rasmus Rasmussen,
timbermen, were imprisoned by a fall
of waste in an abandoned working in
the Bunker. Hill and Sullivan mine "at
Wardner, Idaho. The men are work
ing tonght in an effort to rescue them
if they are still alive.
I-ane'a, Family Medicine will giv you
a digestion tiat will permit yon to eat
good things instead of "health foods" of
various sorts that are -aa palatable aa
hay. . : , - trr .. : r-
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REFUGEES LEAVING.
PORT ' AU PRINCE, Mar. 27.
The refugees in the various legations
in Port Au Prince, to the number of
75, will leave here for Kingston to
day on board the oerman cruiser
Bremen. All but two of the refugees
refused the government's guarantee
of safety if they should elect to re
turn to their homes. They preferred
to live out of the country.
ae u. s, gunooat Marietta ar
rived here yesterday from Guantan
amo. The U. S. cruiser Des Moines
has been here for some time past.
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package explaining and illustrating
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