People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1893 — COSTA RICA. [ARTICLE]

COSTA RICA.

The Resources of This Little Central Am. crisan Republic. Costa Rica’s name indicates her richness. Eve-ything will grow within her 23,233 square miles of territory. The favored people number 214,Du0. Costa Rica is the great banana country. The cultivation of the banana has Increased greatly to meet the demand from the United States. Wheat and other grains are produced. The forests abound in valuable timber. Rare woods for cabinet work and medicinal and oleaginous plants are found, as well as rubber, textile plants and dye woods. Costa Rica, according to the latest statistics, has 250,000 head of cattle, 50,000 horses and other animals. Rhe is also rich in gold, silver, coffee, tine, nickel, iron, lead and coal. Manufacturing has made some headway. There are breweries, iron and tool foundries and a distillery in Costa Rica. Th« principal articles that country buys are silk, woolen, linen and cotton goods, toilet articles, wines, liquors, flour, refined sugar, wearing apparel and leather goods. The total foreign commerce of that countiy amounted last year to marly $13,000,000. The United States has recently superseded England in the commercial good graces of Costa Rica. Last year the United States sold to Costa Rica more than onefourth of her total imports, and took from her 40,000 tons of bananas, 45,000 sacks of coffee and altogether nearly $3,000,000 worth of goods and bullion.— Chicago News.