Richmond Palladium (Daily), 3 March 1906 — Page 3

THE ZIOEHIKa PALLADIUM SATURDAY, MABCH 3, 1906.

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8,000,000 BUNCHES OF BANANAS RAISED EACH YEAR IN COSTA RIGA LITTLE BAND OF AMERICANS "WITH AN ARMY OF 7,000 MEN PRODUCES WEALTH IN TROPICAL LAND WHERE HEALTH IS PRESERVED AND COMFORTS ARB ENJOYED.

New Orleans, March 2. By six o'clock Saturday morning all hands were awake on the Anselm, and peering through the rain in an effort to see if the banana plantations would be sufficiently visible through the mist to permit of proper inspection, writes a Port Limon correspondent of the New Orleans Times-Democrat. By way of introduction Mr. Schweppe gave the visitors some of the larger facts connected with the industry that sends from Port Limon alone each year eight million bunches of the best commercial fruit grown in the tropical lands of Central America or elsewhere. He told of the three great districts that are controlled by the United Fruit Company the Banana River district, the Santa Clara district and the Zent district. In these three districts are now about forty plantations, each under a manager or an assistant manager, and each from five hundred to one hundred acres. The managers, chiefly Americans, with a sprinkling, of English, German, na tives,. &c, all report to the district

superintendents, who in turn report , and five in cross checked rows of fifto Manager Schweppe, in Port Li- teen feet apart, where they were mon planted when the undergrowth was These tracts produce about one- first cleared away, and permitted to half the bananas that are shipped come to first fruition during the year from the country. The other half it took the tall timber to rot after is purchased by the fruit company having been felled across the young from the various estates, great or plantings, sprouting from the.' bansmall. that border the lines of the ana eyes.;

Costa Rita' Railway, the Northern) Costa Rica and the smaller brnch lines of road that have been put into operation since the company gained its control of the entire system oif the Atlantic side of Jan Jose. : v It was raining when the party started. It rained all day long. The train soon left Port Limon behind and for some time swept along under over-arching tropical trees and palms down the valley leading into the great Zent banana district. The roadbed, planned and laid with a degree of engineering skill said by experts to be second to none in the States, was in beautiful condition, and never a jar or a jolt disturbed the sightseers, even on the branch lines running through plantations. A man and a half per day, per. mile, is the way the company estimates what it costs to keep up the system from end, swamp and mountain. On the Costa Rican or the Northern Railroad of Costa Rica, which was the American built road first controlled by the United Fruit Company, the maximum grade is three per cent, while, a 20 foot curve is the greatest on the road. Wooden ties are used, .the road being ballasted with a gravel obtained from a great pit back on the foothills. On the main Costa Rica road that is now owned by the Northern of Costa Rica, leading up through the mountains to San Jose, there is one thirty-three foot curve and three twenty-three foot curves, and there are several pi aces where there are long stretches of four per cent grade. So preat is the haulasre cost over this road that little hope is maintained : that the transcontinental traffic will ever amount to much, even when the fifteen mile gap beyond San Jose shall be completed by the American Bridge Company under the contract with the government which the company has just closed. Into the Bananas. For some minutes, almost an hour after leaving the town the train skirted through hills, where quaint palmetto thatched huts, boarded up with bamboo, or packing boxes, or tin cans, as the case might be, housed the jamaica negro laborers. Red clay A DIMPLE MAKER. Find a child with dimples and chubby arms and legs and you find a healthy child. Find one with drawn face and poor, thin body and you see one that needs Scott's Emulsion. Your doctor will no doubt tell you the child is fat-starved its food is not nourishing it. , Nothing helps these thin, pale children like Scott's Emulsion. It contains the very element of fat they need. It supplies them with a perfect . and quickly digested nourishment. Scott's Emulsion brings dimples and rounded limbs. FCOTT & l'.OWNE, 409 Tcarl Street, New York.

over coral and over volcanic base, pitched and tossed into hillocks all along the route, with great trees

leaning over the road, moss draped and orchid spangled. Dense growth packed the spaces next the ground, water dripped and mist hung low. The sun was so many miles away behind the clouds that it seemed a natural impossibility for any blue sky whatever to be behind the vapor. Jamaica negroes, clad in kahki, in gunny sacks, in anything, barefooted with broad brimmed hats, carrying inevitably the machete and the um brella, tramped up and down the track, dodged the train by plunging into the jungle, and smiled broad grins as the group on the observation car whirled on into the planttions. Then the banana district came about the road, first the small farms, ill-kempt, ragged, then the "larger private estates; then the great Zent district. For miles and miles the train went through a monotonous, close reaching jungle of bananas. The plants towered, twenty, thirty feet in the air, standing in groups of four Fields were in all stages, because cutting goes on throughout the year, each plant being chopped downwhen its bunch is cut, and given . about three months in which to grow anew and produce another bunch. Three or four times a year the ground is cleared away- beneath the plants, grass and sprouting undergrowth being hacked down and allowed to rot away each clearing done by contract labor at about $4.50 per hectare (each hectare being 2.4 acres) and this well done enables the land to continue yielding for years and yeai-s without replanting. v On one side of the train, steaming in the rain could be seen a squad of workmen under the negro contracting foreman hacking away with their ma chetes at the. undergrowth, leaving great cross-alternat avenues under the towering tropical foliage, "i On the other side could be seen the squads of two or three working with a single mule or pony cutting fruit, one man armed with a long pole, with a cross-knife at the end,,, killing'.'. the stalks until they ., should , tiend gradually toward him, and then cutting the bunch with his machete, his companions binding the buncnes in paniers on the mule's or pony's back and carrying six or eight at a time . to the platforms along the track. Each bunch removed, the cutter could be seen chopping the stalks to the ground. For this work, all were told the negroes receive from two and threequarters to four cents per bunch, according to the distance from the road with three and a half cents as the av- - , r i i j iage. r.acn squaa is saia 10 oe ca pable of cutting under contract three hundred bunches a day. The yield on a good banana plantation is five hundred bunches per hectare, per annum, with some instances where 750 bunches have been raised, this in the Banana river district. There are seven varieties of bananasthe regular or standard commercial banana, called the patriota; the red, the gueno, the buneo chino, the mazana, the datil and the Indian. The fruit company, so it was said, allows itself on its book estimates twenty-three cents a bunch, gold, as the cost of production. It pays thirty-one cents cash down on the platform to all the producers of bananas on independent estates. A striking feature mentioned in connection with the banana culture that the producers mentioned in connection with the declaration that the fruit grew best seven or eight miles from the coast was that the annual rainfall in the banana district had been 142 inches just twice that of flsew Orleans during the last year, and that the year had not been exceptionally wet. The Great System. Now and then as the train went on the house of a plantation manager could be seen, as a rule standing high above the ground, with garden and outhouses about it. Sometimes rather bedraggled and weather beaten. ' " ' At Zent, the headquarters of the Zent 'district, Superintendent Cutter,

a young fellow not 'twoyears . from

Dartmouth College, boarded the train and was introduced to the party. ' I Down East Yankee, over six fee j tall, with bronzed face, yellow hair I ana a ooyisn smiie, ne is now at me i head of the. finest district of the fin ! est banana region in the world, and i has about' seven thousand acres of land under bis supervision, as wel as 2,700 acres of new land being brought into cultivation. After a further trip up the Zent .Valley, , the party of twenty-odd re turned to Zent, wheje breakfast was ! served at noon in the railway eating house, but served in a manner, and with a menu rather to be expected in the best Central American private country homes. After breakfast the train began its return swing toward the city over another bit of road and through a new stretch of banana country on the up coast side. Through miles on miles of valley the scenery of the morning was repeated, the vista ex tending down the track between the bananas and the forests. Out of the Zent district the train ran into the coast country, then along the strip of rugged coral, above the city, where is Smugglers' Bay, and Pirates' Cove, and other quaint trop ic reminders of the days of the buc caneers. One little point of land was passed, where old Casa Nova' lives the man who brought Minor C. Kieth to Port Limon in 173, paddling him down the coast in a native canoe. , Casa Nova is an. ancient citizen now, who lives in his hut beneath the cocoanut palms and draws his money and his rations from the "company" and gets whatever else in reason he may want. MILTON (Palladium Correspondence.) Milton, Ind., March 2. Miss Helen Coyne, south of town, entertained Misses Mildred Waren, Lora Beeson and Irene Crook" in honor of her ninth birthday, Wednesday evening, with a slumber party. Miss Carie Walker entertained Miss Blanche Hale to supper Wed nesday evening. The Ladies' Aid Society of the Christian church met with Mrs. Hen ry Hussey Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Ellen Callaway and Miss Em ma Izor were the guests of Mrs. Will Higham Wednesday. Rev. Mr. Beck is attracting large audiences to the M. E. church where he is assisting Rev. A. R. Jones in a revival meeting. Mr. Beck pleasing and forcible speaker. is Notre Dame Lady's Appeal. To all knowing sufferers or rheu-r matism, whether muscular or of the joints, sciatica, lumbago, backache, pains in the kidneys or neuralgia pains, to write to her for home treatment which has already cured all of these tortures. She feels it her duty to send it to all sufferers FREE. You can cure yourself at home as thousands will testify no change of climate being necessary. This sim ple discovery banishes uric acid from the blood, loosens the stiffened joints, purifies the blood, and bright ens the eyes, giving elasticity and tone to the whole system. If the above interests you for proof ad dress Mrs. M. Saunders, Box R. Notre Dame, Ind. Galveston's Sea Wall makes life now as safe in that city as on the higher uplands. E. W. Goodloe, who resides on Dutton St., in Waco, Tex., needs no sea wall for safety. He writes: "I have used Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption the past five years and it keeps me well and safe. Before that time I had a cough which for years had been growing worse. Now it's gone." Cures chronic coughs,, La Grippe, Croup, Whooping Cough and prevents Pneumonia. Pleasant to take. Every bottle guaranteed at A. G. Luken & Co.'s drug store. Pries 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. OTC Baarathe Signatue of The Kiwi You Have Alwars Bought "Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil is the best remedy for that often fatal dis ease croup. lias been used with success in our familv for PiVrit. years." Mrs. L. Whiteacre, Buffalo, N. Y. In Self Defense Major Haram, editor and manager of the Constitutionalist, Eminence, Ky., when he was fiercely attacked, four years ago, by Piles, bought a box of Bncklen's Arnica Salve, of which he says: "It cured me in ten days and no trouble since." Quickest healer of Burns,' Sores, Cuts, and Wounds, j 25c at A. G. Luken 's drug store. -

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