The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-13


It's value by increased production in foreign parts
especially 50 in their Indian provinces Clutch ana Guzu
rate In Port Natal In Egypt and in Brazil. They arc
qe unapprehensive Of retaliation this score which
yet wenght SO easily exercise very tender part Of
our rivals commercial valtysay In the production of
opium In Southern California and in Central America.
Inc TACT Is not so generally known and considered
ought 10 be- that China receives from US in exchange
for its tea twothrds in silver and but third in
features, ginseng and triae in Turkish opium imported
from Smyrna say triae, in regard TO the thirty mil
lions dollars worth of this drug imported annually into
China from the British domiuions 10 India.
The idea " introduce the cultivation OF the poppy in
Southern California started by me, already six years
ago, IN Southern paper, but the excitement created
then BY the California gold LEFT my publication unnotcad-
An article publisher rustae- Ram1sy Times, of the
10th of june 1858, which to my notice during
recent soourn in Egypt awakened in me this idea anew,
but postponed the republication till could attend to the
matter personally. The newspaper article mentioned
above is headed "Rough draft of petition to Para
ment from the European community in Bombay unto til
Honorable the Commons Of Great Britain and Ireland in
Parliament assembled"-and paragraph four, concern
ing the opium monopoly, says:-Your petitioners
would point to the acknowledged fact OF the ute
want Of public thoroughares Of any description and the
deficiency In the Of communication and transport
bctwxt one part OF the country and another Tho
circumstances that affect the progress of industry and
interest OF trade equally affect the OF the
try, which from ls4l to 1850 were never ozce able
meet the public charges and which hang such pre-
carious tenure. that the Chinese government to
sanction the production of opium within the empire,
the Americans 70 settle themselves anywhere in the East
where the poppy might be grown, f3 DOC, 900 sterling
would be swept from our revenues at oncsn
Happily needs no new settlement at all to carry into
effect this wise suggestion: De nos amis les enn.mi
ara
highly proptous to the production OF opum-better,
dare say than any part OF Asia Minor and the Pueblo In
dians, under proper directions well qualified
the Fellaheen, Hindoos or Osmanlees o. the Eastern
hemisphere to attend to this new, and shall prove
neither chemical nor mechanical skill the production OF
opium unlike indigo sugar cotton rice, &c In the vicinity
OF St. Diego land labor and cattle at normal prices
yet unaltered by gold excitement and immigration Any
amount OF opium produced there would dad a ready
ke in the capital OF the STAT, se population contains
very large number of Chinese and whose commercial
relations with China and Japan are improving daily
according TO Information collected tue spot the cost
of the production OF opium in Egypt is 60 cents and in
Anaolg (Asia Minor rs the pound The greater
cost IN the latter country apparently from It's higher
latitude and the less conycnia climate In British Inda
opium Is still monopoly Of government the lcasehold
ers OF certain districts bound to produce and to de-
liver annually given quantity of this drug to the Honor
able Company a. the fixed price OF $3.50 the chest of li0
pounds, which leaves still small remuneration to the
producer This traffic amounts to 5000 chests
year. and the prices Of the drug in the Presdcnees
IRON $500 500 the chest according TO quality and de
mand The cost OF superinten ling and collecting this
portant revenue absorbs near million aad half Of
pounds Opium Is consumed oil over India AMI In the
Maayan Archipelago In Java the sale Of this drug
monopoly Of the Dutch Company.
The value OF opium in the Eastern market varies from
81 to 50 the pound according to quality and demand,
whereas the cost o. production, before stated does
hardly reach dollar the pound.
Jon Company would lose by far more than 900 oo0
with the loss OF her last and only monopoly Ia India and
God knows if the British could go hbustsring and mis-
ruling India they do wth,u these millions rhe cll-
uvaon o. opium on our Pacific shores, combined with
the projected Pacific railroad IL bound to create com
mercial revolution Ia the East which will be dead stop
to the British supremacy not only there but IN all quart
from Bombay and Surat also all the long staple cotton
trown IN Spanish Maula goes % the market Why
sisted by all the modern improvements in the
tiiagc OF the soil and the ginning OF cotton,
rot be able 10 oGtstrp in the cheap production
OF this staple the lazy aud ignorant Creole Spanards and
llindoos oppressed by mlsrue and taxationY Also,
the drying OF grapes aud figs might become objsct 10
the opium planter In Southern California The economy
o. forty per OF import duty OF the heavy loss
occasoned by corruption TO which these fruits subject
cd on account Of the protccd passage they have 70 per
form nom the Mediterranean to the Pacific would
make this very profitable cu ivaton intced. Now
that the usefulness OF the camel Southwestern
frontiers has been admitted BY our legislative body the
proposition 10 import AZ the time camcls
rom Asia Minor and Egypt along with the date palm the
ng, the olive the sesame and the poppy seed hope will
more be scoHcd al, the when started
this idea In the summer Of 1889 in the National k,e'li
gccr, tie Boston Daily Advertiser, aud the 81. Louis
The species OF poppy cultivated the East FOR the sake
OF lis sap (oun) the so called garden poppy, or
ldrdto' sortr forum, OF which there two kinds
the common white and the common black poppy-both
considered equally rica IN sap The pods Of the white
POPPY are larger, whereas the back y m're abundant
in seeds but the its oil inferior to that OF the former
The black poppy contains morphine and the white
mere narcotinc; then, again, the white poppy, with
Than the with oval pods. Tho poppy with brownsh
purple flowers Is said 10 contain the most morphine The
poppy with filled blossoms 4 not so rich in sap as the
one with simple blossoms. The poppy Is called 10 Ara
bic oloo numm-thc meaning OF the Latin word som
nvtra and its dried sap, ageon sound which shows
the origin Of the word opium This drug was known
TO the ancents thousand years ago and II Is es
mated that four hundred millions OF souls addicted TO
It's the Eastern hemisphere. Percra IN his "opcra
hedica says-"opiGm II undoubtedly the most lmpor'
tant ard valuable remedy We have FOR other medicines
one or more substitutes but for opium We have none at
least 10 the large majority Of cases 10 which IL peculiar
and beneficial influence Is regarded In England the
consumption Of opium has doubled In these last twenty
years, an 4 IL increasing still.
The poppy suffers nothing from insects and ts flowers
give rich food TO the bees The oil Of the white poppy
considered In Europe the best aner the olive oil The
poppy wants calm, warmth and q loose soil manure
agrees with II on the best Of lands subsoil OF clay
preindicia TO It's growth The poppy tnrives well after
allow produce, which leaves clear soil such as trees
cabbage and potatoes rich soil II may be cultivated
also IN continuance, Alter the poppy crop crop Of
barley can be raj sed the year Wet does agree
with the POPPY and rain Of two days duration al the
maturity Of the plant will spoil the whole opium crop
The best opium prodGced in Asia Minor comes from the
elevated plain (p'a.eau) In the vicinity OF the town Of
Kara issar The soil Of this plain Is Of volcanic origin
belonging to the trachytlc formation. During three
months fhs pam y c0Neren WIN snow mosty every
winer-the great beat there comes, but alter the opium
crop
In the districts Of Bcnarts and Behar In the valley OF
the Gauges, the poppy Is In November, in Upper
Egypt IN January aud In lower Egypt the time Of the
spring equinox The soil must be poughed and narrowed
carefully before the poppy can be sown also the applca
ton OF prl scr zci manure (gasuo) IL recommended To
acre but two pounds OF seed required which
mixed with earth In order - throw them THU and regu
larry enough AZ az the d. spring up they must
be rooted out carefully aud whoa the young peoples
stand close they DO thnnei that every plant
has about square inches aud easy 10
facilitate the collection Of the sap This done when the
plant reached the height OF two Dr. three inches bet
ter not carly, In order not TO disturb 10 ts growth
The wider the plants stand apart the more capsules they
drive vet this be carried 700 FAR, especially
loose ground because the plants would be exposed
10 be eveiled by the wind month after the sowing
the ground hood and the blossoms show the
earth round the plant hesped up. This must be done
in dry weather No pains should be spared In the tage
Of the soil they will be amply repaid by the Increase
and the Improvement, too OF the sap OF the plant.
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