Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-09-17
The Namana Bay Company.

General d. Vlckers gives this account
of the work of the SAmana Bay Company.
When the contract for the ninety -nlne
year lease had been completed, about toe
first of j January last, it had to be confirmed
by the Senate, and by popular vote.
The WORK Of ratification was not complet-
ed, aud the official reports received until
three months later. In March the en- :
glneer corps OF the Company, under the
charge of Captain S. G. Plummer, grad
uate Of West Point, began an elaborate
survey of the land under the jurisdiction
of the company including the Vega Real,
or Royal Pam, tract of prairie land
one hundred and eighty-tour miles In
length by forty in breadth. This plain Or
Valley contains soil of remarkable fertll-
ty, is but slightly wooded, and is watered
by at least forty streams of various SIZES.
Through part of it flows the Yuma
River, which empties into Samana Bay,
and is navIgated for sixty miles. The bay
is thirty miles In length by thirteen in
width.
At the present town of Samana, which
contains some eight hundred or nine hun
dred inhabitants, has an unfavorable site,
the engineers have also been engaged in
laying out a new city at right angles to
the old town and facing the mouth of the
bay. The situation Of the new town will
expose 1t to all the land and sea breezes,
" hich blow with such regularity, render.
ing the nights so cold that blanket is all
ways required for comfort in the height of
summer. The heat of the sun, when one
is exposed to its direct rays, has an inten-
sty unknown out of the tropics, but in the
shade the temperature is never oppressive.
During the stay of General Vlckers the
height of the mercury at no time exceeded
elghty-fve degrees.
The company has built hotel at Sama-
ma, which is expected to be favored re-
sort for consumptlve patients, but the site
of the building Is at too great an elevation,
and a new structure will soon be erected.
Picturesque scenery abouuds in the
neighborhood, and there are beautiful
building spots on hillside near the site OF
the new town.
The Vega Real begins few miles from
Samana Bay, but to reach the most desir-
able situations for farms and settlements
the colonlsts must 60 about torty-fve miles
up the Yuma River.
The names who wish to join the com.
pany comprises farmers. mechanics, and
men of almost all trades. The creates
care will be exercised in the selection OF
the colonists in order to keep away thrift.
less adventures, and obtain industrious
energetic men, who can be trusted to de-
velop the wealth Of the country.
Within the next month the company
will begin to ship tools and machinery t.
: Samana, and to build wharfs at the SAM
place. 1t will also begin the construction
of wagon road leading from the bay
through the Vega Real, to Santiago. Tw'
fat t-bottomed steamers will be placed Oh
the River Yuma, and a few snags ant
other obstructiong in the stream will b
removed.
The work of sending out the first colon
will not be begun until next spring, whe
} the emigrants can at once begin to plan
their crops, and when the climate is mos
favorable for new comers. The Ian
, owned by the company will be sold at
very low price, as the profits are to be Oh
tanned in other ways.
The company owns the peninsula, whlc
is twenty miles in length by twelve
breadth, and will have grant OF thre
leagues OF public land on each side