, 1875-02-10


Pimento which is commanding 81 in London,
brings los. per 100 lbs. here the trees are only
beginning to recover from the effects of tho hur-
ricane in November, and the crop must be re-
garded so far as an uncertainty for the present.
In few parishes, however, can it be expected to
reach even an average crop.
Ginger will have a large yield this year: good
quality brings 40s. per 100 lbs. in Hanover and
Westmoreland inferior quality, 3Os. and .32s. In
st. Elizabeth, SOS. The variation in price shows
how much we pay Indirectly because we have no
railways or tramways in the colony by which the
products of the island can DO easily or rapidly
cnvoyed to q market or shipping port.
Fruit is steadily becoming an item OF extensive
expectation and also cultivation, particularly 80
in st. Andrew, St. David and st. Catherine, whore
conveyances are procurable, the distance to King
stOn being short to tho wharf where the Atlas
Steamers take the fruit on board.
In the Atlas Steamer Claribel which left King
ston on Saturday for Now York, we find q ship
ment of-2,272 bags of coffee II barrels of cof-
fee SIS packages of pimonto e packages of old
motal 4 boxes of Jamaica snuff 81 barrels Of
sugar l,345 barrels of oranges. In oil some
3,727 packages of cargo, one thousand three hun
dred of which would have remained and rotted
up0n our trees, but for tho faCt that we had q
fast sailing steamer available to convert them
into GI,3O0 sterling for the fruit growing popu-
lation in the Immediate vicinity of Kingston
CENTRAL FACTORIES.
Much is being done and urged in this island
for tho establishment of Central Factories"
Capitalists in the mother country are willing to
help materially, but they naturally desire to see
the people of Jamaica doing a little themselves
to show the degree of interest they manifest in
the principle of "self holp," and those in Jamai-
ca seemingly quite ready 'to go i'm with capital
for Central Factories feel tImid because, without
proporti onato support from England, it would be
unwise to embark without means sufficient to
W, Ek them properly. 1t only requires q beginning
and tho project Will be successfully "hoated."
A small mill was constructed and erected with pri'
vate means at Stoney Hill in the parish of st An
drew, by q Mr.. King, and SO great Was the in
flow of canes from the poasantry of the vicinity
anxious to avail themselves of the advantages
offered by Mr.. King (thoy supplying the canes
and he converting thom into sugar, retaining
half the produce), the mule power was found
wholly insufficient for the wants of the district,
and he has now a Steam Engine and q Still Mt
tachod to the property. His Excellency Sir Will
liam Grey, hearing Of this enterprise i'll the noun
tains, sent for MIR. King, and has expressed his
int ention of visiting the property for the purpose
of personally inspecting the work.
There is on the table OF the Chlmber Of Commerce
in Kingston, the Report of the Directors Of a Central
Sugar Factory Company (imitGd) in st. Lucia, by
which We find Viscount Walden is chairman, and Mr..
Quintin Hogg, with the Governor Of st. Lucia, are
directors 8,00l shares of EI0 each with six per cent
interest, have been guaranteed by the Government
for two years. The works and building are to BIZ
completed by the 3lst December next, costing EI3,
$50. The thanks of the Jamaica Chamber of Com
merco have been awarded the Hon. Mr.. Motflt, Of
Castries, for the copy o(the Report which no has
been good enough to transmit for the Information OF
Jamalcan5.
STEAMSHIPS COASTWISE.
A Company, as previously announced. IS projected
for running small coasting steamers round the island,
and the plan of one, after tho style of an American
River Boat, is now on view at the Chamber of Com,
merce, sent there by Messrs. Perez 81 Obarrio, Of
New York. The projectors prop $50 to raise ESQ 0
in 5000 shares OF IS each. The prospectus very
t~ruthfully sets forth that The want of expedition and
reliable transport of goods has been a great drawback
to the comm 3rCo Of this island, and this has increased
considerably OF late years, and was never moro severe.
ly felt than at the present moment. The detention
OF goods transported by droghers round the island IS
we'll known, andi is an indispu'ablc fact that the trans
port of goods from Kingston to most OF our outpoTt5
occupies more time than their transport from Ameri-
ca and England to this Colony, and this is occasioned
by the delay incidental in securing %drOgheTs, and
consequent upon their inefficient management -
and there can DC 10 doubt that u Company with
sufficient capital and efficiently managed, would be
one of the most paying and otherwise successful
enterprises that could be set on foot here, for the
entire country is crippled in its industries, bIunted
IN Its enterprise, and taxed heavily in ita food and
IN natural products, solely and entirely because there
Is no traffic or public conVeyanceS for bringing the
different parts of the country together or aitOrdlng
rapid transit to markets aud seaports.
RAILWAY ENTERPRISE.
The colonists arc anXiousiy looking out for the
survey which Sir William Grey promised as a
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