Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-09-25
NICARAGUA'S CHARMS.
COL. ooNAN SOUNDS THE PRAISES
 OF THE MUsoUITo RESERVE

OF THE MUSoUITo RESERVE
 rropIeal Trees and the Luscious Fruits
 Thereof-Cotton. Corn, Coffee and
 surar Cane-Hooest and Truthful Sa-
 tIv.s-Growth of Trade-Climats.
 The pin. apples we took on board at Blue lel Is. Escondido river, measured, some ot them. twelve, sixteen and eighteen inches ia length and weighed eight and ten pounds, and they are sold at about 6 cents a do -en, about the same as tue smLI West lnila fruIt. one being equal to from two to four. The charm to the visitor from this region IS the wonderful forest foliage and tue nOwerS Nearly e.ery tree bears Eowers or fruit The Ia gsst forest trees-ths ceIba tree for instance-grows to the high Of ninety or i,u feet. straight as an arrow and without a limh At that high; from tho ground It wiIens out 10 vast parasol-shapsd affair, literally covered with punches of crimson, be.l-shaped flowers Out Of one of t"sse trees can De made boat which will carry forty or fifty men All tEelr boats are made thsrs oi one piece
 TREES AND THEIR FRUIT.
 Isaw great many mahogany boats from thirty to may feet in length, forty-siX feet beam The bread fruit tree grows every where It Is an immense tree, as large as the largest living oak in Florida, with green foliage The bread fruit looSs like small watsrmsOns It forms the principal DOT ton of the fool of the inhabitants, who usually split it open, put piece of salt porS or other salt meat in it, and bake it, and rt...N.s neishJorhooi with fruit The tree that Is pronounced the most beautiful Is the nionSo tres. It grows to an immense size, from twenty tO fifty feet in circumference, and from ssventy-tive 10 lUO feet in height lt is an immense umbrella-shapod tree, with featherly-IAe foliage One tree will bear 500 man goes. The fruit is heart or kidney sbapsi, and grows to the weight of one or two pounds each Its flavor Is that Of all our best fruit combinei-the plumb ani grape something of the Pear The ca.slrA b a substitute for bread Tho yam grows every where. It grows solid and Is very di.Ter, ut from that of this country. It Is more iike 60 rooc Tne root is fifteen or twenty feet long. They break 1t up in pieces and sell It in sections
 Tue cocoanut palm aUoands everywhere One tree drops a nut every day in the year. lt drops JJj a year Ths banana produces a bunch month every month in ths year. lt Is perpetual in is growth All they have got Co do to cultivate 1t is to chop the brush and stick In the plant, and 1t neeis no cu.ti- vatiOn. it is the slme with all their fruits The sugar cane grows from twenty to twenty-five feet high l WIS told that by the oa.cials, and it produces s,OOJ to lOOJO rounds to the acre lt never needs replac- ing, but grows Just like clover Cotton grows ia the same way, reproducing itself lt becomes a perfect tree and bears q great amount of very fine fiber. Coffee grows gbuudIntly, anu Nicaragua coffee Is among the le-t in the world No liner coIes Is provIdel anywhe- That country Is pre- eminsnt.y Q country ot lazy people. One can live there as nearly without work as anywhere eise. Tue people arc very inds- psnd-ut iu spirit and only work when they feel lile IL One strange thing is that the English language sc,ms to Le the com ns language oi all AmeFi q Spanish anl Ensilsa are spO-su. Lut the who.e business of the place Is principally done in English
 BECOMING CONTAMINATED.
 The peop' are all honest and truthful l was toll uy Capt J. C. sargent, of Maine, who Is the Cnitei states consul there, of an Indian who found a purse containing SJOj auI spent tIe whole day looking through the street Ur the man who lost iL Un- .OrtUna-'iy they are bscOsiing a litt.e con taminltei by our high civilization The American Oiiticians who have got to going down there are damaging tue character of -ne people very much They are the most universally polite people ever saw. Every JoIy sa utes you. even the little negro boys, and if they have not got hat they will pull nt C cir hair. lt is very amusing to uear taem sry good morning. They have d whining manner of drawing 1t out-Good morning, s-a-h Al their costumes are Of the very thinnest anl lishtest naterialS Even the ladies are accu,tomei to array themselves in native simplicity. Physically they ars very Lne race-indeci. the finest race beng the InIians Sou9 of tho women gre superb in figure and hauisOms in feat ures In the town the population consists oi negroes, lliaus and ev ry cross between these two aL Spanish and English tha: they have got tn from ths nitst StatsS
 They are all making money. There Is not one there who is not maains money. The fruit trade, which Is Just beginning, Is des- tned 10 become of immense importance. The climate Is of course warm They have no winter, but you never really suffer from she heat May and September are their wort molths l was down there in May, ani all the tune I wOr5 tue same clothes I Iaye on now, except that l woro linen un- ierclolhes, but with that exception l made no difference between there and here in my
 l1thinS. The day from % oc clock until Is usually hot and nos much work Is done iurins those hours, but people do it who nave to Up to Co o'clock tho temperature IS u d.Lghtful, ani at o'clock breeze rises every day. At nights you always sleep under blankets You never think Of sieop- .n- without a blanket While l was there 1n.y saw two mus luitocs, and gnats are un- sn0wn- They have no troubles0Es insects, JIt some times they have an luvaslOn of hees, brought in from oth r regions Ehs country. y.-Co. FaL Uonau, Letter