Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-17

in natural resources. The principal nat
nral source of her wealth is her minerals.
These are not mined because OF lack OF
caDital and transportation Goiu 'sllN0i'
conner. iron. fine, opals and coal are
plentiful. The rare woods occupy Inc
second place as source OF WeaIth'
There Is not saw mill III the "ho10
country, and all sawed lumber now
comes from the United States, aIthoush
pine forests abound on the Augah river
The mahogany trees, for helgnI
on6 thickness have no rival
An idea of the enormous SIZE
thew sometimes attain may be had from
the statement that at the lowest part
| of a mahogany tree trunk OF seventeen
! feet in length had butt measurement oa
| five and a half square feet, equaI 10 2oo
! cubic feet, and the piece weighed seven
! teen tons Besides mahogany, Central
| America contains great variety or ali the
woods peculiar to the tropics. Ihey are
the rosewood lignum vitae, pomesral
rubber, sandal wood, cedar, pine, an
-uD and kind of valuable dye |
woods. gum arabic, the copalDa, hquIu
| amber and many others. The re-
Duhlie of Honduras alone places q value |
| of $500 900 900 on its timbers.
| ssThe merchants of the United states
send To Brazil and the East Indies for
! Fec ona smear. while on the hilFsldes
! 80 Honduras Guatemala, Costa RIGA and /
san salvador. many of the localities less
than q weeks travel from ST. LOUIS,
coffee. chocolate and vanilla, not Heeueu
for home consumption are allowed 10 fo'
on the ground. 1t was central AliieIIca
euoer cane that received the first prize AT
The New Orleans exposition. This cane
is so prolific that it is cut twice year
and when cultivated is only planted about
onca in twelve wears. And at only A12
cents q pound for the product, VIII net
Sim an acre. Cotton is there large
+-ee growing and bearing for more than
twenty-five years.
ssSarsaparilla, quinine, coca, quassla,
l liquid amber, castor Deans, Su"Co'
= aloes. beIIadona and numberIess meal-
cinal plants, many of them unknown
5 in botanical classification, abound in the
mountains. Tobacco, the cultivation u
= which is ONLY circumscribed by govern
, mont laws. and which is the source Oh
= largest revenue, is sold altogether III
Europe. and being in many respects SUI
g 1,arior TO the Havana tobacco, the demanu
Is ALWAYS greater than the supply, ana 1t
is so cheap that good cigars, manuIactureo
o under the ausDices of the government F.,
: cell for 81 per 100 IN Spanish
IS money. equal to about seventy-fVe cents
of our currency. Mahogany and lndia
Z, rubber trees abound in all the Valleys.
u English merchants take rubber III eA-
'e change for merchandise, allowing
l. tbirtV-five TO forty cents Spanish money
/ for what they sell in England lor zoe
l. making big profits at both ends. -
s. IsV6at does Central America buy from
"a us?' na
~ principally flour, pork, beans
es canned goods, some dry goods, hard
Il ware, boots and shoes and lager peer
s, Most of the manufactured article
d: used in Central America ar
lg imported from Europe, al
n though the difference in distance IN faVo
La of the United States is some 1890 miles
IS American Hour is worth on the AtlanI
ISL coast in Central America about tWeiV
n dollars a barrel; pork and hams twenty
EST FIVE to thirtY-tYe cents
lat nonnd. beans. rice and Indian corn l
IN cents a pound, and can of America
p- butter brings 81 q pound. They ou
lat from us lust such goods as they cann'
Is oet elsewhere, amounting in value 10 le
srn than one-half of what we take frol
pI- them It is enough to make enterprisln
Lde men weep to see our next door nelghpo
nos going to Europe for everything they nee
Jay instead of buying from as
III Replying to questions as to the eItel
| of foreign DuSIueSS uOLO3 civ ON-
Inc of it Mr.. Hurley said:
ust ts1+ 70 estimated that the annual in
or norts of South and Central America a
ION over four hundred and fifty million do
Fo- lars in value OF this enormous amou
ere. the United States sell less that nifty N
'es, lion dollars, the remaining S4OQ, OOg ~
anu going from England, France ana a@t
pc many. The imports Of the Argent
clal RenubIic amounted last year TO nc
rect than one hundred million dollars
DOT which only "a per cent. were from
III United States. England sold 50
pest cent, and France, Germany ana Bel
wen nm the remainder. The empire OF Bra
wing imports annually over one hundl
re a million dollars worth of dry goods,
ON which the United States sells only abe
OF 3 ner cent, while England alone st
80 45 per cent.
oOO' 7 asked Mr.. Hurley why it ID that
WIN have so small proportion OF this tra
OF tsIt is due mainly - he said, 'to
oank Yankee self-conceit and hard-head
even ness. Our manufacturers, instead
oe- making the character OF II
ner- Goods and their methods OF pa
i l1nt ing conform to the needs
ldles wishes of South and Central Ameri'
AS purchasers, insist that purchasers 81
aited aoap' linen 80 and hacked. Fore
VIA manufacturers are wiser, Ihey
oulo deavor to supply what their custom
ne want instead of demanding that the
pay toners shall want what they have got
rant supplv. To illustrate: The custom ho'
nl ,t,e down there have certain rules, and
In, Inc porters, to avoid unnecessary annoya
me and expense, must have their &c
~, Is hacked in certain ways, their sheetlng
Tger prints UP in certain lengths, etc. Ag'
ne OF the method of transportation Is by me
hauE of trains of mules. A mule load Is
WING pounds, and goods must be packed in
h ! pound packages, so that bag or a
IiIo rell or box can be carried on each side
pack saddle, and so on. European n
oaDiy ufacturers make and pack their goods
so ! meet these and other minor requ
tiLieu ments. The United States manutuct
, ,lu as says:sI you don It want my goods as
llase' are YOU can let them alone. And
us un obIiging natives let them alone.
LOW sfIn the lower half of the Western d
-nIlhS isnhere. including Mexico, there are