The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-03-18
COSTA RIGA.

The little Central American Repub-
TIC OF Costa Rlca is in many respects
the most wonderful country on the
face OF the earth. Nowhere nature
has bestowed her favors with a more
lavish hand, fact which is just now
being brought prominently to the no.
tice Of the whole civilized world,
owing more particularly to the Wig
orous prosecution of the work of con-
structiOn, along her northern border
Of that great inter-oceanic highway,
the Nicaragua Canal the most i'm
pOrtant undertaking of the nineteenth
century. The inter-oceanic canal,
while shortening the distances of the
world and rendering the commercial
ties between Europe, Asia, and Amer
lea closer and stronger, will also at
tract to Costa RIGA the wealth and
enterprise of all parts of the globe.
Even though the Nicaragua Canal
were not an assured fact, Costa RIGA
would merit that attention which she
is now beginning to command. A few
facts relative to her wonderful CHI
mate and her resources, just now be-
ing made more fully available by the
completion of her railroads, will prove
interesting.
Although Costa RIGA, geographical
ly, is a tropical country, her climate
is not tropical except on the coasts,
and even there the heat is not exces-
Sive except at unusual times, being
tempered by trade winds and sea
breezes. TwO-thirds of the area of
the republic has an altitude of from
$500 to 1850 feet above the sea level.
The temperature is simply perfect,
not varying 10 dogs. in years. Warm
est days not above Is dogs. and the
coolest meyer lower thas IS dogs. F.,
a continual spring time and summer.
Costa Rica is rightly called the "Sani-
tarium of America" The wealth OF
her undeveloped mine and her mag
niflcent forests of mahogany, rosewood,
ebony, dyewOodS, and other valuable
woods, is beyond computation. Hel
agricultural resources are immense.
coffee, Sugar-cane cotton, and cocoa
are staple crops and yield immense
returns. According to q. S. Govern.
ment reports the net annual profit
from one acre of coffee trees is from
$3.50 to $500. A SO acre banana plan
tation will return at the end of the
second year net profit of $4,000.
Costa Rica, by reason ofher geOgraph-
ical position, her climate, her in
situations, the character of her PEG
pie, the nature of her productions the
short distance from all the great
centers of civilization, and the hearty
welcome her inhabitants give all for
eigners, affords inducements greater
than any other country for foreign
capital and labor to come to her ter
ritory and aid in developing such
wealth and prosperity as it is difficult
to describe. Men of small means can.
not do better than post themselves
fully regarding the wonderful land OF
perpetual bloom and never ending
harvest.
The Central American Mining and
improvement Company are house ar
ranging to place a Northwestern Col
ony in the most fertile part of Costa
Rica. Persons desiring to seek home:
in climate far superior to California
with great natural resources, or tt
persons desiring to make small in
yestment no better opportunity viii
present itself. Reduced rates o.
transportation and cheap lands tt
stockholders.
Illustrated pamphlet mailed free.
Write for information to
WooDFoRD M. DAVIS, SEC'Y,
173 EAST BIRD ST.,
40t2d ST. PAUL, MINI.