The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-03-25
COSTA RIGA.

The little Central American Renuh
lic OF Costa Rica is in many respects
the most wonderful country on the
race or the earth. Nowhere nature
has bestowed her favors with a more
lavish hand, fact which is lust now
being brought prominently to the no.
tlce OF the whole civilized world,
owing more particularly to the Wig.
orous prosecution of the work of con
structlon, along her northern border
OF that great lnter-Oceanic highway,
the Nicaragua Canal, the most inn
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 Rica
would merit that attention which she
is now beginning to command. A few
facts relative to her wonderful eli
mate and her resources, just now be-
ing made more fully available by the
completion of her railroads, will prove
interesting.
Although Costa Rica, geographical
ly, is tropical country, her climate
is not tropical except on the coasts,
and even there the heat is not Excess
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 Ricals rightly called the "Sani-
tarium Of America" The wealth of
her undeveloped mine and her mag
nificent forests of mahogany, rosewood,
ebony, dyewoods, and other valuable
woods, is beyond computation. Her
agricultural resources are immense
coffee, sugar-cane cotton, and cocoa
are staple crops and yield immense
returns. According to U. S. Govern
ment reports the net annual profit
from one acre of coffee trees is from
$3.50 to $500. A 60 acre banana plan
tatiOn will return at the end of the
second year net profit of 5000.
Costa RIGA, by reason other geograph-
ical position, her climate, her in
situations, the character of her peo-
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
Iitory and aid in developing such
wealth and prosperity as it is difficult
ito describe. Men of sma i 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 Northwestern Col
ony,in the most fertile part Of Costa
Rica. Persons desiring to seek homes
in climate far superior to California
with great natural resources, or to
persons desiring to make a small in
vestment no better opportunity will
present itself. Reduced rates of
transportation and cheap lands to
stockholders.
Illustrated pamphlet mailed free.
>uEt JUWrite for information to
WoODFoRD M. DAVIS, SEC'Y,
173 EAST 3RD ST.,
40t2d ST. PAUL, MINI.