Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27
It Still Lives.
THE NEW HOME OF THE LOUISIANA LOT
TERI COMPANY.

THE NEW HOME or THE LOUISIANA LOT
TERI COMPANY.
The Louisiana State Lottery Company,
whose charter expires on Jan l. 1894, and
whose operations IN the United States, re-
stricted as they have been by adverse
legislative measures during the past few
years, must absolutely cease at that date,
has long been casting around for a home
whence its wide, pread operations could
be conducted without Government inter-
ference. Various rumors have located
the future home Of the lottery company
all the way from he Sandwich Islands
to Kanchstka. Arrangements have been
made with and a charter has been grant
ed by the Government Of the republic of
Honduras whereby the company will re-
move ITS business to that country on the
expiration OF its present charter.
The charter or concession gives to the
lottery company a monopoly of the
lottery business for term of fifty years
and grants to the company the island OF
Guanajl or Bonacca to be used as the
base OF its operations. The concession
also grants the right to the company to
lay a cable from the island to the main
land of the coast of Honduras, to the
United States or 10 Europe. 1t also
grants the right TO establish line of
steamers from any port on the Honduras
coast to any part of the world.
The island of Gsanaja is one Of the Bay
Islands in the Caribbean Sea and lies
about thirteen miles north of Cape Hon
duras. 1t is nine miles long and from
one to three miles wide. The island is
healthy aud produces fruit. Turtles and
fish are abundant. 1t is safe to say that
the establishment of the lottery company's
offices and plant on this little island, now
inhabited by a few hundred negroes, will
bring a change IN those ATTITUDES unlock
cd for to say the least The concession
also grants the company the right to
establish offices throughout the republic
OF Honduras and donates the land neces-
sary for the construction of such offices.
All the tickets issued by the company
will be impressed with the seal Of the Hon
duras Government, and all the drawings OF
the lottery are to be under the supervision
of the Government Imitation Of tie tick
cts of the company is TO be a crime against
the laws of the republic bearing upon
counterfeitiug All supplies, &c, for the
company are to DO admitted free Of duty,
and employees are exempted from military
duty. The Honduras Government, as a
consideration for the granting of the char
ter, is to have the free use oft the cable and
the steamship lines, and is to receive 81,
100000 in American gold coin and a grad
uated percentage of from one to three
per cent, on the face valae of all tickets
sold by the company. The number of
employees IN the offices Of the company
at New Orleans vii, IN themselves form
a white colony of 10 mean Importance.
Steps Will be Immediately taken toward
the construction Of offices and suitable
dwellings for the employees and officials.
Everything done in this line will be
under the direction Of competent en-
gineers, and extraordinary sanitary
precautions will be taken. The proba-
bilites are that the creation Of a winter
resort at Guansia is one of the schemes of
the company. There are many of our
coasting steamers which would make the
trip from New Orleans to Guanaja in two
days. That the climate of the Bay Is.
lands is healthy is atttsted by the fact
that the United States Consul for Hon
duras, Mr.. ". C.. Burchard, prefers to
make his residence Oh the island Of
Ruatan, a few mlas to the north Of
Guansia, instead Of residing in one Of the
cities on the mainland.-N Y. Sun.