The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-07-07
COFFEE PLANTING IN NICARAGUA.
Good PROFITS Are Made and the Crop
Never Fails.
Minneapolis OIinn.) Journal.

minneapolis tAlnn-) journal.
Considerable interest in the raising OF
coffee in Nicaragua has been felt in Mime
ap0lis and st. Paul lately or account OF
the return Of w. II. De Sayigny. a former
the last two years. A company has been
formed for carrying on the business in the
n tbat Amer,can STATE, ana ~ Is probable
two cities will go down TO Nicaragua in
the near future.
Mr.. De .Sayigny was a resident OF Mer-
Plantations in Nicaragua and went there 10
investigate He was so impressed with the
possession OF a farm of about 40 acres
from which he took his first crop the last
outgrowth of the Investigations made orig
inally by Mr.. De Savigny and his friends.
is called the st, Paul and Nicaragua Coffee
Company, and its $4,000 worth OF stock is
held by parties living I'm the two cities. II
has already invested in 100 acres OF coffee
f feVqSi m onf WI In h1 ATKINS hless of IA tb Dsa co4ee IN ina a
dustry in Nicaragua Mr.. De Savigny said:
II know Of no investment which offers
such large and sure returns as that OF
coffee raising in Nicaragua In the first
place. the regions of the world where coffee
The product of the eastern coffee fields is
very much reduced, and the Brazil output
Is comparatively small on account of the
troubles IN that country. The Brazil coffee
is the cheapest In the market, while ours
Is the very best We get the price paid
does not reach the American market at
all. The Mocha, so called. which YOU buy
in a grocery store is probably a Nicaraguan
cofee, and, as 1t is just as good, you are
quite as well of.
For the American market we have the
ing a fne climate. The coffee regions OF
Nicaragua are in the mountains a couple
of hundred miles from Cc=Snto. the Pacific
seaport, and half as far from Ma-=12. the
capital. AS coffee will not grow at all at
less than an altitude of 1000 feet and does
best at 5000 feet. the coffee region is, OF
course, high enough TO be healthy. We
have never had any sickness since we went
to Nicaragua; The temperature ranges
from sixty-eight TO s~eventy-eight degrees
never colder or warmer. Labor is plenty
and cheap. and lands so far have not been
ment. 0I hoWeve a. the the Ria rndsn Viii n1' soon OF ' ail be
taken up. Capital Is going In very fast;
say that within the last twelve months at
least s25o.0W has been invested in our dis
Mr.. De Savigny is near Matagalpa, which
is the chief town Of the coffee region. IL
is a place of perhaps 1000 people. with
few advantages in the way of schools and
civilized necessities. but inhabited by a
peaceful and rather industrious people. who
are fast becoming impregnated with the
Yankee vim which is introduced by the
American investors. The recent separation
of church and state in Nicaragua. Mr.. De
Savigny says, is likely TO bring about the
introduction of public schools and other
important adjuncts of modern civilization.
When harvested the coffee crop is hauled
from the Matagaipa district to Managua or
some station on the railroad 10 Corinto.
This is a wagon haul of 100 miles, but labor
is 50 cheap that the expense is but a trife.
A railroad extension will soon be built at
Matagalpa. The cost of the crop laid down
in New York or Liverpool the planters
figure from Sc to $50 per hundred pounds.
The average price paid i'm the last few
years has been about $3.50. These figures
indicate why Mr.. De Savigny regards the
business as the most profitable IN which
any one can engage Another element in
its excellence as an investment is that a
coffee plantation once started is good for
fifty years. The trees bear after two
years and then live for fifty years, and
country.