Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-30

| ~ ID esting to live in. af
| ter one learns, and
TO some extent falls into, the ways of its
| pie, which are found to be the wise
| ways of living there. Contrary to foreign
| ideas, which ge leraIly refer at once to
| yellow fever, the country is a healthy
| one where longevity is more frequent than
in any equal population of our own coun-
| try, and where the variety of diseases is
| much more limited. Yellow and other fe-
| vers are chiefly confined to towns of the
| a1luvial regions, where overfiows from the
| tide the rainy seasons is followed by
| rapid decomposition of vegetable matter
| of the disturbed SOIL and where there is
| the usual want IF sewerage. But yellow
| fever is not frequent, especially in malig
| nant form. and one learns not to dread
| it as he also learns how to live 50 as to
/ reduce the danger from it.
The Three Zones.
The country is naturally divided into three
Zones, charaC te1ized by their principal nat
| / raj rrc ductio9s The first in human i'm
| portance embraces about $4,000 square
| miles, equal in extent to Missouri and the
| Indian territory, and is mostly agricultural
producing coffee, Cacao, tobacco, cotton,
ST gar cane, maize, vegetables and fruits
and sustaining the domestic animals. COT
| fee is the principal production of this re
Slon, AID source of the largest income
from export for the whole country. Compar-
auvely little of The land suitable for the
production of coffee is yet in cultivation
! or proportion Of one out of a pos
sible 30; and he value of the export
Is now about $l5,pDoptJ annually, the value
| OF the possible production may be esti-
ma ted. Indeed, Venezuela and Colombia
(Wlth its still more extensive available cof-
fee area could supply the increasing wants
OF the world in this line, and are annually
more depended upon. 1t may be noted
curious fact en- PEASANT that nearly all
Our Java and Mocha" coffee comes
from the South American countries, very
little being imported into the United
States from the regions which really pro-
duce them, as Treasury Department sta
tistics show.
The Grnzins Region.
The second distinct portion of Venezuela
is the interior grazing region, with an ex-
tent of about 1JiOtU square miles nearly
that of California. 1t consists of high table
lands and extensive plains which are partly
inundated in the rainy season. 1t is sener-
ally rich in paSturage, and sustains large
herds of CATTLE horses and mules. Portions
of it are we'll suited to agriculture Here
is Nenezuelas natural school of cavalry
ana Tor producing hardy, daring, Self-sus-
tanning army material ii is not easy TO slIr-
pass. Pace and his men, who at night
mounted, naked, with their SaberS between
the!I ltetH, swan the SfaEk-Illl6d DIE al
Puerto Cabello and captured the city from
the Spanish general CalZada, and who also
thus mounted captured two British gun
boats anchored in the harbor of Maraca:Do,
We're herders on the plains before they
were dauntless fighters.
The Forest Region.
The third distinct division is the less
known one, mostly lying south of the ORR
noco, conveniently called the forest re-
giOn,' and contains what will ba |.
Venezuela after the boundary business is
settled, probably the whole 345,0oO square
miles, considerably more than half of the
republic, of which Great Britain has seized
the entire seaboard and the richest known
mineral portion of the interior This com
parativey wild area is as valuable proh-
ably, for future agriculture and grazing as
the regions now thus distinguished: and
through Its abundant and splendid water
ways, by which to deliver its present rich
forest and mineral products, and its fuIur.
agricultural ones. to the world of world
wide interest AS to the mineral, with gold
at present in the front, this is the real as
we'll as the traditional Eel Dorado" the
golden. According to Winsers document
airy histories of all America it is the pres
ent 1urLari mining region, now held by the
British, which Sir Walter Raleigh twice
sought as Ell Dorado, but never got very
near to, losing his son in the last venture
with the remnant of his fortune. In 1854
neighbor Of mine of Curacao fifty miles
from the Venezuelan coast at Coro held one
OF thirty shares in the famous mine FL
Callao of the named region, for which he
drew dividend for the year of $4,000. At
one time a negro grocer of st. Thomas
bought up sixteen of the then floating
shares for about SIS per share, in goods;
but as soon as luck struck him heavily he
died. My neighbor, Casseris, refused $780,
600 for his one share, of course. While men
paid royalty for placer mining in the
vicinity of Ell Callao, and $50 sack for
-four for their tortillas. and still got pretty
| rich, 1t was as well to hold on and Jest
draw" The mine produced in 1854 with
sixty stamps in operation, from 80, 936 tons
| of ore, and with 7,60S hours labor, 175 425
| ounces of gold. and in the ten years end
| ing with 1884, S14,625,1 1875, as reported
through the official authorities at Cindad
| Bolivar. Then the direction of the golden
current was changed by the British force
full occupation, with convenient remam-
| brances of Schomburck. and Raleigh, and
| the verified legends of the Yuruar Indians
Hence, the Venezuelan commission and
| ''see what a long tail our cats gotr
yield of Sl15 per ton, and with easy en-
| deavor, was finally enough to put a treaty
and historic boundary "n the air.
| Mountain Ranges.
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