The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-10
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.. NJ. Dyer, representative of c. W.
Clark & Co., importing agents at Puerto
Cortez. Honduras, a guest of the Cullen,
is in this country on a mission which
may knock the navel orange trade of
southern California out of the market if
his experiments are successful
Mr.. Dyer is taking back TO Honduras
100 young orange trees from Redlands,
Cal, which are TO receive the treatment
known horticulturally as budding-that
is. the buds of the navel orange trees
will be grown upon the thousands of sour
orange trees now under cultivation in
Honduras. The fruit product of these
experiments should be nearly a duplicate
OF its celebrated California rival. They
can be raised and laid down in New Or
box and Mr.. Dyer says California cannot
comDete with this trade, for he would
like to know how the California growers
are going TO get their crops into the
eastern market any cheaper
Honduras is wonderful country. -"
said Mr. Dyer. u have been a resident
fc- about eight years, and besides man
nected. l am also operating coffee
plantation OF my own and have some
good mining property which will keep
until | want to pursue that vocation The
coffee raising of Honduras will far out
strip that of Cuba, and the best coffee
provinces of the caribbean sea. We have
only commenced. Our exports for 1896
were from 1000 to 10000 bags, weight
coming season it will be from 250GO to
80 coo bags The coffee gathering season
IN that country is from October until
January. The past season we also eX-
ported 100000 punches of bananas
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You must remember that We are
within only two and One-half days sail
ing distance from New Orleans, and fruit
oh
cago or New York in that length Of time.
so California has no advantage over us
in time. Then the transportation by our
routes is so much cheaper than over the
with extremely high rates. L should
strongly advise any young man of this
country. with small capital, TO invest Ii
in Honduras. With 5000. for instance,
he could set out So 900 coffee trees. which
would mature in four years and become
perpetual producers. In another year he
could realize the amount of his invest
ment and afterwards il would pay an
nually from 100 to 800 per cent. and 1
would like you TO duplicate that any
where in the world. Old men should not
come to Honduras. 1t Is country Tor
young men who are not afraid to work
Banana raising is another good Industry
for a comparatively poor man. but ii is
not so sure as the coffee business because
you must of a necessity get rid of your
crop as soon as it begins to ripen. Coffee
flavor and value. There were 100000 COT
fee trees planted in 1886
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Mining is assuming enormous proper
tons Just before I left Major T. A
Burke formerly of Louisiana. and pro-
prietor of the Honduras lottery, sold
some of the mining property TO trench
syndicate for 81 .50O. 900. and he is now
operating the Monserrat in the Yuscaran
district, one of the wealthiest in the
country. A large New York company IS
working the Rosario mine IN the san
Juancito district. Another good sale was
trict. 1t brought $4,000 from an English
Syndicate. Before drifting away from
commercial things. may mention that
we work the coffee farms with ihporteo
coolie labor from Jamaica. which we
contract for five years at 81 each month.
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POLITICALLY Honduras is in excellent
condition The laws are very similar TO
those of the United States and grant
nearly the same privileges. Honduras,
Salvador and Nicaragua have formed a
commercial and political alliance Wnich
is known as the Greater Reguohc OF
Central America. They have diet after
the form of the Dutch provinces. Efforts
are now being made to persuade GuaUe-
mala and Costa Rica to Join the con-
federacy-"
The following are registered at the
Templeton-W H. Baugh. NJ. D.. Sho-
shone, Ida; George II. Burroughs, New
York: ]. B. Dodge. New York: r; H
Clark, Ogdensburgh. n. Y; ], H. Shan
barker and wife, Omaha; Philip Ryan
and wife. Denver; Mrs. D C. Summer;
Worcester Mass: G. H. Blodgett and
wife. Kansas City; E. H. Bradshaw.
Omaha: j. W. Hewitt, Omaha; Clay
Lambert. Chicago; A. ]. Kahn. New
york: Owen Reisler. Des Moines: Squire
Coop. Ogden; Constance Everett, Ogden
These guests registered at the Walker
Terry. Manti: II. H. Sheppard, Denver; A.
Huribert. Lincoln, Neb.; Walter s.
Brown. ogden: ]. E Ellison. Bingham;
! W. Cain, Park City; J. z. ClenneI.
Mercur: a A McDougall, Rock Springs;
George Shovel. city.
At the Cullen-George ". E. Dorsey,
Nebraska S. l.. DunsInore. Omaha; j. NJ
Dyer and wife. Honduras; John G.
Schoffer. Brooklyn; r. C. Lund. St.
George F. ]. Osborne. Phoebe. New; H.
Flwood Ogden; W. H. Clark. Helena,
Mon: James H. Gilbert, London; \.
Philips and wife. Base, VT; W. D.
Iarmesi. Cincinnati; F. c. Brown. New
York; F.. s. Terry. Kansas City; ". G.
Snider, Park City
S. B. Calderhead. Butte: Willis Van De-
vanter. Cheyenne; H B. Taylor. Omaha;
T. NJ. Schumacher, San Francisco; L, 3.
Choate Sacle, Cal: Lee ]. Pitneo. Butte;
F. B. Kimball and wife, New York; J. NJ.
Porter Wallace Ida: F. 4. Wadieten,
William Manning. San Francisco; Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Buffers. Johannesburg
Davis D. Field. A. w. Brown. New York;
William Leffingwell, Colorado.