Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-02

,,,,,s d. ouarter OF n million dollars
wear TO the government, Another val
uable concession Is the SAT- monopoly
No salt can be sold except by the
-. owning this concession. At
present the owner is Mrs. Nunez, the
ntdow OF the late President Nunez.
ebo has snlt mines and furnishes the
4 o00 600 people of Colombia with 4 very
poor article at very high prices. To-
bacco is another concession and play
int. cards another. The gambling
houses at Panama pay $4,000 a year
for the right to keep other people out
of the business, and ms far as ] can
learn they are glad TO do II. There
is. Of course. nothing like the money
nfIont now that there was during the
old canal DAYS, but every once in
while they catch u sucker, as they did
lust before | arrived, when youne
freshman lost 5000 in one night at
roulette. Another concession at Pana-
ma Is the lottery. This Us owned by n
stock company, which has capital of
5000 900. The stock pays dividends Of
az per cent a year and 10000 tickets at
n dollar n piece are sold every week
The prizes range from $4,000 downward.
You see the lottery ticket peddler
everywhere. Men, women and child
rem, black and white, accost you In the
hotels, on the streets and in the rail-
road trains. and offer you chances for
passing the lottery Office on Sunday
when the drawing was going on and
stepped in. a little boy Of about eight
years of nEe had been picked out Of
the crowd and put upon table. In
front of him was revolving wire bas-
ket filled with hollow ivory balls, each
containing one of the numbers from
to 10. The basket was whrlcd and
the boy picked out a ball. The number
in II was the thousands of the prize.
another whirl gave the figure for the
hundreds, third for the tens and IA
fourth for the units. The whole thing
was fair enough, only. ms the alcnlde.
or the city Judge, In charge told me,
there was only about one chance IN
five hundred of ticket holder drawing
anvthinE The president Of this COM
pany is a naturallzed American citizen
named Duque. He is the owner Of the
only uaner in Panama and his profits
from his $4,000 worth of lottery stock
are about $S5 900 In silver each year.
There Is n chance for "A concession
here for waterworks. Panama II now
supplied with water by peddlers. whr
70 about through the streets, seated
! ON barrel carte, each of which IL pulled
by n mule In the wet season the city
relies on the cisterns. There is. am.
/ told good water in the hills twelve
miles away, and II could easily be piped
| to the city. Panama has about %, 900
people.
THE GOLD MINES OF COLOMBIA.
The idea prevails in the United
| States that the greater part Of South
| America Is low, moist and unhealthful.
| This is not so. There are vast areas
| here which are as saluhrious as any
| part OF North America. Mr.. Kennedy,
an American mining engineer who has
prospected in all parts of our contl-
nent. as well as In many parts OF this.
| tells me that for every habitHhlc square
mile in North America there Is an
| equally rich and healthful square mile
here, and that south OF the equator
| there are vast areas OF undeveloped
| agricultural territory which have not
heen touched. He saye that this is the
| Nlondiko Of the future In gold as well
as in other things, and predicts that
| the eyes Of the world will soon he
| turned southwark. In Colombia most
Of the people live back from the coasts.
4 where there arc plains and valleys of
| vast extent from 1000 to 5000 and more
| feet above the sea. Colombia Is land
| Of gold II is like Alaska in that you
| cannot wash the soil anywhere along
| the rivers without finding what the
| the sands Of the sea In the bay of
| Panama, and though they said they did
| not get much I have been told they
have been doing the same work for
| wears u was here that some of the
81 aniards rot some Of their first gold
; and since the conquest an aggregation