Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-06-16

land suitable FOR plneapplcs and banana
growing be- would go 20 New orleans
and get the Wholesale fruit dealers,
who ruled the American markets
thirty years ago. TO agree 20 buy 81
uOO,Qu1 "a year of Guatemala fruits
The Guatemala government gladly ac-
cepted the proposition. In less than
three months the deal was consum-
mated az Nuw orleans. II was the
beginning of the trade IN millions Of
dollars annually.
no make long story short. Juan
KNIGHT got other concessions, as he
demonstrated the profit there was In
growing fruit for the United States
market The shipping business 20 New
York and San Francisco was started
and enormously enlarged. by 1851
the negro was the largest employer u
labor IN northern Guatemala. Where
n multitude " white men had given
up IN despair ever trying 60 Ect work
ont ~ the lazy. improvdcut and care
less natives ~ the rural regions,
knights experience among thc slaves
stod him IN good stead. iio was ia
nous for the zcnl he Impaired 10 am
who inborcd FOR him Ifr married
native young woman In Stapn. iu
1879 and the union has been great
holm Co his fortunes About twenty
years ago be- Induced New England
capital 60 embark extensively In
coffoo growing in Guatemala, and In
vested hts own capital IN the Industry.
The government give him o. very adj
ynut1gcouH shipping concession Tor his
Efforts IN brlnginr capital io the coun-
try. Coffee growing proved wonderfully
rpmuuuratlvp fOf u dozen years. The
negro planter hruuohad ONT iu other
directions fie won't 60 Philadelphia
and contracted Co furnish many thou
sands uf feet of mahogany yearly for
ton ynarr.
There Dr. another eide NJ this uncom-
mon man. ile has hon liberal patron
of Educational measures. iiu % withtl
plain modest man. who ls not known
by sight very f1f from homo. We ~
/ tan ami slender ANA shows the effects ~
hard work and constant care and
thought concerning hi4 enormous husl-
ness Interests.
/ Thor ufa sevrn children IN Juan
l Eulrhfs home and 800 have boon rdu-
| Gated ir the United states Two ~ the
| boys are in military academy in NI4-
HiHf.rpI now one daughter lH nm pr-
/ c0mpIahed portrait painter ln BOSTON.
I once wear the father and mother rn
I nn n trip tn Now orleans. and from
I thafr O, New York They were ih Lu-
. rome ln 1906
| Tho Influence OF Juan KNIGHT the me-
! rru Millionaire. n foit everywhere in
| che commercial and financial domain NJ
| guHs0mpinHif NOT M every part ~ Cen.
/ tri America. His advice is sought IN
! ON financial projects ~ the government
/ when 70 syndicate ~ capitalists sends
/ a. Guatemala Tor AN expression ~ 1pln.
/ Jon ruurHrnir % bond ISSUE iu Central
| America. thir wonderful ,N.Hltyr On con.
! HultadaimOHf first NJ ali WHOM tho
/ guHft mninnH nearly came ~ arms win
/ Mexico two years arn. Juan knight was
! universally looked 90 hy the natives ~
orsrt peace Mis- bank IN Guatemala
] CITY o. about tha Hn iidrst iu thp cnun.
| try So great a. tho confidence fu hiH
/ integrity th1t Some n his oldest labor.
orc drHw thHir pay but once in n halt
vU1r Tho millionaire planter and ri'nei
W Guatemala h1H several limos visited
ihn plantation ~ TnllapnDat county
/ Ala. whore h. wns horn Hn1 raised
about him md remember ~ childhood
IN is's when H. WIS In - ltvii'o. NJ
mot mo son NJ hia FIRST m1etfr DAME
Upton. iiH had NOT forgotten hon
Mnss'r and Misses Upton tnurhi him e
read ana write. and 1il the pretty rrivii
ioras thnv had shown thrir ch1tta' Ntti,
Black john. So whnt did iho cNss'Hvt
hny DO hu' employ George linton. n sHf
NJ knights early master. 90 go d1a--
o. Guatemala and b. n superintendent
~ the mines Not only that Tho OK.
slave found that h. widow M his old
master was sick and IN a financial iiH
tross IN Mobile, and he forthwith invest