The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-30
OUR BOYS At MANILA
GOLD IN THE PHILIPPINES
The opaniards and the Natives WerO
Too Lazy 70 Work the Mines.
Ebony and Mahogany In
the Forests.

Luke Kennedy. who Is serving his
country in the Philippines, writes as
follows to his father. w. J. Kennedy.
under date OF Oct. 10:
II am feeling well and we are far
more comfortably situated here h
We were in either Frisco or Helena.
We have good buildings for quarters
and are allowed to do as we please be-
tween drills. which onsume about an
hour, in the morning and three-quar-
tiers of an hour in the evening. We
haysr@r general commissary where we
can get q great many things which
help the fare out wonderfully. The
natives have eggs and chickens to sell
quits, cheap.
VERY little hard labor is done here
by the whites. 1t il too hot for them.
The natives work for a Mexican dollar
a day. or 80 cents I'm our money. 1
ave not Eeen any mineral here yet,
but / met a native who had been edu-
Gated in Hong Kong and who spoke
English very well and he said there Is
gold on the sland. He said that the
Spaniards and Fflipinos were too lazy
to work the mines. 1t is a very low
eAlt h@eA NV 1@e Soo9kF eet
20 miles back there are high noun
tains. The timber here Is very hard.
Mahogany Is used for everything by
the Spaniards. The natives make their
houses out of bamboo. We have been
tearing down Did buildings for fire.
wood inc nave burned up hundreds of
dollars worth of mahogany. Ebony also
grows on this island i will send you
an ebony and %cocoanut wood cane. The
natives are small brown people and
seem smart enough when IL comes to
getting more o out of the Ameri-
cans. I know nothing about the re-
sources of the interior OF the island.
The Spaniards grow large quantities of
rice. hemp, sugar etc. A few white
men here had enough money to start a
saloon and they are making money by
the barrel. We are still at Cavite. but
are going to Manila in a few days. The
18th infantry, which relieves us. took
our quarters N we are temporarily
quartered in another building. 1 do not
think we will be home this winter. Good
cigars sell here for 1 or 2 cents: cigar
cites. 30 for 2 cents. All the natives
| smoke cigarettes. even infants scarcely
able to walk. Oranges and bananas
grow wild. The bananas are fine, but
the oranges are not nearly as good as
those in America. The skins are green,
while the inside Is ripe. The natives
make their houses. hats. wagons I'M
neariy arr aI,icies -
announcer Ie,'ef Mhicn ~ $500.
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