Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-05-07

some years ago. when the heart was
cut out of the sugar business. Many
of the plantations changed hands and
Lura Fico II now owned by an English
syndicate which has tens of thousands
OF acres of sugar lands. The factory
of Lura Fico made 5000 tons of sugar
last year, and 1t will make more this
The factory alone cost 100000. and the
improvements on the estate have foot
ed up more than million. The most
of the machinery was imported from
Philadelphia. and the machine shops
and foundry are nwo using steel plates
which they import from the United
states. This is so Notwithstanding the
fact that the owners are English. The
estate uses steam plows. harrows and
cultivators, and noticed that the plow
points were made at Hartford. The
cane IL hauled from the fields to the
factories by steam engines over q port
able railroad, and all sorts of modern
economical machinery IL employed.
There are now over sixty sugar
factories on the coast region of
Peru. and in the neighborhood OF
gOoOO,00O Is invested In the business.
The amount produced Is about 1G5 0O0.-
900 pounds year. The labor Is the
native Peruvian Indian, who receives
from nifty to eighty cents in silver a
day, or from rs to 40 cents of our
money.
AMONG THE Poems.
1 wonder how an American tenant
would look II he We're offered place
on one of these Peruvian farms. re-
fer more especially to those on the
smaller estates. / went into one of tho
houses on a plantation near here to-
day. 1t is a sample of thousands all
through Peru. The hut was made Of
canes and you could see out through
the cracks on all sides. The floor was
of dirt and the roof Of reeds. being on
ly needed 10 keep out the sun There
was in the house but one room, about
Is feet square, In one corner n wooden
platform about as high as your knees
furnishes the sleeping place for the
heads of the family; the children slept
on tho floor In another corner was
the family cook stove, two stones
placed Just wide enough apart to allow
an earthen cooking pot to rest on
them. There were no windows, no
chimneys, and with the exception of a
soap box. no furniture. In this house
a family of six dive, and ] doubt not
deem themselves happy. Their chick
ems and goats live with them. and all
they want is enough to eat and drink
and chance to get drunk now and
then. These people seem to have no
ambition whatever. They work hard
and are perfectly satisfied. Their en-
ployers furnish them, In addition to
two pounds of rice daily, and they al
low them to run up such bills at the
store on the estates as keep them al
ways In debt to their masters Our
farmers could not work on such RAJ
tions as these men have. They take
upon rising glass OF pisco or native
whisky, and go to work without break
fast. This Is at about s o'clock in the
morning. This whisky serves them
until il am. when they knock off for
lunch. or for what is here called break
fast. This usually consists of stew
OF goat meat and rice. At / o'clock
they go back to work, and at 6 stop for
the day. When they get home they
have another stew of meat and rice.
and perhaps piece or so of bread.
After dinner they sit about and talk.
and at or o'clock lie down in the
clothes which they have worn all day
and go to sleep. They have no educa-
ton and not one in n hundred of them
can read. Their dress costs them al