Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-04-30

ing driven out upon the pier to be load
ed for Lima and the ports further
south. and when walking out this morn
ing | took photographs Of the ia,
beayes as they were swung by a der
rick high up in the air and dropped into
the lighter, in which they were taken
to the steamer In the harbor.
WHERE RED COTTON GROWS ON
This is not the best cotton raising
section of Peru, but in every ride
which / take into the country / see
bushes and trees lining the streams
and irrigattng bitches white with cot
ton boils. This is the natural home Of
the cotton plant, and II IL the one place
in the world where ! have found cotton
growing on trees. There are trees of
cotton in Peru fifteen and more feet
high. which produce two or three crops
Of cotton a year. from ten to twenty
which has cotton tree in its back
yard. The cotton from the tree Is suf-
years. There Is little hotel here
fclent. the landlord says to pay for all
the eggs consumed In the hotel. This
native Peruvian cotton IL no. white,
like our cotton. II is of different shades
of brown. some being quite tawny and
some decidedly red in color. The
white cotton is also raised.
The finest quality of rough Peruvian
cotton Is raised In the department OF
Piura, just north of whore | now am.
It grows in the river valleys after the
seven years rain, which there is much
heavier than at Pacasmrvn AT such
times the rivers food the country.
bringing down rich slime from the
mountains, and when the rains have
ceased every one starts to planting
cotton. The demand for labor is such
that many people 70 there at the time
Of the rains for the work which they
ha Id IA Nrp M
are from 20 to 30 cents for day of ten
| hours. Raising this cotton may be
called the luxury of agriculture. The
soil Is go rich that the plants do not
need manurng or tillage. The grounds
| is not Flowed, but holes are dug for
the cotton seeds with a spade, and the
seeds covered up \ plant soon sprouts
and the planters know they are sure of
! three good crops within the next year
or so. The first crop natures in nine
months and the others follow. After
| these three crops there nre irregular
crops from the same plant or tree for
| number of years. The trees grow TO
| hight of fifteen feet and more. All that
| Is necessary is to keep them trimmed
| and pick the cotton. In the lands
| along the river which can be irrigated
! the crops are regular, and from two to
| three crops a year are common. The
| cotton ripens. In fact. throughout most
! Of the year. and You see buds. blossoms
| and cotton wool on the same tree al
| the same time. In the irrigated lands
| the cotton yields 900 and 900 pounds TO
| the acre, and 1t is estimated that the
| growing and ballng cost about 81 gold
| per bale This cotton Is very valuable
| 1t now brings IL cents a pound and has
| brought as high as % cents, 1t outsels
| any other cotton on earth, for 1t Is
used as wool The fiber IL more like
wool than cotton, and when 1t is ginned
nu =i no SO fpp n11 10
used by the manufacturers of hats
| hosiery and underwear to mix with
wool, and Is said to give the articles
| Into which 1t goes finer luster better
! finish. and to render them less liable to
| shrink. The fiber Is longer than any
other. except the Sea Island and the
Egyptian cotton. l am told that the
area in which It will grow is limited.
| Peru is now raising considerable white
| cotton. The first seed planted came.
am told. from Egypt. and the product
| Is said to he very good.
SUNSET ON THE WESTERN PA
| CIFIC.
almost despair of giving you a pic
| ture of the country along these little
irrigated valleys of Peru Nature has
painted things differently here than in
| any other part of the world. Now you
| imagine yourself In Egypt: at the next
step you think of the highlands OF
Mexico, and again are in Southern CAL
| ifornia or on the Pacific coast of Asia.
The very sky is different. am stop
| ping here with Mr.. b. II. Kaufman,
an Ohio man, who came to South
| America twenty odd years ago and
who now has the largest shipping and
| importing business of this part of
| Peru. His house is on the beach, and
waves roll in with a surf like that of
| Atlantic City or Cape May. Every
| evening the sun sets upon the waters
| before US in a blaze of color such as /
have never seen elsewhere. The tints
/ are more gorgeous than those of the
! Indian ocean, and more soft and beau
uful than those of Italy or Greece.
Such colOrs have never been put on
I canvas, and such scenic cfff cts are UNI
known in our part of the world. The
I changes of the sun at Its setting are
wonderful. Ii looks twice as large In
| this clear air as at home. and as 1t
sinks down toward the sea the waters
seem to pull 1t to their surface. so that
II assumes the form of balloon, the
lower end of which Is slowly sub
merged. A moment later the top
spreads out and you have great
1 golden dome resting on the dark blue
horizon, II sinks lower, and the waite ri
turn to gold and silver and the most
| delicate tints of purple and red to
| match the soft bright colors of the
skies. Last night, just before the sun
| went down. we had double ralnhOws
| in the Andes, though there was no sign
| of rain here on the coast The air IA
| so clear that you can see twice ms far
as in the eastern parts Of the United
States, and though It Is now nlldgum-
mer the heat is not oppressive, and we
have a steady sea breeze every after
! noon. There is no better climate any
where than this. and nature. notwfth-
standing the desert, has done much FOR
northern Peru.
LAND OF FRUITS.
l have never been in n land that has
so many varieties OF fruits. We hal
nine differert kinds as our last dlunCr.
! all of which were raised near here.
| There are oranges, bananas. lines and
lemons growing almost side by side
with peaches apples and pears There
are grapes as hard and as luscious as
those of California; cherries. plums,
dates and figs There are waterm lions
! and muskmel5ns suAvas, manages and
ana cherries. We have also the alli-
| gator pear, which has flesh that
looks and tastes not unlike fresh hut
/ ter and Is eaten with salt. Then there
| are the palta, the tumbo and the M :
paya, and In some places there nre
cocoanut and other species Of palm
| trees. In every little town and al
every railroad station there are women
| bedding fruit. and thu prices are such
that you can buy all that you can eat
! Tor a very few cents. The coffee l
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