The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1898-12-08
opportunities in Jamaica.

-r-snoudence of The Journal
r.WN. JAMAICA, Oct. goth.
IDS. fertile island has belong
,ftaiu about two hundred
s and has been tolerably
~ .M during all that time, its
s .aur, are becoming more and
t-- .Utaged concerning the business
19 Jssy talk glibly enough of the
.,' .s-,al resources OF their island,
.. -srae breath will tell you that
ga unger any inducements to
l Jennings for your younger
declare TINT ruin stares them in
nrs- immediate reciprocity
hrr M IN equal footing with
lands which share in the
-u If expansion.
ulested outsider, it looks as
...u -, this lamentable state of
we'll known bull headed
.s.rl-e Briton. Most of the
liza Jamaica still persist
To- the exclusion of every
... nu-h now a days there is
.. j The sugar plantations
..... Atcut. and time was when
. Was SO easy and profitable
.... ..n.- thereof could remain
Nelseers in charge. But
during the last decade,
..-- lave reported smaller and
.,arns, always hoping for
u.z, time. and each succeed
.. egulaIly proved a little
asst. Absent proprietors
. .t.tiSion, bounties, hostile
-. ove all the production of
s- aee conspired to bring about
results and now that Cuba
ro, with their unrivalled
.H--s Lave passed into energetic
ar5s Is, lamaica's mis- managed
-, te along to the bow vows
-pv -han ever. Already the
a~ ppeallng to the government
fixing Of grants in aid and
a- duties; but the truth is
l e-lument feels the pinch as
private individual, the
..e sugar product of course
production of that famous
ad-by, Jamaica rum, the
axes on which used to be
'-teHue of the island.
1gi>hmen are moodily fore
md blaming the home
America, and Colonial
dl-rlaln. for what is clearly
" -t and the happy go-lucky
lel natives of the tropics,
lJtd with what nature
few Americans are quietly
0aations for solid fortunes
iAcm have invested a good
island enterprises. They
number of abandoned or
ations, for 1.-THE of the
Desides inaugurating new
starting afresh several /
es with their accustomed |
Years ago an American
sed tue government rail !
miles long, which runs
to- nowhere in particular;
-. NueIs Immediately invested .
YI.Hs IN extensions, which.
... will open up tile richest
....4. As well as some of the
a ~ tropical scenery in the |
Gd.
w1n Of my acquaintance |
-.- to the raising of oranges
t-ue ago, and last season
.NNlo&es of them from Jamaica
ana cleared a dollar box
Uugh oranges grow wild on
ua have never before been
commerce. there are few
ch produce finer ones, and
s climate is better adapted
Another of my country
ne fortune in plantains:
-et potatoes, and another in
NJ latter spontaneous growth 4
'1nderfully in Jamaica, and I
ST no limit to the uses to
-t be put, from the building of
making OF carts and furni-
anY experiments, and almost
lures, our ! dnkee TREND
at bamboo fibre has certain
-ucompressible properties,
Hs-s without a rival for some
SO he built big factory away
'-aeE rver, in the interior of the
W et,led down to the converting
"' ore into what is known as
"s TOR the wheels of railway
If is said to be the very best
l'N .sed for that purpose, holding
big 'ponge, never hardening and
'eaIH s out; and the demand for it
't.l il Europe and America.
-JaAees show more originality
If -"l- Of Britain in their ways of
--.iing, and are always on the
new avenues Of enterprise.
" vent into sugar raising and
rum and molasses-do not
he field in disgust, or sit
-'"Wl, as the Englishmen do