Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-08-05

cleaned It must be graded. In some Of
the factories this ls done by machinery
the coffee being run over wire screens
with moshes Of different sizes. The lit
Tie round beans which form the very
best ~ the product. and which look Just
like Mocha coffee. drop into one bag.
The larErst OF the nnt-aided beans 80
into another and other grades into
other bags
Machines. however. do not take out
the bad grains. This must be done by
the cuffcc sorters. In every large Porto
Bicnn factory you ind women picking
over the coffee grains and separating
tho good from the bod. In tho smaller
factories the picking " done sitting ON
the floor before n low box covered with
cloth In the larger ones there are long
tables cut up into little boxes By many
partitions, and before each box a Porto
Rlcan girl sits with pile 81 green cof-
Zee beans before her. She picks these
over and over. handling coffee from
sunrise until sunset
During my stay IN Porto Rico Wis.,
tied factories who're hundreds % these
girls were sorting cnffce I made some
photographs ~ them at work. much 20
The ninunomont NJ NO.. They arc black.
eyed. brown-shnued mnidong with eyes
nH laughing as The italian coffee pick
ere Of Hr1gll. not r. Few show signs N
negro blood. and some are quite black
They sling ns they work uud are owl
IDENTIFY not dissatisfied with their con-
| dlilun Their wages are ON the aver
age less than 90 cents day.
At THE COFFEE PORTS.
The transportation OF the coffee to tho
rcaports 10 one OF the most Important
factors IN the Industry. Much of the
coffee land o. Tar iu the Interior. with
mountain ranges between 10 and tho
places ~ shipment Some VI 10 De- along
tho military road. This lH shipped upon
bullock cnrts=grcnt two-whoolcd az
fairs drawn by four ur i've yoke Of
oxen und carrying enormous loads.
The coffee In the other mountain re-
ElnnB n taken 20 the coast uuuu ponies.
about 900 pounds being packed on tho
| back of each animal. often you Will
geo long Ole ~ those little ponies thus
loaded crawling up and down the noun
| tain road Sometimes an owner aitH on
the top III his pony and noga him along
/ the way
Tho packs are often roughly nut on
/ 20 that they rub tho skin from the
backs of the ponies and when the loads
/ nre. removed great raw sore patches urc
/ 60 be seen. ON. OF our army officers.
/ who n IN charge no the coffee port NJ
/ huaco. yndo1vorcd 10 prevent this
/ cruelty He took the packs IN the
/ beasts and fined each driver OF sore
/ horse, g. putting hiH horse In the
pound until cured. This created great
sensation among the farmers. and uf-
| ter few days the coffee ceased 20 como
| In. The business 81 Yuuco fell on and
the merchants complained that the on .
Ger was hurting the town. Tpon lnyrr.
tigatlon ~ was discovered that tho
| planters were shipping their coffee ~
the port Of ArccibO ON the north coast.
| The onlccr nt NnuCp wrote Co ArDrlhi
ana tried 20 stop this. lie also made
q complaint 20 General Henry. who was
thrn IN charge. but hiH complaint was
not noticed AMI he was forced O. allow
thr cruelty 20 go on.
At present concc ~ brought IN this
way 10 an the ports. II d there con.
signed 10 the large coffee dealers. who
ship 10 20 the markets ~ Europe
FRANK q. CARPENTER.