Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-07-08

tcopyrlshted, 1900. by Frank O. car
ronter)
san Juan Porto Rico. juno 20. i',a.
--uncie SANS West indian garden
patchi How shall I describe itf u o.
different from anything th1t hn7 been
published concerning &c. % hna moro
curious features than any plri OF tho
South American continent where
have been travelling fur the past year
and "a richer coll than almost any part
Of the world
! came 10 Porto Rico N the govern
ment transport Mcpherson, and nave
already crossed the island from one
ride 10 the other making many nf'nr'
slona through the Interior The island
lisa revelation 90 me. have never fo'n
a country in which nature hna done POI
much 20 make a pleasant home Tor
man.
Porto Rico o. O. combination ~ the
beauties Of tho tropics nnd temperate
gone. II n the new Switzerland OF
Uncle Sans dominion, n Lacks per-
hnps the grandeur of the Alps or the
Rockies. but its quiet reml.troplc.l
bcautica moro than mako up for ll'h
Of SHOWS and gigantic rocks, Some
titnca IN going over it / nm reminded
Of Japan. and again I am carried back
20 tho mountains N Coren or the hills
OF china. There are silver streams,
with matched nuts clnEInH Co tho
sides Of the hills. down which they r1in.
there are regions which equal iuo lilur
Ridge mountain in their Huft. hnay
beauty. and other parts in which Wcf,
Il not Tor the hlnnnua. tho c1Cnlnui
palms, the bread fruit trees and other
tropical wondorH you might Imagine
yourself nt home in HutuD NJ the most
beautiful Of our rolling lands
A KITE TAIL VIEW OF PORTO
RICO.
Before ! describe my tour N The ial-
and let mo give you % hlrl a-rle
view ~ a. Suppose we could attach
ourselves for the purpose tn The inll OF
one ~ our weather bureau kites which.
believe. mount higher than any ntlgf
kites made by man aud Ny over a. We
should see n great rectangular BODY ui
blue land rising ms u were. out uf some
OF the quietcat waters of the globe,
Porto Rico ~ about I 800 miles from
New York on the boundary between tne
Atlantic ocean and the Caribbean Hon
II Hes between the Islands uf Sunio
Domingo and a. Thomas. II o. Hu near
the latter island that you can steam
there In about nix hours. and Hp f1r on4l
~ cuba that u takes our best trans
ports two days 90 go from Ponce, ur
the south. 90 the city N Santiago.
Porto Rico. aH We ren % from uui
kite iH mass OF rolling hills with thl
exception ~ % Hight green fringe hur'
dcring the coast II IN all hills and val
Toys And such hills ana such valleys
The hills slope up in places like wallis
and the valleys uro gigantic capital W.
With mountain streams dunhlur thruugl
them Everything ~ covered viii
green. tho dark shades ~ tho noun
tninH largely composed of cufsae, tuh1c
co and bananas while the siCkly greer
~ the coastal plains comes from th'
sugar plantations
In looking at the island you SEQ thn
the hills rise higher in the crntrr. d
N divided by mountain chnln. which
runs through u from west 90 east
branching out near the end M tw,
spurs This ridge looks Just like
pitchfork with two great tines and
long handle. Tho Joint NJ the fork h
about sixty miles from the western en-.
81 the island. and each Of the tines D
about forty miles long Not fr from
where they i0in ono green mountain
rises hiFh above tho others. This d
m Yunaue. or the Anvil" tho hlghos
point IN Porto Rico. ~ a. 5000 Zoe