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

there are. Il is said, only about 100000
acres IN coffee,
rhe most Of the coa,e lands are In
comparatively small tracts. Il takes
money to operate n coffee plantation,
and for this reason the ordinary man
cannot manage "a large crop. The aver
nre estate " not over lfty acres. ni-
though there nrc some which uge much
larger. There ls man nnmp1 Shredder
for Instance, who has % thousand acres.
and who Or putting ont more every
year Tie had not ~ large capital but
he bought cheap land ana put in his
FIRST trees I'm 1894 iic has already had
profit OF $1,000 this year from hia
plantation. and Dc has thousands of
young trees coming on. sud within ten
years his Income ulll be 10000 "a year.
There Dr. n Dutchnnn from Java who
hna Just gone into the cOncc business
here who VIII soon have "a similarly
large property. a1d there are othor
men who ore quietly buying up concc
lands.
PRICES or LANDS.
And this brings me 90 the subject n
land values. The conditions have been
Ho uunatticd that 10 is hard 90 say Just
what they are. ! have asked many
quoatlona and have boon answered that
coffee lands are worth all the way from
$50 TO 500 per acre. I have heard Of
acre. but this a. Tor rich plantations IN
bearing.
some Of the cheaper lands are back
from the roads and 80 situated that u
" costly 10 get the coffee TO market.
The value ~ such lands will BE- Ercat-
~ Increased by the new roads which
the government n contemplating.
Many of the large plantations, both
sugar and once. are owned by nom
residents, Some are the property 81
Barcelona Jews ana other rich SPAN
inrdn They have been paying wcll
and u n doubtful whether they can b.
bought cheap. I am told that the
Spuniarda consider their land Of more
value since the Americans have taken
possession. Among those n "a spanish
officer who commanded IN tho recent
war. He was rolr~ 20 sell out his porto
Ricnn property and so back 90 Spain.
no. / prefer TO stay here and give
up my pension. The change Of govern
ment will Increase the value ~ my
propcrtyand l can't aford to let Il 60"
MoRTuAGED ESTATES.
on the other hand there are many
cOfrc properties which are heavily
mortFugcd Interest rates here run
from ten per cent upward, ana one aud
two per cont a month are common. The
war has materially retarded an kinds
OF huhlunHHt uilu hA lINNfNA HNlll' OF ANN
| planters are 40 crampcd that they want
10 sell. There " "a good chance 20 buy
the mortgnrcd notes, and the man who
brings his money here nnd loans Il TO
those Porto iilcan c0noc mon viii vet
high rates Of Interest, and Ia time have
u chance at the land Itself
No ono should come 10 raise coffee
without he has enough 90 buy his land
and 60 keep himself and HE wurkman
| for the FIRST four years. He should have
! us much aH 10000 90 establish almost
any kind OF a plantation. and above
/ that the moro the better, lie could not
| take "a hundred acres Of land and bring
| II into coffee bearing within i've years
for much less than $4,000. a. the end
/ OF that time his profits would come In
rapidly. and he would probably be- able
20 make from fifteen 10 twenty-five per
cent on his Investment FOR many years.
HOW COFFEE Is GROWN IN PORTO
RICO.
So FAR have seen no wen cultivated
coffee plantations In Porto Rico. In
| Brazil the coffce estates are Ike gar
deus. The trees are trimmed They
grow ia great bushes IN regular rows
which are pluwcd and hoed and kept
| free from weeds. The plants aro first
grown In nurseries and carefully set
out. Here most OF the plants arc from
the seeds which fan to the ground.
| They ARE set our without order. being
shaded for the frHt year by banana