The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-10

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as BIZ. as Peek Measures and Can BE Raised by
the Miuion-Cocoanut Groves and Ho" They
Are Managed-UncIe SANS Banana Land-Porto
Rican Vegetables York Markets
Copyrighted 1889 by Frank G. Carpenter
MAYAGUEZ. Porto Rico Aug, 20-Would you
like to own an orange grove?
If so come to Porto Rico The rich, golden fr'ilt
grows here without cultivation. There is no need or
irrigation as in California and for Jack Frost his
name is unknown There are only 1,400 miles Of
smooth water between San Juan and New York, and
in The near future there will be lines Of fruit steam
als which will dump your product into the best OF
markets.
Al present the oranges grow almost wild and
You can buy the best at less than 1 cent apiece L
am ted that they could be sold at 81 thousand ana
give big profit and fruit men say they could be
skipped to the United States and sold there at l.
cents dozen and still pay the growers, the shippers
and dealers
UNCLE SANS FRUIT GARDEN.
Porto Rico promises to be Uncle Sans choicest
fruit garden Barring hurricanes such that of last
month"; which do not than once in 4 gen
Grafton, we have no land well favored Oranges.
lemons and piDeappes grow almost wild and with
careful cultivation they can be produced in great
quantities. 1t seems to the best chance i'll Porto
Rico for men with small capital is in fruit growing
If some of our small investors would form syndi1aes
of ter OF dozen each and come down here and buy
orange groves they could soon build up industry
which would pay them enormous dividends. One
man could do but little for enough fruit would have
to raised in locality to furnish shploads foH the
steamers. But in combination settlements Of this
kind could be made all over the island ana Il VAST
business established.
+ he They
have grown up where the seeds have dropped and
have been neither budded cultivated. They are
of many varieties being full of juice and as
sweet as any orange of Florida California. The
trees are exceedingly thrifty. They grow every
where but the best places back from the coast
the foothills of the mountains.
FLORIDA MEN IN PORTO RICO
The frost of last year, which killed the orange
trees of Florida has brought number of men from
that state to Porto Rico They are investigating
the fruit conditions here, and Of them buy
ing land and planting out orchards One man has
bought GEO not far from San Juan. He expects
to give up his plantation in Florida and will begin
planting oranges and pineappes this fall \ Mr.
Averill Of Ogdensburg n Y, has bought 120 acres,
which he expects to plant in oranges and pineaprles
and there is a colony of young Americans who are
establishing fruit farms on the east coast.
one Of the best-posted men [ have met here is
Mai : S Harvey of Pensacola. Fla Maj. Harvey
is well known among the hortcultrists of the United
States. He has been at the head of some Of the
leading horticultural societies of the South aud his
pear orchard near Pensacola Melted him more than
$4,000 year for many years. He came to Porto
Rico Il paymaster, but is thinking seriously of go
Ing into orange growing large scale.
one Of his plans is to establish nursery
CGamo and there raise orange trees to meet the
orange-Iaisng boom which will probably be here
within a few years. He has already bought the
land for his nursery and he thinks that he
will have 100000 trees ready for sale within four
years from He takes the oranges they fail
from the buying them by the tens of thousands,
and drops them just you drop potatoes, drilling
them along the and covering them up.
The oranges and the seeds sprout up. With
in three weeks they will be through the ground and
when they are six inches high they will be trans
planted in rows the being six inches apart.
After they year old they will be budded from
the best Florida fruit and the result will be tens Of
thousands of the finest young orange trees of best
Florida varieties. This is the way trees are grown
in the nurseries Of Florida and the business
ceedingy profitable The trees are ready for sale at
two years and they be sold from then on for
three four, five more years They will bring ac>
cording their age and size all the way from 81 to
SO tree. If the rush to Porto Rico comes, Maj
Harvey expects it will be that his nursery will
him fortune. 1t is believe, far the only
started the island.
PROFITS OF ORANGE GROWING
| chatted with Maj. Harvey about orange grow
Ing in Porto Rico. He tells me that good orange
lands can be bought for from $50 to 500 per acre
and that man can make fortune out of a hundred
acres. Said he:
Il think that hundred-acre grove should paw
a man from $20G00 TO $4,000 year at the end of
six years. He would have to here and handle
the property himself He would use the poems as
laborers. They superior to our negroes and they
can be hired for from % to 80 cents a day The
man should not expect to do anything himself but
boss the job and furnish the brains" I think that
syndicates could also do WE'LL and the larger the
capital the better the investment There is an Amer
lean fruit company which is making a great deal
of money out Of Jamaica fruits. Within q wear from
there will be no tariff on fruit brought from
Porto Rico to the United States and this island will
lead the others of the West Indies in time it's fruit
exports
Il believe continued Maj. Harvey chat this is
of the richest islands of the world in its natural
possibilities You raise anything here that you
raise California Florida. and many things