The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-14
PEOPLE GLAD 70 BE AMERICAN
CITIZENS.
Good Opinion of Them Expressed by
an ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in the
Island-What is Needed
special Correspondence OF mo star.

Special Correspondence of The STAR
AGANA (Guam), August SO.--After
waiting for over year the long look
ed for Governor r. Z. Leary arrived
here August 3, and everything is now
moving along nicely. The Brutus with
Lieutenant Governor Stafford, arrived
a few days later. The Governor is now
fixing up the old palace and will occu-
py it when completed. He has issued
u proclamation that none but Ameri-
can citizens will be allowed to buy
land. | mention this for the benefit Of
foreigners who may contemplate COM
ing here.
If some one would come here with
a schooner and trade between the ISL
ands he would do WELL and if he had
good business tact he could make a
fortune. l should be glad to see a
number of good decent people come
here. If any of the other sort propose
to come, tell them we have a surplus
of their kind now which we would like
to ship away.
On March II last a party of nine of
us sailed from Honolulu on the Bessie
f.. Stevens. We arrived here April ..
| find the climate similar to that of
Honolulu, but there are not so many
mosquitoes. 1t rains more here and the
island is always green. Guam contains
about 200 square miles of territory.
Agana is the capital. The population
of the island is about 5000. The people
are mixture of ChemorO and Spanish,
and to my mind are far ahead of your
native Hawaiians. They are proud of
being under the American flag. | know
of no place in the United States where
more quiet and peaceable people can
be found.
There is no doctor here except an
old Spanish horse doctor. We have
been expecting some missionaries but
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good people of Honolulu that in place
of spending their money to send old
10 CastinO down here as a missionary
they would have done better to have
taken the money and shipped him off
to the home for the feeble minded.
Full blooded white Americans are the
only kind wanted. This people are too
far advanced for any but capable peO-
pie to have influence, or do efficient
work among them
a number of good people could find
good homes here where they could
make money if they had few hundred
dollars to start with. But this is no
place for "old stiffs" or dead beats. If
a man will work four hours a day here
he can make good living, better than
he can in any place in the United
States.
Cocoanuts, rice and corn are the
principal products of the country. Co
bear at five years. 1t is claimed that
the trees will pay from fifty cents to
dollar per year apiece. When the CO.
coanut gets ripe it falls off the tree
You pick it up, open it, take out the
inside of the nut, dry it in the sun and
sell the copra for four cents a pound.
Now | am offered a cent apiece for my
cocoanuts as they fall from the tree,
and | have many trees that will go
over fifty nuts to the tree. The trees
bear two crops year.
Rice and corn are grown only for
home consumption. All kinds of tropi-
cal fruits will grow here.
Land is as yet very reasonable in
price. l paid from $40 to 800 an acre.
In time land will be very high.
A portable saw mill would pay here.
| There are large tracts of good hard
wood timber All lumber is whl..-
sawed by hand. II would pay to snip
| this lumber to the states and swap it
for pine lumber and ship that back
| here for sale. Owing to the lack of
| transportation there is no store here
worthy of the name, and goods are
| high. A stock of light goods and gro
ceries would pay big.
1t is now the rainy season but it will
| be over in thirty days. 1t is not dis
agreeable. l rather enjoy it. The
weather is cool and nice and is not un-
healthy.
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