The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-01

where outside the Philippines ana also
that The business IS already IN s1ch few
hands that IL might easily he consolidate
ed or SO manipulated that the exporters
could ne forced into shs combination.
This man told me that many ~ the hemp
planters are in debt, and 10 seemed -
have little doubt Of has success IN the or
ganizattop Of s. possible syndicate As ~ T
the facts however. ! am not sure. ard
the large amount ~ undevolopea terri
tory would lead TO the superstition that
such a trust might be future In the Do
velepneut which VII probably cnfns
through the American occupation. AT
present no systematta combination of
hcmp planters has been organized. Tho
business Is almost entirely in the hands
OF the natives ana The snAniards. very
few Of the estates being owned by tbs
friars.
Orro-.unffes for o4r1erca7s ~ Aceur,a-
late Fortunes.
uEMP raising does not. like sugar rais-
I'll ing, require large capital. A man
must. ii Is true, have enough TO support
himself for the three wears required 70
bring the plants iato bearing ont "itcr
that an outlay Of Jew dollars Viii tNr-
nish him with all the machinery he needs.
and he can. as l have said as far as Ia
Dor Is concerned. rum his plantation On
shares Even II he rays for his tanof he
will not give his hands more than II or ~
cents a day. In Manila, where wages are
at their top notch. the manager Of tho
largest hemp warehouse told mo he was
ma wing amounts equal to - 60 40 cents
gold. and he evidently thought these rates
exceedingly high.
II seems to me that hemp raising Will.
after matters are settled, form one OF
the best opening for American capit&i.
t.aas "a -
be set out 10 the acre. am told ths
plants can oe bought for about cent
apiece Each plant should produce aonat
two ounces of fibCr, and IT scieutihcatl*
treated Il might he made 70 produces
more Two men can. II is said harvest
about 500 pounds week. ana this 81
present rates would be worth about so
t<,tver1 1 cannot give the details bat I
have baen told nv number of planters
that from - 70 80 per cent. is not an uh~
common rrohl. and that II care 10 used
in gathering the crop the proats might
be sttl larger
AZ present a great deal OF the hetnp
goes 10 waste. on account Of the ruas
machinery used in it's extraction, but 80
far all attempts 10 improve upon tAS
present methods have been failures.
There have been numerous machines In
vented. hut all have either torn the nber
or stained Il. and there is still rcod
chance for Yankee Ingenuity
II f. said that the English who have at
tempted hemp raising have failed heeAurs
they have not been able 10 haneie this
workmcn and that only the natives or
the Standards can us. the Iatipino iasn~
with proat II might be the same with
American planters As TO our pruple
working the crop themselves. doubt
very much whether they can do 50 sue
cesafusy in e;his eiruate. ~ fpr ms
grow tired very. quickly, and and that
most Americans rust feap ~ out Of mo
! Gun during a great part Of the day.
As 10 tie r.4ceA ~ hemp lands, this
/ depends largely upon ihe location nv
! owners md the tiile. In Mndahno inc
! most Of the ianNa SIN belong to the gov
eminent. only Rtrtp bare Apd thsts
I about the coast being under cahvahun-
In the provinces OF payAu, which - JiE-
/ ger than New Jersey, there ~ not, ! wwu~
tare, rs much cultivated land 80 Htnn
I will find In any one az ohia'a eighty ~eiEhe
/ counties. The rest all RelangA 10 fhs
/ United states government There arc
/ government lands on others 81 the ISL
nnaR and among them Wild ianGA ~Airn
could be cleared for henp
The most serious question as 10 all
lands, however. r. that ~ titles had
/ n chat at Zamh0anga with Mai MORT
son. the Judge advocate. who has been
I looking into such matters lie tells nas
that IN the night which the insWrrestus
/ IT aludanma had with this Sgualar4a all
the records we're destroyed before ms
/ Americans came. and that tbs evidences
az titIe in most eases have baen lost lts
says however that all HutafteN were 81
I CURED 80 report the deeds they executed
in Manila, and that from The Manila rsft-
ores many ~ the disputed titles can fas
established nsd that tha records hRyss
( been destroyed ia tha island If t'auHT
ANA IA other ulaces. and the vice prsAl-
( dente here tells the that but iittls % tias
! land fn this part - Mlndanao IL legaav
owned Even IN the town ~ HaRaa the
/ most ~ tbs people ATS but @auAttsf :.
! The gpAnlMrda Hld not question sl4s~
/ rights as lonw az they paid De taNes,
and IL has tesn the saHtf elth inads
+ taken ZIP Ia the country, II Ia question:
who really owns the biR hemp a'snts-
/ ton which ! visited arm ipid That tss
Chinesa merchants have ia The paAt f4s@
months been laying clain 20 eyerYitgus
Ia their feach rs C0ttahatp Rud 9iter
r4aces SO that much - ia laHA naw
supposed To have prapFietata wall need
+ rs 20 Into the courts before tie awnsr-
+ ship caa ~ dennueiY established
FRANK O. CARPENTER