Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-07

nuts with sugar plantations scattered
here and there through H. The soil "a
exceedingly rich, and It produces enor-
mously,"
COFFEE AND FRUITS.
How about fruits, lleutenantg' said
/.
u believe almost any kind Of tropical
fruit will grow, but none are cultivated.
We have bananas which grow wild. and
a fruit which the people call the mar
anga but which Is not an orange. Il
Is Of the shape and color Of the orange,
but is about twice as large as the grape
fruit or shaddock which we have In our
home markets. We have also bread
fruit, but no oranges so Tar as ! know.
There are coffee plantations In Antique,
but they do not raise enough 20 make
coffee figure largely as one OF the eX-
ports from the island. Before the war
about 81 500 900 worth Of stun was eX-
ported from lloilo annually The prov
iuce OF Capiz produced half this
amount. and Antique still less. There
Is considerable tobacco raised and some
indigo. as well as cacao, or chocolate,
and hemp ! believe the land to be ex-
ceedingly rich. and doubt not II could
be made 10 yield many times as much
as It does"
THE MOUNTAINS OF PANAY.
"How about the mountains"
I'VE passed through them on our
march across the island. They are
generally wooded. and are supposed TO
be unlnhablted. on account Of the ma
larla. except by naked nomadic saw
ages. The mountains are generally
about 1900 or 5000 feet high, although
in places they rise 10 1900 and 5000
feet. Mt. BaclOy Is said 20 be 5,6l5 feet,
or higher than Mount Washington"
"Do you hear OF any gold being dis
covered In the mountains ! asked.
Yes. I hear OF it. but l really have
no positive knowledge about IT, was
the reply. There Ia black sand in
every stream you cross, and the Span
iards claimed that there was gold In
the sands OF the Cababaya IN the prov
ince OF Capiz. II Is said there are
quicksilver deposits in the same prov
ince and that copper exists In An
tiQue These matters will have TO be
settled by the prospector and by the
government biologists. Just now We
have our hands fun in trying TO keep
the people quiet. ] can only say that
the land looks remarkably rich, and
that il can be cultivated high up In the
mountains. The climate IL, as FAR as /
have seen. not unhealthful but the peo-
pie are semi-ciyilized and hard TO con-
troll"
THE DISTRICT OF THE VIsAYANs.
This military district Is that Of the
Visayan Islands. IL embraces the
larger Islands of the middle OF the arch
ipelago lying between Luzon on the
north and the Mohammedan Islands OF
Mindanao and Sulu on the south. II
embraces some Of the richest and most
thlckly populated parts Of the Philip
pines. and a number Of large Islands
which are noted for their products OF
sugar. hemp and for their possibilities
in the way OF coal and other minerals.
Cebu, for instance, Is a great hemp
raising region. Samar produces sugar
rice and coffee, Negros, which / can
see from lloilo. has some OF the best
sugar plantations. and the island OF
Bohol is noted for It's pearl fisheries.
These islands are populated by ar
ferent people from the Tagalos, VINO
are the rebels Of LuzOn, known as the
Visayans. They have a different IAN
guage and customs. but In most OF the
islands they have united with the Ia
galOs 10 oppose our troops. They are
not as aggressive az the Tagalos, put
are quite as vicious IN many Of their
ways and are Of about the same grade
OF intelligence and civilization, both OF
which / should say are decidedly low
Both people are naturally untrust-