The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-03

ing the land judge to visit the prop
erty and make a report upon It, If II
appears to be all right I take the evil
dence of the witnesses and grant the
title Of pOsse6s0rship. This is called
information pOsesOria. In order that
in any future dispute regarding owner
ship the courts may recognize the va
lidity of the title. il must be entered in
the register Of property The paper is
brought To the register Of deeds and
titles, who cites all of the neighboring
adjacent prOprietOrs TO appear and sign
sworn statements corrOborating the
statements of the owner and witnesses.
and agreeing to the boundaries estab-
lishments and measurements Of said
property. Thus future trouble les avoid
ed. Often these neighbOrs refuse to
sign, sometimes because the petitioner
for the title TO the land is attempting
to encrOach upon territory claimed by
them, and sometimes because they say
the land rightfully belongs to some
body else, or should be shared by all
the heirs of the mans father.
In this way we are pretty sure that
no mistake is made.
We greatly need teachers in our
public schools. We have appointed the
only person here who seemed fitted for
the place. the wife Of an American who
came here to settle. She is the only
English teacher in our public schools.
/ wish we had more. We also greatly
need a civil engineer. He could help
me much in the measurement of land,
and could acquire much good land in
payment of his fees 1t would be better
for him to work on his own account.
and not &c a government employee. so
/ that he could be entirely independent.
We also need a photographer and a
/ dentist, both Of whOr4 could. ] think, be
/ kept busy.
THE great difficulty here is the lack
/ Of laboreTs. Every native is a land
/ owner and farmer. A man may know
I how to bake bread make shoes or
/ build house, yet such thing as a
/ regular baker. shoemaker or carpenter
/ is unknown in Guam. You may be
/ kept waiting weeks for a pair of shoes
/ or chest or a pair of trousers, be-
/ cause the man engaged TO work for
/ you has to harvest his corn. or build
a hut on his ranch, or plant rice
Did you ever imagine what the con-
/ ditiOns would be if every one were rich?
/ These are the conditions in Guam If
/ you had farm producing corn. sweet
! potatoes. yams. taTO. chickens. pigs.
/ coffee, chocolate, syrup of cOcoanut
! vinegar, cider, sugar, beans, pumpkins.
] etc, would you go to work on the road
! for 30 cents a day. OF hire yourself as
a farmland for So a month Mexican.
and food? The people of Guam viii not
/ do this, they are therefore called by
I some lazy and worthless. / have seen
them on their plantations planting CO.
cOanut trees, which. when once bear
/ ing will give them a sure and steady
/ income, besides cultivating their swe
/ potatoes, tobacco, corn, etc. I am sure
! should do as they do.
Il do not say il is for the good Of
/ the island that such conditions exist.
/ The roads and bridges are bad and no.
body wants to mend them. Formerly
all such work was done Dy convicts
sent here from Spain and the Philip
/ pines We need labOrers and need
them badly. 1t would be an excellent
/ thing to import 200 or 300 Chinese. I
] have seen them work in Hawaii and
know how Industrious and frugal they
I are, and what good husbands they
make when married to the natives.
The descendants Of Chinese on the is
land have proved themselves TO be ex-
cellent citizens. They amalgamate well
| with the natives. The Chinese are
good rice planters, and we have much
land here which could be cultivated il
rice and sugar
Rice ana sugar cannot be grown by
! individuals. Even the cultivation of
coffee on a large scale is an impOssi-
| bility without labOrers. never saw a
country in which coffee grows better,
even down to the very level Of the sea.
Yet nobody makes business of coffee
planting. Each has his little patch,
and none is exported.
Many young men have come here
and gone away discouraged, simply
from the fact that if they do acquire
land they can get nobody To work for
! them, and it is a serious thing for q
man with only his two hands to get a
/ living out Of the earth WOrkmen do
not come here, because they can get
better wages at home. We literally
| have no market-nnt a single store
| where you can 60 and buy a bUsheI OF
/ sweet potatoes or a dozen of oranges
or a fowl or d turkey. You have to
beg people to sell you things. They
don't want money. They get preserved
food, which they really do not need.
and rice from the traders in return
for their dried cOcOanut. We found
that they were anxious to get a supply
of ships tobacco when last years sup
ply Of tobacco gave cut, so several Of
the officers laid in a supply of ships
tobacco and exchanged II for chickens.
eggs, etc. 1t was the only way 20 in
duce the people to bring them"