The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-04-29
UBERO PLANTATION COMPAyY,s
DOINGS.
fore Noon Wednesday, thu En-
tire 1000 Shares Sold.

Yes, we closed our stock books wednes-
day." said Hon. w. D.. Owen, president of
the Ubero Plantation Company. when seen
by the Journal man last evening. land the
success that we have met with has been
very gratifying. Notwithstanding the prox-
unity of the Mexican republic, the average
American at present knows less of its
twelve million people. their needs. their
or of the enormous resources of
the country they inhabit than do the more
distant German, Spanish or English trad
ers who have thus far successfully monop-
olized so large n part of their trade and
possibilities.
I'm fact. the average American is more
familiar with any part of Europe, has a
better knowledge of China and Japan, and
actually knows more about the Transvaal
in South Africa than he does of the great
republic that forms a part of the south
ern boundary of his own country, and
which. from his defective knowledge, he
continues to view as more remote than the
distant countries named. Nevertheless. the
most distant state capital in all Mexico is
nearer the continental market of Chicago
than either the cities of Los Angeles, San
Francisco. Portland or Seattle, and is cor
respondingly as much nearer the great
cities of the Atlantic seaboard. This fact
Is seemingly unknown to one in a thou
sand of the disconnected Americans now
settling in Nebraska and the Dakotas.
Hundreds of thousands Of these enterpris-
ing people are anxiously looking for some
more inviting locality than the wind-swent.
half-arid plains they now occupy: but moth
ing offers better imam the Sem1-deSert lands
that stretch from Kansas to the Pacific
ocean. and which. TO redeem, cost more per
acre than would proportionately an i'm
proved farm of more desirable land in the
States east OF the Mississippi"
why do not mere Americans emigrate
to Mexico?''
ut is the unanimous opinion of all trav-
elers visiting Mexico replied Mr.. Owen,
that when the American public come to a
true knowledge of the immense resources
Of it's nearest neighbor and learn of the
enormous possibilities of it's soil and the
invitation of its delightful climate there
will then set in such a flood of emigration
as has never before been known in the
American continent, n IL is needless TO
say those first to avail themselves of these
greatest results. All that is lacking to
turn this waiting tide southwark is knowl-
edge of the country, its laws, it's products,
climate and possibilities"
Haven't you found the average Indi-
anian rather skeptical as to the possfbili-
ties of tropical AGRICULTURE" asked the re-
porter.
Yes, sir. The traveller who returns from
a trip TO tropical Mexico and tells the ex-
act truth regarding the wonderful richness
of its agricultural resources is looked upon
as a fit subject for an asylum. and the man
who seriously undertakes to convince those
who have never visited a tropical country
that it is not for the planters
there to make a steady net annual profit of
from $50 TO even 500 an acre will have a
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perience He is regarded in much the same
light as the missionary who, in describing
TO a band of South Sea islanders the ice
and snow of northern winters, told them
the tops of the rivers became solid, and the
rain looked like small white feathers. The
natives, never having witnessed such a
condition of things, refused not only to
believe the good man. but ~straightway
made a stew of him.. The unbelief OF the
average Indiana man Is about on a par
with that displayed by the South Sea
islander, when you tell him the conditions
that exist on the isthmus.
However, the fact remains that the i'm
mense profits arising from the production
of coffee. rubber. vanilla and pineapples
can scarcely be overestimated. and the OPP
portunity 10 make money is greater to-day
In this land than almost any other In the
world.
Perhaps the most inviting field for in
vestment is on the fsthmus. where our
plantation Is located; IL at least possesses
all the advantages of any other section OF
the country. with many important elements
not 10 be found elsewhere"