The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-04-27
CUBA IS GOOD
FOR FARMERS.
Is a Profitable Field for Amer
lean Crop Ralsars.
LAND VERY RICH AND CHEAP.
Products That Promise 10 Pay Well on the
lsl.ui Question Of Climate
is Important.
LAND VERY RICH AND CHEAP.

Cuban fruits are sold IN the north for
goodly price. They are among the lux
ufies OF the cooler cimes What then.
more attractive 10 the man who Is upeasy
az home than the idea of camping com
ior,sDty upon southern land and minister
ins lrVntaOiy 10 the sweet too,n of CIV
n<auOn. says the New York sun.
NOhung OF vulgar farming about It.
lou nave your orange grove and your
pineapple plat ana SO forth, and you sit
IN the shade smoking cigars while the
Inings ripen and walk on 10 market and
bring you golden gains.
These are the traps 20 catch fools.
Farming is farming In Cuba, as we'll rs
elseN mere. There lis nothing automatic
about a.. You can not rub Aladdin's
lamp and get your wish in the oytr-faith-
ful isle tnan ia Saskatchewan county,
Montana
Fertile, fruitful, fccund. the island is
in great part. but you can he deceived I'm
the name OF fertility as well as IN any
other Kind OF green goods. And deception
IL the great stock IN trade OF many of
the companies that are holding out gilt
tering inducement TO lure American In
vestor sto Cuban purchase
Take the first item IN the line
OF attractions set forth above, name
ing and paying for your land at an
eXOrbitant price, representing probably
ten times the option price or even pur-
chase price OF the company df the OUTFIT
has actually purchased what il sells)-
you set some figures for laying out an or
ange grove of twenty acres
Including the cost of the land you are
told YOU can clear, plOw, purchase young
trees from Florida, plant and look after
twehty-acre orange grove for $500.
4 have consulted several men who are
Nerscd in such matters and have actually
planted orange groves in Cuba and they
assure me IL cannot be done properly for
less than $50 an acre, excluding cost of
land; so, at the start, here IL call for
four times the outlay proposed That IL
where the shoe pinches most
CUBAN TITLES ARE UNCERTAIN.
Let us, however, 60 a little beyond that.
The hrst difficulty about Cuban lands is
title Is the title secure? DO these peo-
pie own what they offer for sale? Span
ish practices I'm Cuba made land transfers
slow. cumbrous, and costly.
So great was the dread of official leeches
and legal delays that estate after estate
through the island was passed on. held
and divided among families end sold to
strangers without registry. Hence today,
numberless titles are clouded, and whore
thar is tile ease. or only provisional title
exists, the intending inyester ought TO
know il and govern himself accordingly.
lie may ind himself ousted at any hour
in the day. once "A man has passed over
his purchase money 10 another the harm
Is dole.
Next. supposing the title Is rock found
ed and copper fastened. IL the price asked
anything like the ruling price I'm the To-
cality? In all the land scheme now OPP
Grating by delusive advertisement and
burco circulars the price is always from
fifty To thousand per cent above the
price for which contiguous lands can be
obtained by purchase
Rut efier YOU are satisfied that the title
g. sound and the price only 200 or 300 per
cent above the present value OF the land,
you should know whether the land is real
ly good orange land. pineapple land, and
so on.
Can they point out TO YOU twerity-acre
groves or one-acre patches bearing or
ange trees IN the vicinity OF your pur-
chase? In 1899 the entire acreage OF or
angcs i'm the island was only 1900 acres!
That Is not 70 say IL might not DE null
tiplied by 100 but e. softly. brother. You
arc. YOU see practically q pioneer IN or
apRp cultivation IN cuba.
There were at the same time only 260o
acres under pineapples. ! am not aware
that there are many parts ~ The island
where pineapples will not grow. but he
sure that as with oranges, there are
places better than others for growing
them, and hat there are are niceties OF
planting and culture. as well as mere sit
uations which cannot he imported In "A
circular and OF which undoubtedly the
circular writer's are ignorant.
To put down 10 cents q piece as the
cost t,f setting out orange trees il 10 give
p very felse Idea of the work needed at
the current rate of wares.
EXoRBlTANT FREIGHT RATES.
Next ara II might have heen PUT rfrs,.
what is the rate and wnat is the method
OF transportation 20 market? All
chances of profit naturally depends upon
that
II has been the custom In Cuba where
railroad transportation is necessary, to
milk the producer as nearly dry Is
compatible without putting him out of
business altogether. The railroad mag
natcs calculate your prohts and proceed
80 impose rates which will Just let you
through alive
There have been no improvements I'm this
rcspect since the American occupation.
There is no such thing as general mileage
rate. The rate punishment Is made to
III the crime Of the production as closely
a. The existence OF the producer will adj
nit.
THAT 90 will he any better under Cuba
I.ibre is open TO grave doubt. The pos
outwelghcd by the talent for syndcations
which modern commerce develops I'm Gu
ha as well as In the United States.
ONLY radical legislation can control 70.
and The chances OF that are not very
great with parliamc of needy adven-
turers on one side and unScrupulous as
wei rs rich corpora tions on the other.
rhis cNorbltancy Is not confined To the
railroads Take the Mencudez line of
steamers on the south side OF the island.
THE managers were ALWAYS able 20 main
tlm their monopoly in Spanish times by
kcering lobby at Madrid
50 prcsout they are proteccd by the un-
aettlcd conditions and the slow return 10
irnsperity OF tho island They charge
practically what they please Tor passen-
scr as vel as freight service.
Fro~, Batahano 20 ManEanlllo, which
A REMEDY FOR THE GRIPPE.