The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-30

that scarcely any one in this country not
directly concerned knows anything about
the vast resources of the southern 18th
mus known as Tehauntepec, and even the
Me8icans themselves farther north know
but little. During the past sixty years,
however, this Eden land has attracted
the attention of American and English
capitalists and they have gone in there
with organized companies and bought up
large tracts for 1he purpose of cultiva-
ton until the government of Mexico final
ly awakened to the startling fact that
outsiders had secured all the best, and
now the government has withdrawn all
their land left from the market within
one hundred miles of the = ehauntepec
railroad 1his road taps the best Of the
country and is being rapidly pushed
through to the Pacific coast at Salina
Cruz where the government is spending
S., 000, 600 on q deep water harbor, and
when completed all ocean going steam
ships whic44 now go around the Horn Will
stop there and their cargoes be unloaded
to be transported across the isthmus via
the railroad, which will run 167 miles
across to the Gulf of Mexico at Coalzoco-
alcos. The government has leased this
road TO the Pearsons, an English COM
pany, for ninety-nine years, and recently
the Carnegie company sent 5000 tons of
steel rails down there 20 equip the road.
Thirty-seven American companies in the
last six years have gone In there and
purchased 100000 acres of land for the
purpose of growing sugar cane coffee.
rubber and tropical fruits. Mr.. Embry
himself owns 1900 acres of fine land. Of
which about 200 acres is now in sugar
cane and 1000 acres more in orange
groves, rubber and cane He says Kan
sas City capitalists have done great
deal for the isthmus and spent a large
amount Of money there, there being at
least three companies who own 90 coo
acres of land. There is world of pine
apples growing luxurisntly, and Mr.. EN-
bry looks for large coming factories to
spring up there, as there is an abundance
of timber for boxes all through there. ~
is estimated that there are 200 different
kinds of timber there, out the costly
woods Ike rosewood and mahogany are
getting very. scarce.
Speaking OF the wonderful possibilities
of the sugar cane crop Mr.. Embry stat
ed as an example that sixty tons Of cane
can be harvested from an acre Of ground
and as high as Sc an acre has been real
lied. A stalk of cane twelve to fifteen
feet long is buried six inches deep
iengthwise IN the soil, and at regular dis
tances are joints which sprout and shoot
up and become Independent plants Often
as high as thirty-hve stalks come from
one joint and as much as one-half q ton
of sugar has been taken from one joint.
A part Of Mr. Embrys purchase compris-
ing Los acres. ne sold 10 the Aztec Plan
tation company, stock in which IS now on
sale In this city and elsewhere, and prom
ises to be a splendid Investment. Five
hundred acres O. this viii be put in cane
and 500 in rubber. 100 acres of each. each
year for FIVE years. nis tract lies along
the Uspanopa river. whicsl is navigabIe
for ocean steamers for fifty miles
Asked as to mis- opinion OF such an IN
vestment. he promptly replied that it was
better man many American securities.
and more profitable. IS agent IN this
city, Col. r. T. Bean- las the books and
stock certificates and IS the local repre-
sentative OF me Aztec company, Of which
Mr.. Embry is vice president The gov
eminent is giving every encoura cement
TO foreign capital. and lots u it is pour
ing in there. One nice thing aoout the
cane crop is that It does not have 70 be
repIauted every year. but OF the contrary
only once in ten 70 fifteen years. on the
average Of once IN each twelve years.
Mr.. c. w Bode IS plantation manager OF
the Aztec company and Mr.. J. II. Nc
C1ymonds. IT. horticulturist.
Nj Embry is very enthusiastic over the
prospects Of the Aztec Plantation com
pany and the whole 81 that isthmus.