, 1902-02-06
WARE VS.. STANTON
LARAMIEITE COMES BACK AT RE
PUsLiCAN'S CUBAN CoRRE.
SPoNOENT.
Says That the Only Poor Lands Are
On a Strip Along the Coast, and
None Of the Wyoming People Live
Thereon-has Sister Livina There
Who Prefers Island To Nebraska
Wonderful Country for Fruit.
Laramie, Wyo.. Feb. ., 1902

Laramie, Wyo.. Feb. ., 1902.
To the Editor of The Republican.
Having read an article from the pen
OF Mr.. T. Stanton from Cuba. | would
like to say in justice to some who have
invested at La Gloria. that | have been
last nine months. have letters from
persons living there M have seer
the country, and the only poor lands
are on a strip along the coast. and none
of the Wyoming people own lands in
that district: but back five to seven
miles from the sea. with an elevation
100 to 200 feet above sea level.
| will quote from a letter from my
sister, written Nov. IS. in which she
says she has radishes, string beans. to-
matoes. muskmelons. oranges. lines.
sweet and sou lemons. bananas. pine
apples and guavas, from which she
makes jelly and jams that II cannot
tell from cranberry after it is cooked.
She picked coffee from her own trees,
hulled it, Drowned it II had coffee of
her own raising. Her husband visited
four places in a half day where they
had oranges, lemons, bananas. %pineap-
pies. coffee and ]cocOanuts by the thou
sands. At one place a man had 500
cocoanut trees and each tree bears
from 800 to 400 nuts a year, II his in
come from that alone was Over $1,000
a year. Cocoanuts are eaten when half
ripe and with a spoon. and each one
holds over a pint of milk, and are very
healthy for invalids.
My sister lived in Omaha twenty
years and say after she gets an Amer
lean house she will enjoy life. as she
don't feel the heat as much as in Ne
braska and can 60 out in rain II mud
and never feel the rheumatism. She
was laid up with it half the time in
Omaha.
Mr.. Stanton, being over 400 miles
from La Gloria, knows as little about
it as II he was not in Cuba at all, and
all reports that ever come from Havana
were gotten up with a view to keep
people from the eastern part Of the isl
and. which anyone will tell you always
was the healthiest part Of the country.
All the country needs is development,
for 1t is as wild and ~undeveloped as
Wyoming, and transportation facilities
are very poor. The poverty flats" Of
La Gloria are only such from poor pio'
neers who have gone there to better
their condition. for the soil is as fer,
tile al Florida. where a Danish friend
Of mine read to me Of a Dane who sold
2 900 boxes of %pineapples at $3.50 per
box from four acres of ground. equal
ing $500 a year, and the same can be
done in Cuba, where frosts are IN
known, and it is the home of the pine
apple and banana.
Mr.. Stanton seems to like Cuba and
says 1t beats stock raising in Wyoming
ia winter, and should he visit La Gloria
and the ranch I bought in Cuba. he
would no doubt form Il different opin-
lon OF the country.
Mr.. Brown. who just returned from
there, says it is the finest country he
ever saw for fruit and stock raising,
for the green grass is there the year
round.
My advice to all is to hold or to all
you have and get as much more, for you
will see values increase more in Cuba
In ten years than they did in Illinois in
forty. S. N. WARE.