Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-28

and the expenses OF keeping stock are
low"
what other kinds Of stock have
your / asked
'We have horses. hogs goats mules,
sheep and donkoys, We have altogether
four or Ave million dollars worth Ct
stock, and as a whole more than one
million acres In pasture / think there
Is money to be made IN stock raising"
How about your markets2
I'VE have all the West indies and all
the countries Of South and Central
America along the Caribbean sea. Live
stock and dried beef are in demnnd IN
that part OF the world and we can cell
all We can raise"
Would you advise young Americans
10 go TO Porto Rico 10 make their for
tunes2' | asked.
Not II they are poor" replied Mr..
| Degetau. we have plenty OF good
| workmen and many small capitalists.
If the young American has some money
! ana at the same time any special know
| ledge or ability. he can do well In Porto
| Rico The more money he has the bet.
| ter he can operate.
There is good opening for banking.
| railroad building and business Of VAR
| ious kinda, Department stores would
! pay In san Juan and Ponce. AS to
| banks, the interest rates range from 70
| per cent upwards although the legal
rate u.s., 1 think 6 per cent Loans can
| DC made on good security. There are
only opportunities to buy lands for
! those who can command ready cash."
INVESTMENTS IN RAILWAYS.
] asked Mr.. Degetau to tell me some
tnng about the railway possibilities Of
the Island. lie replied,
| 4 ttfa IA. +,
! with railways, Some little additions
have been made 10 the line known as
! the French concession, running from
san Juan with some breaks around the
| west coast This win some day be com .
| plcted, and we shall probably have a
| railroal encircling the island. A move
ment is now under way to build troll
ley line across Porto Rico following
TO sope extent the line OF the military
road connecting san Juan and Ponce
This road should be immensely profit
able 1t would get It's power from the
streams, and could be operated at small
cost
"Thore Is no more healthful country
In the world that the interior Of Porte
RICO, and | know Of no country sc
| beautiful" Mr. Decctau continued "a
short distance back from the coast
/ there are hills which rise into noun.
tains. There mountains are green al
the year around. It Is never very hot
The trade wings from the North Allan.
tic wash them daily with ozone and In
time they Will be the great winter re.
sort Of the United States, understand
that hotel IL to be built at San Juan
and another at some mineral springs
near Ponce high up I'm the mountains
These hotels should be full during the
winter and II may be that Porto Rico
will have a similar winter population 70
what Florida has now"
How about your towns? Are they
gr0wing?"
Not rapidly" replied Mr., Degetau
THE largest are San Juan and Ponce
neither Of which has $4,000 people. The
next city In size Ia Mayaguez on the
west coast, with a population Of from
1900 TO 10000. We have altogether
about 100000 people, but they live
largely on the farms and in compare
lively small villages"
How are your people satisfied with
American rule? Are they glad OF the
| changer"
! They are glad to be Americans" re-