Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-09

S21 to 800 per 100 feet and the cedar
from $50 TO $50 per 100 feet, according
TO the grade and locality where sold.
Jucaro wood is worth Z cents a foot,
white glanadllo. yamaguey and Gorilla
bring IN from S2j to $50 ton.
TIMBER IN EASTERN CUBA,
A large industry Ia getting out. Gu
ban timber has grown up since the war.
Scattered along the line Of the cuba
road from Santa Clara 10 Santiago are
scores OF saw mills with great piles
OF mahogany and hardwood logs about
them; and RATS Of logs may be seen
floating in nearly every harbor. In
1903 cuba exported about S3,500,000
worth Of forest products. and such eX-
ports are steadily increasing. Some
Canadians have bought large tract
of timber not far from Camaguey,
which they expect TO exploit. and
Michigan parties have Just purchased
$4,000 acres Of timber along the line
Of the Cuba road not far from the bor-
ders Of Puerto Principe The latter
company will cut out the most valu-
able trees and ship them to the mar
kcts and then use the land for grazing
and sugar plantations, II expects TO
establish town upon its lands, and
win divide a part Of 1t into 40 or so
acre tracts for sale to Americans. |
understand that the price paid for the
land was In the ueighborhood OF 50
per acre. or about $4,000.
cuba has large areas OF forests
Nearly the whole Of the eastern part Is
covered with woods Nearly an the
way from Camaguey to Santiago Is
through virgin forest, This Is 40 on
the branch line Of the cuba road from
Alto Cedro TO Nipc bay. and under
stand that tho forests extend back for
many miles ON both sides Of that road
These cuban forests are rank and
thick; the trees are large and bound
together with Vines. Nearly every one
carries machete i travelling through
tine Woodg, In order TO cut his way from
one Mace 10 another The trees in
Clude mahogany. cedar ebony. walnut.
majlgla, Coiba oak pines rosewood
logW0Od cottonwood lignu Vitae and
about 30 varieties of palms. There are
also U large number of dyevoods and
many medicinal bushes and plants
Much Of the wood ia good Tor furri-
ture. and a Grand Rapids company
has bought 5000 ogres and is about
establishing % factory I'm the northern
pant of the island, 90 make furniture
Tor the cuban market. A. present
nearly everything Of this Kind ia Inn
ported and all homemade furniture ia
! hiCh priced
| AMERICAN COLONIES ~ CUBA,
The fact that most Of the lands are
| for sale only I'm large tracts has led
to the Organization of American col
oulo7 Private parties and syndiCates
/ are buying mp estates Of from 10000 TO
100000 acres and dividing them up into
! &c. 81 ana 5U-lrrc tracts, which are
| sold 100 prices ranging from $50 and M
! ward per- aero. There are ut present
perhaps dozen or so such colonies in
| active operation but so far they have
| not been u existence long enough 10
.ay th7t they win be lasting successes.
These roloniznE companies present
/ their lands to customers chiefly aa
| troui-d 'ruLf growing propositions,
| 'rhov seud out glowing prospo. fuses,
stating that such tracts can be made
10 produce $500 or $500 and upward am
acre per year They say 3D. farm on
go acres In cuba a. worth more than lo0
! or 200 acres I'm the United states, and
! n the land IL rightly chosen as % loca-
| ton and quality ! doubt not that they
nre correct. Tho soil here is rich and
the products arc enormous,
FORTUNES IN FRUIT
have before mo q number NJ such
| prospeotuges They soy that land
| planted On cacao, the tree that Yields
| the chocolate beam should Yield at
! least $500 am acre per year Tho cacHu
! trees come into bearing in four or five
years. aud when full grown should av-
! eraE eight or ten pounds per troe. Two
hundred and fifty trees can be- grown
! on an acre and the cacao beans will
| sell, so It ig stated, 90 10 cents pound.
As 10 pineapple these prospectuses
| say 5000 can be grown ON one acre and
| they viii sell from 8 To 10 cents apiece,
| which seem 60 mo high prices
The stories OF orange growing are
| even more glowing, a l0-Hcre grove ac-
| cordins to these eEtimates, will make a
| man Independent and 30 acres win net
! him D fortune In one advertisement
| sec that 10 acres ~ oranges should
! yield within i've years after planting