The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-07-14

has been to CUBA, the WhteI Nai-
dens of the United States" he calls
It and writes so enthusiastically
about the island and Its possibilities,
that fear he has been the guest
there of some big land corporation or
steamship line: indeed the appear
ance OF his optimistic article In the
Cuban Review and Bulletin makes
the surmise almost certain.
Florida Is, of course, destined to
take back seat In the early here-
after" its citrus groves and pinerieS
sink into scale Of production 80 low
az will be scarce worth mentioning,
beside 5000 acre enterprises now be-
ing carried on in the isle OF beauty,
fertility and yellow fever; only this
last feature In connection with sum-
mer quarantine regulations Is not
touched upon.
Mr.. Carpenter, "having visited
most of the islands OF the world,
knows none which has such wonder
full resources and such bright pros
pects," revolutionary movements IN
cluded. we presume. He says:
Cuba Is to be the winter garden
Of the United States. It Is destined
to supply the most of our tropical
fruits and the greater part OF our
vegetables consumed from December
until May. The island Is 30 situated
that It's products can be taken to New
York, Chicago and others OF our
great cities, both East and West, IN
competition with those OF Florida
and California; and Its soil Is so pro-
ductiye that IL intensely farmed IL
would almost feed our nation.
"Have you ever considered the To-
cation Of Cuba? IL Is only q step
across the way from Florida. you
can reach It in comfortable steamers
within a few hours from there, from
Mobile or New Orleans, and 1t Is
only two or three days from New
York. II lies, In fact, IN uncle
Sans front yard with a short ana
cheap water route to his Kitchen
door"
II has about 1900 inhabitants.
but can easily support fifteen million,
and the land can be cultivated to the
tons of the hills and. we suppose,
down on the other side to the edges
of the water that surrounds It. IT
can supply sugar for the world ana
also tobacco. So the sugar cane
growers of the sunny south land ana
the sugar beet raisers OF the wes-
tern and Rocky Mountain region may
as we'll begin to turn their attention
To other crops or, perhaps, seek to Sc
cnre foothold in Cuba before all
the lands advertised In tne Bulletin
NV the various realty companies ana
fruit syndIcates are dlsposed OF.
After sundry Introductory para
graphs of general descriptive char
acter we come to "the milk in the
cocoanut" IN an account OF a planta-
tion owned nv n combination OF
American and Cuban capitalists. on
which. however. only Cuban 1aborers
are emploved. to the number OF fif-
teen hundred.
"Four wears ago." he says, "the
land which comprised Il was q fun
GLE. Today It contains million
banana trees, three hundred thor
sand orange trees. one hundred and
sixty thousand coffee trees, eightv
thousand cacaoI trees--all thriftily
GROWING. In addition to this u has
one million pineapples set ont IN rows
which are WELDING nanv crates NJ
mines for the markets OF New York
and also vast extent OF fine sugar
plantations.
"The cultivated land IN that tract
In IN the neighborhood OF Ave thou
sand acres. I rode thirty-hve miles
over n on horseback, taking twn
days for nv several excursions. and
IN al my rides I did not see a dozen
weeds nor a score blades NJ grass
The ground between the plants and
trees "a as clean rs foor and the
growth is beyond belief"
Five thousand acres and not TWEEN