Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-25


Gentlemen:
Your Committee sent to inspect the
Montezuma plantation at Tamplco.
Mexico, and to Investigate the condl-
tions relative to the growth sud pro
duction OF oranges and bananas. res
pectfully submit the following.
We left salt Lake city, January 18th
at 3 80 p, m and arrived January 2lst
at $50 p. M, at
TAMPICO, THE GATEWAY TO THE
REPUBLIC
Tampico a few miles from our plan
tatlon, with population of 10000, has
become the principal port OF the Re-
public The Custom House. Fiscal
Wharf and Jettics which have been
constructed by the Government AT a
cost Of $4,000 10000, are equal to any
thing elsewhere In the world More
man thirty steamship lines touch
monthly at this port giving us urllu-
tied facilities for shipping our pro-
ducts to The markets Of the world.
OUR PROPERTY.
The Moutezuma plantation is locat-
Cd ON the TameSi river, which is nav
gable for 15O miles inland and Is the
only fresh water stream in the sur
rounding country We spent two
weeks on our land. at Tampico and I'm
the immediate vicinity. making n care
ful study OF the climate. soil rainfall
and temperature, kinds OF fruit most
profitable and the best methods of
cultivating, harvesting and shipping
the products We have about 400
acres of land, wonderfully fertile and
especially adapted TO the growing OF
oranges, bananas and all citrous fruits;
also pineanules, strawberries, cane.
tobacco corn, beans rice and all kinds
Of vegetables grown IN northern and
southern climates,
IRRIGATION
The land is spendidly situated for
irrigation The fall back from the
river averages Ga feet 70 the mile, and
the lift OF the water to the highest
point on the land Is about IL feet
making it practicable to locate a
pumping plant and raise water at
small expense, as there Is sufficient
wood on the place for fuel, 10 run a
pumping plant for many years.
RAINFALL AND TEMPERATURES.
Rainfall in Tampico and vicinity av.
erages ~ inches; the temperature av-
erages about "a degrees the year
around
SHIPPING FACILITIES.
Our location on the Tamesi river is
Ideal for shipping. The present meth
cd of transportation down the river
10 Tampico where all ocean steamers
are now loaded, is by steam launches
and river steamboats,, at cost OF
Hbout $500 per car. In course of time
the ocean steamers can come alongside
ntH Vtsh IA ~ haN
can be loaded with but trih
ing cost, for shipment to Eur
ope and the United States. In ad-
dition to this advantage of water
transportation, we are but few miles
from the Monterey branch OF the Mex
lean Central Railroad, the nearest
shipping point TO the United States
where our products can be loaded at
small cost for shipment to interior
cities as we'll as to the United States,
CLIMATE AND HEALTH.
The climate in our localitv is per
fectly adapted 10 the cultivation Of all
tropical products. The fertility OF the
soil is unlimited rainfall is abundant.
cheap labor plentiful. and there is no
tropical region In the world so free
from the malarial complaints peculiar
10 southern and well watered countries
DEMAND AND SUPPLY.
The increased consumption and CON
sequent demand ~ the Uni ed States
for the banana as a fruit and the many
useful and necessary products into
which it Is now manufactured. place
II among the staple articles or com
merCe. In Great Britain the banana
is hardly known to most OF the forty
millions OF people there, and IN Con-
tlnental Europe a Ike condition pre-
walls. as evidenced by the fact that a
market IS now being created In Ger
many, These facts are evidence
enough that the production Of banan.
rs cannot be easily oyerdone, when,
too. We consider that only a small area
" the earths surface Is suited TO the
banana, and OF that area only frac-
ion Is 20 located that banana growing
AN be made largely profitable, for ne
'ossariy large parts Of the belt are
nigh dry or sterile others are sandy
,r rocky deserts, and an immense part
s covered by oceans.
TRANSPORTATION.
Freight rates from Tampico to Den !
'er, Kansas City, Chicago, New York !
md ormediate points, are S1,l5 and +.
l.2J IN car loads. Water transpor-