The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-12-28
From the New York Tribune.

Wy for publication on the arrival
of General Rolando In Venezeula
contains a list of General Castro's
holdings in Venezuela. many of
which, it is charged were prac-
tically stolen These holdings which
amount to millions of dollars, are
partly in real estate. They will be con-
fiscated by the new government. The list
is here published for the first time:
Nearly the whole of the shares of the
Tachira railway. The strained relations
with Colombia are entirely for the pur-
pose of favoring this enterprise.
contributing interest in the steamers
navigating the Lake of Maracaibo and
the river Zuila. He forced the company
that owned these steamers to sell them
to him for an insignificant sum.
The greater portion of the shares of
steamers navigating the Orinoco. He an
tagonized the two companies that had
that business. and went so far as to
cause the sinking of one of their steam
ers by the war vessel Zumbador, so as to
force them to sell.
A controlling interest in the railway
from Coro to La Vela.
Shares in the enterprise of the Electric
Light of Puerto Cabello.
Shares in the business of the Electric
Light of La Guaira
Shares of the electric light business Of
Valencia.
Most of the shares of the gas and
electric light of Caracas, which was OBJ
tanned by him by making the municipal
council, the contractor, and principal
consumer hold back the payments to the
concern, thereby embarrassing them
and by the aid of judges subservient to
his wishes forced the concern into bank
ruptcy. The property of the company
was sold at auction, and through an
agent of his, who was the only bidder,
he obtained a valuable property for an
Insignificant amount.
Flour mills in Maiquetia and in the An
des, with monopoly of the business.
Bonds of the Puerto Cabello docks.
Cattle farm, La Vandelaria, in Apure.
Cattle farm, Ell Banco, in Aragua.
Cattle ranch of Manara.
Several cattle ranches in Maracay.
Plantations Quibrada and Conception,
and others.
Palace, Villa Ziola, in Caracas, and
some 80 houses more
He also has many other properties In
La Victoria, Valencia, Macuto, Les
Teques, and Maracay.
One-third of the shares of the cigarette
monopoly.
Shares of the Bank of Venezeula.
Large interests in the cattle monopoly.
Large interests In the liquor monopoly.
Controlling interest in the tobacco mo-
nopoly.
Interest in the contract for the sale of
postage and revenue stamps.
Shares of the Carupano dock.
Shares of the Cumana dock.
The whole of the valley of Macuano,
which he acquired by forcing General
Alexandra Ducharme to sell 1t to him.
Shares of the Caracas brewery
More than 100000 deposited in foreign
banks.
Ten millions bolivars in certificates of
the diplomatic debt of 1905.
The telephone business of Bermudez,
Arfsmendi, and Benitez, taken from the
owners by military force.
Large interest in steamer Manzanares,
the only steamer doing a coasting trade
in Venezuela.
The exploitation of the asphalt mine
by Guanaco in partnership with Barber
g. Garner.
The proclamation adds:
He has also appropriated the Maracaibo
dock and other enterprises.
large amount of money that he has
invested in reversionary sales of prop
critics, hypothecated to him.
He is the owner of various mining con-
cessions, acquired by reforming the min
ing laws, annuling many concessions, and
denouncing them again through agents
of his.
He Is part owner of several concessions
in the Delta territory and Guyana.
He established the salt and match mo-
nopoly receiving from the contractors
through his agents, a large number of
shares as bonus, and after selling these
shares he at once cancelled said con-
tracts.
"All these properties" the proclanna-
ton says, have been acquired by him
with money taken from the public treas
ury, which he has also used to corrupt
the homes of the people. and in immodest
ostentation. presenting his victims with
houses and estates and supporting them
in glaring luxury in the face Of starved
people.
when Castro assumed power he