The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-20

Here is no dust at all, as we are
having fine rains every few days and
the breeze blows most of the time.
It is ladened with moisture from the
ocean, and you don't notice the heat
of the sun.
In my trips in the forests I saw
deer, wild turkeys, pheasants and
the one band of wild hogs, and only
one snake, and there are no house
flies and I saw no misquitos, and
this is the finest climate and the fin
est place to live in I ever saw. I
can prove that my every assertion
about this country is true. All the
rotten stuff that was printed in the
American magazines last winter
about Mexico were the most abom-
Unable lies, and absolutely nothing
can stop the great tide of immigra-
ton to this tropical country.
There were twelve men on the
train 1 came on going to Mexico, and
by next September a great number
of Americans will be getting in to
make homes in this country.
There are lots of people living
here on the isthmus that have per-
feet health that formerly lived in
Mexico City and had to leave the
city because the elevation there is
too high, and 1 will say that a doc
tor has but little business here. 1
have travelled all over the isthmus
and several big cities and I have
seen scarcely a trace of sickness of
any kind. There is no consumption,
no catarrh, nobody has a cough, no
backaches, no rheumatism. I tell
you there is almost no sickness here
an I can prove these conditions be-
yond the shadow of a doubt. I was
out to the Lahunta Plantation, which
Is part of the Sanborn estate. There
1 saw two million rubber trees, 500
acres of coffee and 500 acres of
chocolate just coming into bearing.
The chocolate will yield this esason
$4,000, the coffee is fine and the
rubber is good as any gold mine.
The owner of the Sanborn property
Is a widow. Her husband took sick
in Chicago last year and died, leav-
ing her a developed plantation. She
does not care much about selling
but she says she will put a price on
it in the near future. 1t also has
very fine administration buildings.
but 1 am now organizing company
to buy from 5000 to $4,000 acres
of the lands surrounding Sanborn
on which there are now 2 railroads,
fine large brick hotel with mahog-
any ceiling and inside walls, plenty
of brick and tile to build a large,
fine wholesale and retail store, lots
of outbuildings and native huts. This
townsite is built on artificial raised
hills built by the mound builders
the mselves thousands of years ago.
l am taking one-third interest in
this company and 1 expect enough
10 FrfN do
Cashmere to take the other two
third interest. On these two rail-
roads we will build two Of the fin
est American towns and one of the
largest; American colonies ever built
anywhere. These lands in large
tracts can. be had right now at
$3.50 per acre, SIS per acre cash
and the balance on five years time.
Lands twenty miles back from here
off the railroad of the same tropical
soil are selling in section tracts at
$500, so you see 1 have an extra
ordinary fine proposition, as I am
right on two railroads and the coun-
try for 20 miles around is tributary
to those wo owns. There are two
large land companies that offered to
take the other two-third interest in
these lands, and positively refused
to allow them to have any of it. 1
want the people of my own home
towns in Washington to become
members of my company and we will
colonize and build our towns with
our own people and in two years
from now we will have the finest
country on the Pacific Coast. There
is a company here of men from Port
land looking for a tract Of $4,000
acres to build plantations on. On
these lands we have about 400 acres
of cleared land ready to plant. 1t
is nearly all ploughed now to corn
and grass, and will be ready to plant
to tropical fruits at any time. When
I get this company business settled
expect to start the planting of SO
acres to bananas, pineapples, cocoa
nuts, some Florida sweet oranges,
lines, and grape fruit.
hope to be back by the first of
September, or earlier If possible, as
a larga number of my friends in
Washington want to come to the