The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-22

sOnal examination of several weeks
 on this property, I have examined
 carefully into the possibilities of
 several different crops that can be
 raised on the land
 Location.
 The land is situated about l4
 miles northeast of the port of San
 Bias, on the north bank of Santiago river. about four and onehalf miles from the ocean.
 l Area.
 l The plantation contains some 1S,.
 I92 acres, according to Mexican sur. vey.
 The land is level, and practically all tillable.
 The soil is very fine volcanic | silt. very deep-a true delta land, being absolutely free from sand and gravel
 1 Transportation. | The Southern Pacific railway is | now completed to the crossing of the Santiago river and without doubt 1 will be completed to it's connection at San Marcus, in 1912, thus giving l railway transportation to all rail 1 road points. The river. which faces 1 the full length of the plantation, is | from one hundred to three hundred 1 yards wide up to the crossing of 1 the railway. and at no point on the 1 river channel will extreme low wa ter fall below feet The river 1 current is very slow, the ocean tide 1 reaching within one and one-half l miles of the plantation. 1 Moisture. The rainy season extends some | three months of the summer from about the middle or latter part of l June 10 the middle or last of Sep | tember. The rain is trife over | one hundred inches during this period. For over eight months | there is practically no rain fall at I all However, very heavy dews | take the place of rain, and are I very regular. The moisture is | drawn up at night and drops from l the foliage very late in the morn l ing.
 The water under the surface ap- parently rises and falls with the water in the level of the river bed, and the soil is always moist very i'HS tp 'ht Sui ld't. | lsbor. You have a large number of work | men on the plantation at 31Ac per industrious and seem to give good satisfaction.
 Improvements. There has been some seven hun dred acres of new clearing; five | l.,,,, .,l,.x,J | I ty thousand cocoanuts were plant ed during the year 1910. the banan- as will commence bearing in July, 1o11
 There have been some good per manFnt buildings erected. One large building, 900 feet square. with cold storage, ice plant, electric light plant, electric light plant, connecting with blacksmith shop, harness shop, wood working plant, and such other necessary plants for handling, sharp ening and making tools. A new store building has been erected, carrying a general stock of merchan- disc of about s10000 gold. Ware houses, for the storage of grain, have also been completed.
 This gives you about 5,700 acres of land now in cultivation. There is also some 1900 head of stock. consisting of mules, horses, oxen and other cattle; also wagons and harness and other tools neces- sary for handling the plantation. Crops.
 All the ordinary farm crops, such as tobacco, corn, beans melons and ! other rotation crops, can be grown continuously and will produce at least two full crops per annum. Cotton, bananas, sugar cane, coco anuts, oranges, lemons, etc, may be grown, giving very large yields. Tobacco. This plantation is well known throughout Mexico as a great pro- ducer of fine tobacco, and will pro- duce two crops annually. Of common grades of tobacco, a perfectly safe estimate would be 800 pounds per crop, or 1000 pounds per annum Of the poorest grade of tobacco, used in making cigar cites, sells at 15c per pound, or $50 per acre per annum. This class of tobacco requires very little work, merely drying in the sun and bal ing.
 Fine tobacco, and tobacco for wrappers command much high CT price, and the raising of fancy tobacco would increase the revenue several times over.
 The product will vary from three hundred to as high as two thousand pounds per crop, depending on the class of tobacco planted.
 Corn.
 Two crops of corn are raised an- nually. each crop yielding 50 to 90 bushels to the acre. The value of corn varies from $1 to $4 per 133 pounds. Taking the minimum value of soc per bushel, and the minimum yield at 50 bushels per crop. gives a return of $50 per acre not count ing fodder.
 Mexico never raises as much corn as she needs.
 Barley.
 Large quantities of barley malt are used in the City of Mexico from barley raised in the state of Washington, shipped to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, made into malt, then shipped to the City of Mexico. This land should produce two crops of barley-a yield of 80 bushels per crop. or 16O bushels per annum;