Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-01-20
CHANGES MADE
IN NICARAGUA
Great Industrial Progress
Noted Since Estrada Re-
/ gime Came In Power.
y
: AEROPLANE MAILS
But Few Hours Will Be Re-
quired to Deliver
= Letters. -
AEROPLANE MAILS

bMenelds. Nicaragua = The ar
rangements are now being made it /,
said, for importation OF a cargo q
aeroplanes. They are to be used Il
carrying mail between Managua
other. cities on the west coast and
interior towns and ports along tbs
East coast.
At present transportation of mai,
Is as slow as the natives can make
1t. Bluefields and Port Zelaya are
apout 70 miles apart, both being ON
the east coast, yet it frequently takes
toree weeks or month FOR mail to
reacn one point from the other.
residents in Bluefields desiring tc
SEND mail to Cape GEacias, 120 miles
to the north. find the best plan Il
70 send it by steamer to New OR.
leans, thence back on the same
steamer to the cape. In this manner
q letter will reach ito destination in
about two weeks.
Mail sent from the City Of Mexico.
the middle of October 1909 for Blue.
fields reached there less than ten
Gays ago. Mail from Bluefields TO,
Manague is frequently sent to New
orleans, thence to San Francisco and
down the cosat on a Pacific mail
steamer.
Inis can be accomplished in q
month, and is much less time than is
required to get mail to the inter-
lor. But the elimination of the rail-
way and the installation Of the air.
snip will insure rapid delivery Of
mail. ~
Nlcaraguans have been too busv
Llenting among themselves for per
'onal gain to plan Industrial de.
1eiopment. Lying along the river of |
ne east coast are still millions of I'M
ieveloped acres that could be made
o yield fortunes. Buried but a few
Get beneath the surface at the head
waters OF these streams are untold
OF gold, silver and other
metals.
more nuggets of pure gold have
zen picked up along the mountain
treams OF Nicaragua than in anv
rorld.
IN no other climate does fruit or
nges' grape fruit. pipeapples, BAN
nas reach such a stage of perfec.
on. Know these facts. the ma. ,
YES. Indians and Sspaniards. a mix :
! breed of 81 varieties havc gone ;
ong ek1ng out an existence with : !
osslD!e exception here and there
rart mas been their watch-wor1 !;
leir IDOL, their one aim in life .
'ork Is a new word for them. !.
Inere is plenty Of liquor in Blue .
elos and all other settlements in =
g republic Whtskey may be pur- !,
lased in practically every store. -
morality is the curse of the nation :
"a before Nicaragua can ever az =
me a sitting posture among M. :,
rsed. 0 TO II
me United Statas government :,
y lend assistance, and by the uae ;. :.
the iron hand, keep down revolu- :,
ms but before it becomes roo, =. -
ZION, the white man who comes. in =.
% It's gates must be clean and =
oiesome. Therein rests the blame =
the immortality Of the natives. - -
from the incoming tide Of immi- q.
ltion those foreigners who have =
cKed here since hostility ceased. ~ ~
the United States government g.
ognlzed Estrada as president -
Oh Is expected. m
'or the major part they are man w
0 have invested and are Investing .
ney in agricultural or mineral 70
u.s. Just at present q revival in -
banana industry is taking place. to-
from the middle west and north ~
investing heavily in banasas. rice ~ ~
fibre lands. -e an
long the Rio Grande river iun- as as
are being cleared and planted ~.
bananas. A customs house IL Ta a
70 built there for handling Of 10
1ucts and large boat is now NV -,
back and forth on the river ine
IL barges are on their way to the a.,
r to be used in the banana trade. ~.
luelaeids, has within its grasp the -.
rewlthal to advance to one Of tha S
sure lands of the world. Whether W..
oes SO or not remains to he seen .'
willing to Take the Risk.