The Alaska citizen., 1911-02-22

quality and quantity the product raised in the southern soils of the United States.
 Cotton will produce annually one and one-half bales or 750 pounds and fifteen hundred pounds of cot lon seed per acre. One ton of cotton seed makes 90 gallons of oil worth 5uc per gallon and 700 pounds of oil cake worth 1c per pound. With a price of l2C per pound for cotton. gives a product of Sl25 per acre.
 Irrigated cotton lands are worth a thousand dollars per acre in the United States, where frost kill the plants every year. What is it worth where the plants will produce several years on land that needs no irri- gation?
 Sugar Cane.
 For this product, there is no bet ter land in the world (true delta land).
 | have investigated carefully the possibilities of this industry, and have obtained estimates on the cost of a complete plant of 5000 acres Cf cane This land will pro- duCe annually from 40 to 50 tons If cane producing about 15 per cent of sugar. This cane will re quirc replanting of only 10 to 12 years. The product of 6,O00 acres, at the minimum yield of 40 tons would be 240,000 tens of cane, or 3G.Oo0 tons of sugar. plant of l.5O0 tons daily capacity would be required. costing complete on the property in running order $S50,O00 for the buildings and machinery alone. This is the improved pro- cess. making clean. refined sugar by direct process.
 The total cost of making sugar in Cuba with such plant is 1Ac per pound. Wages for common laborer in Cuba are figured at $50 gold per day. and interest charges are carried out on s1,750,000 total cost of land. cattle, tools, railroad etc.
 With your property. s750,000 in ad- dition to cost of plant and ma chinery should cover the total cost including all railroads and equip ment. Common labor should be no small item saved, as you only pay . hI 'I ' oS dStlIiiSN Tl pp Ill Nhbtl llO ever. you are safe in figuring the cost at 14c per pound, on the basis of 36.o00 tons. If the yield were 5o or 6D tons per acre, the cost would be cut down materially. The cost of freight by water can not exceed $10 per ton, to any port in he world; in fact, charters can be had from $3.5O to g.. In addi ton, you reach all points in Mexico by rail. where sugar sells high. The average Liverpool market would show as follows:
 Product, 36,000 tons at $76 per ton, $2100,0O0
 Les, cost Of production -4c per pound, and i2c per pound freight, S12G0.O00.
 Net profit. $1,440,o00.
 Or practically as much as the total cost of each 6.O0O acre unit.
 It is likely one-third of a product would be sold in Mexico. which brings as high a price as prevails in the United States.
 The House of Gerre. who own small plant up the Santiago river, i0 miles above your plantation, have thousand acres in sugar cane, which they are compelled to irrigate Git being higher land). They offer it for sale. and guarantee to show profit of 10 per cent net on $2.000,000, making a poor grade of sugar and they are compelled to pack their entire output to market on mules at that.
 In planting sugar cane, it would 'ake three years to get the com plete plant and 6,000 acre unit under full swing. One thousand acres could be planted the first year; at the end of the second year enough seed could be cut on the 1000 acres 10 plant 1000 acres more, giving a full G,o00 acre crop at the end of three years, which would be about as soon as a plant could be assem- bled and completed.
 In addition to the sugar output. bi-products, which add materially nishes the fuel.
 RecapituIaton.
 By the purchase of some cheap grazing lands to keep animals on while not working, nearly all of the plantation could be utilized in high class products. Think you could safely place 12,0O0 acres to perma- nent crops as follows:
 5000 acres to bananas, pro
 duct annually ...... s45OOOO 5000 acres to cOcOanuts,
 product annually ...... 9OOOOO coco acres to sugar cane.
 product annually ....... 100000
 $2,S5O,OOO
 This leaves One-third of the land Yet tO be accounted for You would