The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-03

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car,agena as New York is to 81
Io,is and from that Colombian port
toNew Orleans is only tour Gays easy
steaming. From ~Barrenquina TO ne"
work is less than 1900 miles n tne
trim can be easily made in nVe DAYS
Nv way of the canal Boston can ieo
the west coast of Colombia Dy steaui
ing a little over 1000 miles, n the
whole of this coast is nearer our a.
lantic seaboard than any part VI
cifc North America
And then look at the size OF the
country Colombia has a coast line
| Of about 700 miles on each ocean.
| From south to north 1t Is longer than
from New Orleans to ST PAU, anu
| from east to west in places L II
wider than from Baltimore TO en-
cago. 1t is larger than ali the Al,
lantic coast States. with ONO anu
West Virginia added. II IS nine
lines the size Of New York and ten
times as big as Kentucky. II Is DIG,
ger than Germany, France, Holland
and Belgium combined, and
standing it is almost on the equator,
the most of the land is so high above
the sea tina white men can 1--we IN II
and the soil will produce crops that
have a steady market IN Europe anu
in North America.
Columbia has pasture lands which
NAV make it one of our future sources
of meat. One-half Of the whole re-
public consists of plains that slope
down to the Amazon and Orinoco riv-
} ers, these are now raising some
thing like 1000. 900 cattle. The eau
ca Valley alone could supply enough
90 ~1rf Tho r1orEofC nf tho
! world, and there are extensive re-
gions along the Caribbean fitted for
: coffee On the loWlands Of this coast
, the United Fruit Company now has
. vast plantations of bananas, the pro-
: duct of which it is shipping to Eng
z land and the United States. The ex-
ports run into the millions Of punches
e a year, and they are carried away to
u New York in of 5000 tons
each having accommodations for 10f
7rst-class passengers. They have
. steamers to Europe which make thu
run in about fourteen days.
l understand that there are val
liable deposits of petroleum on tn
y northern coast Of Colombia. In com
e ing to Panama | Travelled with a Cali
n fornian who owns a tract Of 5000
Is acres not far from Cartagena. H
says that it is underlaid with oil am
n that there is Oil all along the coast
is and here and there throughout tn
,r West Indies. This man has been al
of over South America Investigating tn
e oil fields. He tells me that our sis
r ter continent has probably more pc
lg trOleum than we ever had, and tina
SO the most of it is yet to be exploited
Ks He describes the oil fields Of Colombi
W as being SO close to the seabOard tina
IN the oil can be easily piped into tn
by steamers. SO far the country is III
IN developed, but American oil men hav
been coming in, and a thirty-yea
MT concession has been granted to a trat
i'll Of oil fields 100 miles long and s
X miles wide in the Department of Sar
he tander. The owners have agreed
work this field and to put up one {
more refineries, and the governme1
has promised to admit free Of dut
all necessary materials. Arrange
ae ments are now being made for an 0
refinery and warehouse at the DO,
60 Of C~artagena.
is The mineral possibilities of Colon
CIV bLa correspond with those Of Alask;
he 1t was there that Balboa found h
an first gold, when the Indians told hi
les OF the treasures over the mounta;,
in that were afterward opened IN 7
nd P1zarro. Since hat day more tha
OF 700 900 dollars worth Of gold h;
as been taken out Of Colombia. ar
there are mines in a half-dozen ai
nd ferent States which are now pav;,
nd wen. The great bearing recio1
ere are In the mountains of the Choco 81
al Antloqula provinces, and in Il
full ranges between the Cauca and Ma
are oalena rivers. This area covers tn
err sanos OF square miles and gold is sa
a to be found wherever there is grav
the sack IN the mountains. where t
ar rock has been laid bare, there q
eoio VEINS everywhere that requi
ice. only modern machinery and metho
18th for the extraction of the metal. Mn
try OF tnis territory has never been .
ex- plored except by the Indians. The
IS also gold in the Department Of n
r1no, bordering or Ecuador and Or
nuggets are found in the eraveI e
nne OF an ther ivers Of that section viii
un- now into the Pacific Ocean. 'H1
Dor, One Of Tho oaa -,
- lOnnDla Is connected With y