Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-11

house." But since 1T is in
n Guatemala it is of the Spanish
colonial rather than the English colo
nial type, says Wingrove Bathon in the
Utica Saturday Globe.
The residence is the Office and home
of the largest sugar plantation in Cen
trail America, and to visit it has been a
privilege which has fallen to the lot of
veRy few residents of the United States.
or of Europe, either, for that matter,
as the records of visitors here show.
The great Humboldt came down
through these fertile valleys of black
mad years ago and recorded that he
mad found at last the celebrated "gar-
don of Eden" and he predicted that
what was then a wilderness beneath
the tropic sun would some day blossom
and bear fruit-the sweetest dreams of
the agriculturist.
But he never dreamed that here
would one day be found, as anyone who
comes here may, sugar mill in which
1t was necessary to invest, as is done
In the United States and in Cuba, $780,
900 before pound of sugar could be
obtained. Nor did he dream that visit
ors of today would find, as they do, an
American chemist making sugar with a
polariscope,, assisted by thousands of
Indians of the west coast of Central
America, descendants of the ancient
Toltecs mixed with Mayas.
The approach to Pantaleon for the
writer and the circumstances of the in,
spection were exceptional. 1t may be
as well to set down here that in Guate-
mala and in many other Central Amer
lean countries, plantation, or a series
of plantations, is known as ''finca."
Magnificent Scenery.
The start was made from Guatemala
City, the capital, in the morning. Dowr
grade through magnificent tiews of the
mountains and volcanoes which make
setting for the capital the train trav
eled over the west coast branch of the
International Railways of Centra
America, which was built by the late
c. P. Huntington despite almost insur
mountable obstacles of an engineerin:
character, and among waterfalls AHt
water powers from which some da,
will be developed vast electrical en-
ergy.
Towering above the train as it wount
down through canyons, amid the hazy
| fleecy clouds were the peaks of tn
| twin volcanoes, Aqua Ewater) an,
Fuego (1re), no longer active, whicl
have sent down into these valleys il
years gone by showers of rich blac
mud that coRtains all the chemical ele
ments of the best fertilizers, and i
which three crops of corn each yea
are raised. A third volcanoe, SAINT
Maria, blew out in 1904, destroying mi
lions of dollars worth of property.
The train skirted the shores of on
of the most beautiful lakes in tn
world, as interesting and as beautifr
as anything Switzerland has ever O.
fered any traveler-Lake Amatitlan-
where some of the well-known res
dents of the capital maintain bungs
lows for recreation; not for ''summe
resort" purposes, as there is neithe
winter nor summer in Guatemala
The train passed through miles an
miles of tender, green, young suga
cane, as well as cane in full grOwtl
being cut by the Indian laborers. or o,
casionally by Jamaican negroes, who's
villages of thatched cottages lined th
tracks and were visible in the valley
down which the train sped. Some co
tages were thatched with banan
leaves, some rooted with red, natiy
tiles of beautiful tints.
Indian Fruit Sellers.
Indians came to the train with pin
apples in size and flavor far superit
TO ANYTHING one obtains in the Unite