Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1916-08-11
coURTvARD or euArEfALAN PLANTATION

states, ana with c0c0nutS, grapes, al
ligator pears, rich, juicy, frGity man
goes of fresh pink and red and pale
green tints, as different from the dark
picked mango of United States con
sumption as can well be imagined.
Everywhere, from Guatemala City
to San Jose, on the Pacific, there was.
in truth, a very garden of Eden,
with immense tracts of land not yet
taken up, ready for the enterprising
citizen of the United States, whom the
government of Guatemala is ready al
every turn to encourage and to assist.
AT Esquintia. modern city of brick
and stone and cement, there are me-
MORALS of the Spanish domination, and
of the times when the aristocracy of
Guatemala went there each January
and February for diversion. 1t is
Ecity filed with palms, and there are
many beautiful baths.
There are other memorials, too, and
some of these attracted Immediate at
tention upon arrival at Pantaleon.
These are Of the Indians who are max
ing that great estate, the greatest in
Central America, still greater. IN the
patio behind the manor house" was
great group of stone idols, visible
through the open doors of the resi-
dence, with fountain for foreground
which was surrounded by four i'm
mense coconut palms, studded few
feet up with that parasite of the trop-
| icS-orchids. No one knew when or
| how the idols had come there.
1t is said that all along the west
| coast once extended the tribes of Cho-
| lula, who founded many 'lOrdships." ;"
| Sculptured stone idols, were first found
in this neighberhood in 1860. Excava-
tions brought to light pillars, statues,
stone obelisks, etc. Bas-reliefs were
found which contained the representa-
tions of the horns of cows. Oxen were
not known in the new world before the
arrival of the Spaniards.
Some psychologists and historians,
therefore, believe that these bas-reliefs
| represent the goddess Isis of the Egyp-
tians. But this has to do with ancient
history and the mystery of the eivili-
Zation and settlement of Central Amer
lea, theme for the scientists. AS we
turned away from the sculptured stone
idols and monuments at Pantaleon
plantation we found, ready waiting, a
most up-to-date steam locomotive and
private car, to transport us through the
miles and miles of sugar cane to San
Vincente, a coffee beneficio Cleaning
factory, and another beneficio, named
San Gregario, also belonging to Her.
rarra Brothers, the owners of Panta-
leon sugar plantation and mill.
Coffee and Sweetening.
The coffee trees had just come into
flower and their fruit was not YET
ready to wash and put through the
, various processes, but we were in lucF
. on the sugar plantations, for it was
cutting and grinding season, and aftel
we had watched the 5000 cattle grain:
: knee deep in the great pastures anC
the Indians cutting the cane we came
back to the mill and the manor house
r In the mill we saw 1000 bags Of 10'
pounds each of refined white suga
being turned out each day. Sugar can
was fed in and refined sugar in sacks
r 1000 of them a day, taken out. TIL
mill worked night and day, "a hours OF
stretch. Grinding season began a
. Christmas and continued until the mid
2 die of May. There are 10000 tons o
5 cane in a crop.
: The white granulated sugar goes t
a the United States and white Demarr
e crystal sugar is made for export t
London. Every Indian on the place ha
been taught there. There is splendi
: laboratory equipment, with perfee
r chemical and scientific control of tn
d product.