Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-02-07
oU1N1NE FAMINE FEARED.


If the European war continues much longer where
the people of the United States to get their usual supply
of qunines At the breaking out of the war suphate OF
ouinne was selling about 20 cents Wholesale
wear ago sold for 40 CENTS today it is selling for 5O
an ounce When it is stated that during the fiscal year
ending June 30 1914 the last normal year prior to the
war; the United States imported nearly 100000 ounces
of sphate of qunne then valued at about $6oOOOO and
3648000 pounds of cnchona bark valued at $4o4
O00 may be what such difference III price may
mean to the country.
Great Britain controls the cnchona bark industry in
her possessions of India Ceylon and jamaica and Hol
land the product of Java and these the sections OF the
world which have been furnishing practically its supply
of qunne the form of cnchona bark for the last 30 or
80 years Great Britain is carefully outstanding the sup
ply for the of her armies and those of her allies while
the Dutch must be depended upon to supply those of the
central powers Armies in the field need vastly larger
supply of qunine than would the number OF I'M
ordinary occupations qlnne famine is feared
for the rest of the world.
Time when certain countries of South America,
where the cinchona trees originated supplied the world
and the story of qunine and how introduced Eu
rope told by Edward Abes in the current number of the
Bulletin of the Pan-Amercan Union.
Once upon tme-276 years ago. to be more exact
in her viceroyal castle in Lima, Peru lady lay i'll of
fever She the Countess Ana wife of the fourth count
of Chnchon who at the time vceroy of Peru News
of the lady illness having reached one Don Juan Lopez
de Cannzares the Spanish coregdor of LoXa who dwet
$50 miles south of Quito, in what is now the re-
public of Ecuador he dispatched parcel of certain kind
of powdered bark to her physician Juan de Vega with
the that it sovereign remedy and
failing specific in of intermittent fever He knew
this to be true from both experience and observation for
about eight years prior this event he had suffered from
severe attack of fever and had been cured by old
Indian of Malacotas who had thus revealed the remark
able properties of this mark Since then he had observed
it's effects in other The remedy tried
and the countess cured The given by the abor
ignes to the tree which grew this wonderful bark
"quina-quina."
In 1910 the count of Chinchon returned Spain with
his wife. She took with her quantity OF the healing
bark and thus the first person to introduce it into
in Brazil sent parcels of the powdered bark to Rome
whence distributed by the Cardinal de Lugo to
other members of the fraternity throughout Europe.
was therefore, often called Jesuts bark and sometimes
Cardinals bark Something 100 years after the
countess of Chnchon had introduced it into Spaln Lin
the great Swedish botans in making his cassf
cation of all known trees and plants to the
service rendered to mankind by that lady, named the
genus which yields the bark cnchona and subsequently
still further immortaized the by giving it to the
great family of trees and plants known the Chin
chonaceae which includes not only the ChnchOnae but
also the ipecacuanas and the coffees.
In their native habitat, in Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia and
Colombia the trees flourish in cool and equabe temper
are the slopes and in the valleys and ravines of the
mountains surrounded by the most majestic scenery
descending below elevation of $500 and ascend
ing high 5000 feet about the When in good sol
d under favorable circumstances they become large for
Nrees; the higher elevations and when crowded and
Ng in rocky ground, they frequently up tc
|ghts without branch and at the upper limit Of
kas Whey become mere shrubs. The leaves in the
g% ware anceolate with shining surface OF
- Nversed by crimson veins, and petioles Of
~ Vefl0Wers small and hang in cluster
hgeneraly OF deep roseate color