Arizona republican., 1919-01-20

world war has taught us.
 "lS it logical proposition that we have to go to Australia for our beef to feed the multitude, or is it far more logical, and cheaper, to raise the beef on our own continent, a matter of three day journey from our own shores? Is it a sound proposition to have to go to the Malay peninsula for our bulk of rubber or for sugar to the Indies? I am fully aware that there is a certain amount of rubber, sugar and coffee and beef imported from South America, but not in sufficient quantity to meet the demand, and especially so when those necessities of life are con- trOlled by the trusts.
 Tt is high time for the hustling American to wake up and expand American interests before the foreign element and foreign capital control every conceivable industry ,as it was before the war. The opportunities are plentiful for the small capitalists to get in on the ground floor and make success befode the price of the land scars up so high that it will be an inn possibility for the little chap to make a home for himself and his family and avoid the great danger of poverty
 The opportunity for the develop mcnt of the cattle industry is one of the greatest Obe considered and investi- gated ,as there are thousands of acres of the finest grazing lands with not a head of beef on it. There is no neces- sity of planting milo maize, alfalfa, corn or barley for your cattle or horses, as there Is an abundant, fertile and un- populated region containing an area of l6,900 square l1ilometers. In addition n ttot- H,,r,r <.fT plants everywhere, and excellent graz | ing for stock on the river plains. l. i sestimated in the region referred to of more than 100000 head of cattle annually.
 The climate of all the Central Amer ican countries varies from quite hot at the seacoast to temperate and pleasant in the interior, a gradual slope, speak Ing generally, occurring from the sea- l coast inland, and in some sections all you encounter is wild game, birds and wild beasts and wild hogs by the thou sands. The lands of Honduras are di- vided in three classes-municipaI private and national or public.
 i The lands are so cheap that it will not break a small capitalist who is 1 trying to get foothold, as the prices | liked TOT the sale of land are from ] F pesos per hectare for cattle lands to ( pesos for the best land obtainable. A hectare is about 7 21s acres, and the peso 1 Of Honduras is worth about 45 cents ir 1 Unite dStates money. Foreigners as well as natives may acquire a domino utir or the use of national lands with out purchasing them. by petitioning the minister of exploitation for a conceS- sion for land for plantation of coffee I cocoa, rubber, vanilla, indigo, sugar cane, cotton, olives, ramie, bananas cocoanut trees, oranges, lemons, sarsa-
 parilla, chicle and tobacco. The coun-
 try is still in it's virginity, and a ma jority of it is yet unexplored, and tho population is estimated at abou
 250,000, the majority Indians, who com
 prise the labor of the country, and a:
 such are very good in handling cattle agriculture and laboring as miners They cannot be excelled in their owr
 environment. But capital and brain.
 are badly needed to make the countr,
 prosperous, and that prosperity vii
 bring in more capital and help to pop
 ulari2e it as the United States has haI
 to go in the same path of unbrokeI
 trails to bring it to where we are to
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