The Cordova daily times., 1920-06-15

N vestors are going, with great
 schemes for the development of the latent resources waiting only for the capital and energy necessary for their unfolding. In the ROclO, the principal business street of Lisbon, buildings have been secured to re- model or newly build large store houses. At Mount Estoril, the Palm Beach of Portugal the important hotels and concessions have been se- cured by Americans. with the purpose of making it a rival to San Sebastian on the Spanish coast, says a writer in the Christian Science Monitor.
 An electric railway will connect it With Lisbon and Cintra, whose chief attraction Is the Pena castle. Cintra, once the home of the Moorish kings, and later occupied by the kings of Portugal
 large casino is being erected on the beach, and several large hotels of American design and furnishings will be built along the shores of this charming site. And of Vfgo, Spain,
 
 himself-there he has taken up the extensive harb0r Improvements and inland communications. thus to realize the vast undeveloped mineral possi- D1ities of the Galician hinterland and Leon. Railways will be extended to Madrid, making more rapid route for tourists between Paris and South America.
 Everything but Energy. -a Portugal is 8 country rich in all things save in popular energy. Ger many and France until the late war, exploited its sardine industries, one of It's most valuable items of com merce. The cork forests are abun- dsnt, and the olive and grape are very prolific in their yield. Tropical and subtropical fruits of many varieties abound, and can be bought for trif1ing amounts. ...--.-..-.. The Portuguese peasants have been called the most kindly and dependable of all Europe. Each province is dis tinguished by different and most picturesque costume. The excellence of it's climate; the varied aspects and diversity of its vegetation; the multi plicity of its hot and cold springs the progressive improvement In its hotel accommodations, offered at a lower price than that of any others in Europe, make Portugal one of the most favored of lands for the ex- ploitation of the tourist.
 At the present time the Mother of Navigators. as Portugal has been named, Is less known by geographers and archeologists than any other country on the continent. No lands have been better glor1f1ed by nature i; and buried Roman and Celtic-Iberian cities, treasure houses of antiquity, are rich mines for conquest with pick and shovel.
 Portugal is an agricultural country but the sardine industry makes up a large part of her commerce. Millions of boxes of this product of Portu- guese canners bear the imprint of French packers, some even with France as the country of origin. The abundant olive lends itself to the packer of the better-grade sarGine yielding, as it does, a superior Oil.
 The cork tree, which produces a new bark once in ten years, gives an important article for export. Eacl. stripping furnishes about S10 worth of bark per tree. The other woods most abundant are the acacia, poplar, elm.
 
 one acre in five of the total area of Portugal is wooded The more re- mote agricultural and timber districts aSes handicapped by the lack of even reasonably good transportation facil- ities, either railroad or wagon.
 conoIomeration of Races.
 Ethnologically Portugal is con- glomerate The people of the north ern province of Entre Douro and Minho and Tras-os-Montes are Of Galician stock; in the lower provinces the Portuguese have intermarried with the Arab, Dutch, French and English, and, in one province, rlte Tristan.
 The Jews, after their forced cor- version by King Emanuel, intermar- ried with all races. On the southern coast from Cape St. Vincent to the Spanish frontier the influence Of Afri- can ancestry Is very anparent-due to the importation of slaves for serv- ice in the olive groves and vineyards of Alemtejo and Algarves.
 Portugal has distinct national personality in art, music and litera- E,Ira-oanh ho ufrasz l1raifs11n srinnr If