White Pine news. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-21
|E[Y MAN VISITING HOME
FROM CENTRAL AMERICA

Werner Fox, accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. Bertha Fox, returned to
Ely last Tuesday night, coming from
Puerto Cortes, Honduras, where YER
ner has been for the last twenty-five
months as the head of the electrical
department OF the Cuyamei Fruit
Company, which Is n of the largest
organizations in the fruit growing in
dustry, its extensive operations in
Central America being second only
to the United Fruit Company, which
is perhaps the largest organization of
its kind in the world.
Werner expressed himself as being
delighted with the opportunity of get
ting back into the Ely district again
and has since his arrival been kept
busy meeting friends, al, of whom are
anxious to shake hands with the
White Pine county boy. He says he
likes his new location and regards 1t
as a land of great opportunity for
young men who have the proper
amount of energy.
THE field Is wide and attractive
he said. and when n young man
shows the metal in the employ of any
of the large companies he can rise TO
the head of one of the departments
or a lucrative executive position in
a remarkably short time. While the
rainy season, which lasts for six
months, raining every day and occa-
sionally getting in a ten-day shift in
one, is not agreeable, the rains are
warm and one soon becomes aceus-
toned TO them.
In the electrical department, of
which the Ely man is the head, about
125 men are employed, about half q
dozen being Americans filling such
positions as chief engineer and the
like, where a high degree of efficiency
Is demanded. The remainder of the
force is composed principally of Mex
leans who have sought other fields
to better their condition and who
come chiefly from the southern part
of Mexico. These" Mr.. Fox said,
make good help. They are apt and
anxious to advance themselves The
Cuyamel eompany's principal product
is bananas, with some cocoanuts, for
the transportation of which 10 The
markets OF the United States the
company owns a feet of eleven boats
and is now running three or four
boats a week, each carrying from fifty
to fifty-two thousand punches of ba-
nanas. These are consigned princi-
pally to New Orleans, with some ship
Lments TO the New York harbor. The
company operates SIS miles of tele-
phone lines. with six exchanges. and
four light and power plants. with n
total capacity of about 5000 horse
power. II has just completed the
construction Of a $4,000 900 sugar
factory. which Is all electrically driv-
en- and is expected TO start grinding
sugar this month to take care of the
product from twenty square miles of
territory under sugar.
Mr.. Fox will spend 4 soUd portion
of his vacation, which extends to July
|. in Ely. but will leave here in suf-
ficient time TO pay a short visit to
relatives on the Pacific coast and ex-
poets to sail from San Francisco on a
Pacific Mail boat. which will land
him in San Jose. Guatemala. from
where he will take The Guatemala
National railroad into Honduras.
On the home trip Mr.. Fox and his
mother took about ten days. four OF
which was spent on the boat before
landing in New Orleans. and from
there they came through st. Louis,
Denver and Salt Lake.
Horace Prouse. another Ely hoy. Is
also located at Puerto Cortes and is
superintendent of bridge construction
for a large contracting firm. Mr.. Fox
said that Horace was doing eNcep-
tionally we'll financially and was en-
ioying the best of health. He ron
templates paying a visit TO the United
States this summer but does not he
lieve he will be able to come TO Ely,
owing TO the fact that his parents
moved from this city some time ago
and are now residing In Portland
Ore. where the son will probably
srend most of his vacation period
with them.