Show BE IT RESOLVED W Col collingston collinston Colllns linston ton utah jan 28 OS editor news the state horticultural society ot of utah held meetings the first tivo and the dry faiming congress the last four days ot of last week in salt lake city all who were present and the I 1 attendance was very large at both conventions may count themselves I 1 very fortunate for many subjects were learnedly discussed bearing on the horticultural and arid farming interests of this and neighboring states one subject of special interest to me and I 1 believe will be to many of your readers was brought prominently before the horticultural convention in ih the form of a resolution severely cri tic ising the promoters of orange and I 1 banana plantations in mexico stat lug ing that they were operating under I 1 the guise of advancing the horticultural interests of the state ind and calling 1 their business methods questionable aisi i iSi 13 that 2 20 0 of the leading fruit growers of the state werd were heartily in sympathy pathy ath with the resolution was evidenced by the spontaneous and longed applause which greeted the reading ot of the same one resolution bearing on the subject of mexico investments in genet general al was presented to the resolution committee of the dry farming Con congress giess all the mem bers were heartily in favor of it but on account of not being germane to the subject of 0 arid farming it was finally decided not to recommend its passage As this committee represented some of the brightest and best informed men of at least sixteen states it may be ba of interest to your the resolution which so favorably fa orally impressed them it is as follows whereas the department of agriculture ri in its year book of 1901 pages and gave to the public a full statement anti and word ot of admonition regarding investments in n mexican plantation schemes for the production of rubber and other tropical products by saying in concluding a long argument on the question rubber culture is a very complex problem which has not yet received the detailed investigation necessary to place it on a scientific and practical basis notwithstanding widespread interest and the investment of millions ot of dollars it cannot be said that rubber culture has passed the ex ve st ige V in tp be been e n fairly reached whereas the same ant in its year vear dook book of 1905 reiterates its former statements and justifies its position of 1901 by saying the reports which the department has published have served as a warning to the public of the he essentially uncertain character of a number of undertakings in tubber rubber culture and have undoubtedly saved to the american public millions illions of dollars whereas it is generally believed that approximately mate ly of U tali tah and idaho capital capita has been invested during the past five years in rubber orange and banana schemes a large per cent of 0 this coming from the farming 1 communities who need all tile the capital they no now have and much more to properly develop the agricultural possibilities of tile the in ter mountain country resolved Ile RL solved that we denounce the and questionable methods employed by agents ot of some ot of these companies in guaranteeing 8 per cent profits an on the investments during the first bear ear and the de delusive ui statements contained in their literature showing the possibilities ot of their conin companies anies in giving returns never heard ot of in legitimate business front from 20 per par cent to go 50 per cent after the first year but guaranteeing nothing being baits thi thrown own out to catch the unwary investor be it further resolved that it be the sense of the trans dry farming congress in convention assembled isem sem bled that we dl di countenance and discourage further investment of our home capital in foreign concerns that have not been demonstrated to be genuine and which have not passed beona the experimental stage to that of secure investments and further that we will do all in our power to encourage the investment of home capital in the development of home enterprises especially the reclaiming ot of the vast areas ot f arid land now along these lings alln es I 1 would like to note a few things which have come to my personal onal notice directly and indirectly through reliable sources I 1 will not mention names but will vouch for the truthfulness truthful nebs of every statement made A president of 0 a prominent western college told me that he had been offered more than a years salary it if he would lend his name to a rubber plantation scheme one of the promoters prom oteis of an orange and banana plantation made tile the state ment on the streets of your city that he believed the scheme which he was working would make him at least one hundred thousand dollars in one year one of the organizers of another scheme ot of tile the same kind said he had made money enough the past year so lie he could retire from business when the question was put to him suppose the bananas do not grow and should prove a failure on your plantation ills his answer was very significant ant we will surely plant and lr fr brigate algate the crop if the bananas do not grow 1 I feel that we have done dona our duty and that we should not be blamed for an act of 0 providence I 1 could add much more along this line showing that the state horticultural society and the tha dry farming |