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Show lng equipments made from the guauo palm. Planters are now awakening to tho possibilities of the tree, and one banana ba-nana grower, who annually clears a large acreage for banana cultivation. Is about to send a representative to close a contract with New York Importers Im-porters for a cargo of 150,xi0 feet of guano palru. A recent Inquiry from the tame market calls for 1,000,000 feet The greatest drawback to the rapid filling of orders is the dlfllculty of transportation. Contrary to former expectation?, the export tax imposed by the govern-ment, govern-ment, though considered excessive, h not expected to retard tho Industry to I any great extent. Consular Report THE USES OF GUANO PALM. It Is the custom in Honduras, when clearing land for cultivation, to burn all growths except marketable timber, tim-ber, and as guano palm was considered consid-ered valueless, largo quantities thereof there-of were destroyed. Neverlhele?s the supply is abundant Prior to 190S the value of this timber tim-ber was practically unknown. On one of his periodical trips to Honduras for cargoes of dye and hard woods the captain of a schooner was handed hand-ed a piece of this wood for examination. exami-nation. Realizing the possibilities for the development of on industry, he carried a larger sample to his principals princi-pals in New York. On each successive succes-sive voyage thereafter his cargoes have included large quantities of guano gua-no palm logs. The tree requires a damp, marshy fsoll for its best development and frequently fre-quently reaches a diameter of more than two feet It Is not marketable above that size, however, while the minimum Is eight aud ten Inches It flourishes and Is abundant along tbe lowlands of the coast. The wood In Its natural state is exceedingly por-ous por-ous and light, but damp Hnd soggy. To prepare it for commercial use it Is put through an evaporating process pro-cess to extract the moisture, thereby greatly rc-duclng the weight; 9o that It la not only lighter than ordinary cork, but a given weight is capable of being compressed into much smaller small-er bulk. It Is used pulverized and in slabs. Lately the commercial possibilities of the wood have become known, a6 Indicated by advertisements la trade. Journals offering for sale life preserv- |