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Show ERIS'S RESOURCES M BEDEVELOPED Croker May Interest Americans Ameri-cans in Furnishing Capital to Develop Country. BY THOMAS EMMETT. Sptcial Cablo to Tho Tribune. DURLIN. Dec. "?. A report which coin's from America to I lie effect that Richard Croker Intends to Interest American Amer-ican capital lu the development of Ireland's Ire-land's natural resources, hus aroused much Interest here. There is ample, opportunity here for the profitable Investment of capital in mining. There Is plenty of coal. lead. Iron and tin in the country which Is practically virgin soil. The Irish people peo-ple have not been able to develop these resources mid for perhaps natural rea son ivimiii-ii i'H imui hum uvvii Miy in me Green l.'le. When home rule comes thei Irish who have prospered in the United I States can do no bolter work towards! the upbuilding of the mother land than in furnishing ihc capital needed for her de elopmenl. The South Tlppmry county agricultural agricul-tural committee has under consideration an experimental scheme of fruit-growing promulgated and financed hv the department, depart-ment, proposing to cstabilsh within u. radius of eight miles ot Clonmei forty-one-acrc apple-growing plots?. The area was confined so us to facilitate the grading grad-ing and marketing of the fruit. The total Import and export trado at Irish ports in 1010, according to the annual an-nual report issued on Tuesday. 1 estimated esti-mated at i!lSO,SSS.T.r.. 'as compared with irl2i.72.',S05 in ISO?, nn increase of 6.16:.5ST. The imports amounted to a tolal of 65.S-i 1.253. "Some day :i. Dickens or n. Thackeray will write a novel around the ejctmordl-nnry ejctmordl-nnry circumstances of this case," ni-olnrcd ni-olnrcd Iho master of the rolls iu the. Dublin Dub-lin chancery court, when It way announced an-nounced that the rwsldue of the eite of .Miss Maear available for charities vjb about JCC0.O00. Ills lordship mentioned the passion of the testatrlN for accumulating treasure and placing It In most unexpected plncoa. Searches had been made by tho executors execu-tors iu flower pots and vases, amon;, waste paper baskets and underneath stairs and carpets, for promissory notes, sold, silver and other precious goods. Then there was the discovery thut a lady approaching th ago of CO years, living In a Devonshire village, was the real I heir and succeeded to the Inheritance. |