| Show FAIR HONDURAS I ACountry Rich in Possibilities Lying Convenient Conve-nient to the United Shies Young Alnrlconond old ones to to ore longing for nOv lund tu conquer and whohv the ambilon to accumulate enormous oath will be Inlrrtt In the follow InB fuels trial ed by fay L rJchlffel who has just returned front nn extensive trial through Honduras Mr Schlffcr wnt donix Into thin South American country coun-try In I the Interests of the Central anti 14 truth American Mining Develop mnt rnpanywhich Is I controlled largely I by American apltal although there ate x4veral natives 4ln n small Interest lit I tho company Mr lhller returns thoroughly rnvlno1 that rorln avralt those thrifty hut lg Arderiesini who are Killing to bury themselves for 0 few years In or del to acquire the riches which this country pumpernect When seen yesterday ho Bald There Is I a great opportunity for so rlen card tat find American Indian trr In Hondorll While It Is true that mrtin th tin S ve IsTealous I of us nt the sam time he is I afraid of Uncle Sam and hn you have n person In I n state of ahJrt fear You are fairly safe from molestation I believe thai our Inter et till IH site for this very reason In Rifle o I the fact that tho government Is I turn every now and then with Inter al I illemenslon wlh Ivolutons orur Far frequently there that It Ifl dimcult to keep lusted Hut they seldom amount to much and the fighting If any It I confined to the capital the Inland sections feeling no io the struggle hlch this Party oe that Party may b making for ou lomaCI IGNORANT LAZY NATIVES I found the nn liven as a rule Ignorant Ignor-ant lay and dir said Mr Schlffer The houses are all onestors affairs anti Sometimes 1 whol famiy of tn or a dozen people will live In a mal hut along with the pigs and other do treacle animate They are extremely hospitable and the traveler hap only to halt ot the dtior and enter 1001 will tie mad voincubere for film to 11 and food such as It Is I will be provided It was too dirty for me and I often swung my hammock out In tho open air In Preference to enjoying the cover of a toot fur the nights are cold find damp and several times when the thermometer ther-mometer had been 75 degrees Pahr during the day I suffered at night from the cold In I matte of the two Me blankets blank-ets which I had wrapped around me The area of Honduras Is I about 45000 square miles I Is I about entail In slz lo the state nt Pennsylvania In 1887 tile total population Is I given ns J3I S17 of which I wall estimated that there were 1033 English 185 Americans 1 Spaniards 72 Trench and 4 neimai r That was over tell years ago anti many hane have occurred since thIL Mr Stianares ocurre Airsi charter said that tho i Tiber of Americans hud grent Y Increased of lute I The luslIdl car of the railroad by the syndicate In which John Jacob Aster Washington Valentine the Vis Sideart tits M organ I end other big capltalHls lire Interest his required UK skilled labor of many Americans ant they have moved there In many Instances with their families 1 Is I ox revisit that whin this rallroal Is I completed com-pleted l tho country will bo developed > rapidly and tit Innormo prul The great difficulty In the pat mid the main obstacle resting In the way ot the Industilat ptogress of the country has hn lack or Mean of Iralorlon Till has been done largely by pack mules Tiinrn CHOPS 1 YEAR The soil lii I the richest I have ever seen continued Mr Schlfter A Oeor gla man has In carrylng on expert mont there luring the last I fv years and It Is I found that three crops of cotton cot-ton und hut an Ile raised und harvested har-vested a Year Tile landi need Irrigating Irrigat-Ing to reach these woderful result lit there Is plenty of water In the his anti there Is nt match expense In a rompllshlng this At present the country coun-try Imports Hour from the United States paying at the rat of 12 or 13 a barrel This Is explained by th heavy cost of Inland transportation from re tclvyiff ports There Is a splenAld field for grain Solng In Itortilluma and one of the I objects of any recent trip was to ob lath from the government concessions In the wa > of wheat lands said Mr hchlffer enthusiastically Our pur IKIBO Is I to build a first rate mill down there grind the ht grosvin oil our own hinds and supply the demand w hlch now makes possible nn Import of flour front the United States Our om puny alrI tins 0 grant or mining land three mie In extent and one and onhlf mil wde TIm frills nil through Honduras tire fish In mllrnl Mining machinery must be transported In pimps on the backs ot mules fruit 1 the PiNtr 1 and gold wheji obtained Is I carried to shipping points In bars In the came mnnnr If It vessel not fo thin drawback 0 mine would be 1 per rot lonanl WILL m A ma COUNTRY Thr are large Innno plantations I and a steamer pie tvvln a week between be-tween Puerto Cortez and New Orlean I nod that call nwlnl to I Incraolng each seal lift ill promlts that Rome lay It u III he 0 large still Important In sanitary The coffee 10 of fine quality I nr enjoyed n lore delicious bever no than u ru P mt from the native hn 00 on has hn keen enough 10 see tho possibilities of rubber growIng grow-Ing unit Several large plataton have I Hn set out A > It takes from six to Ight sears for a rubber trie to reach Its perloil of usefiitnesi It will he Rome lime before supplies from this source can ho expected The Unltfd States monde coroe of vegetables In the way 01 potatoes cabbages cab-bages canned goods etc but I Must I cnfe s that Cnnlnnd and Holland np IMr tn have the bulk of than buslnmil I nndr Ihi Ir 1 conlrnl t California Is I mak I I 1ndr I big bid forllonduriis business end Is I ranking good hdwn too On I my way town I met meveral drutilme 11 lro < L42 far Frisco houses They al rprte satisfactory returns fo tho lor l > t I faith California Vince have nlray secured 0 strong foothold They are shlppml dim from Sun Pmnclsci to the only Pacific port Amipala The United suites Is I Standing dress goods UnlOI on a small scale I understand that nsji result of the boom colton growing Is expected to have one enterprising i American has already i mad arrangements arrange-ments to put up a mill He will turn 1 nut I full line of cotton dress goodl ant nnllclpnles I hnnd om profit Thin nlll nienn Hint a full staff of skilled 1 Arnellcan mill hands wilt 0 required The American imputation will thus I clay Inore1 and the hold olr People will hoe will be materially strengthened II regard to ho Honduran eye let mnt companyor tho a Indleutn It In I more ommonly enlicsiI can onlY lay that up to also Present time they hv centered thdr olentonon their railroad Intr although Sit to I no doubt but that III se Asters nl ome of the other big people arc looking forward for-ward to the time when largo tract 0 I land fr I will he brought under their con 111 hIe the time In I coming when the Unitmi States I Crowd out all other nlo In oomptton for the prizem offered hy thin beautiful country 1 Ill I onl wlhll Iho last row years tMt W hn halt our attention atrct e 10 tile opporlunll offered hit we tire located wlhln enoy Shipping 1 trance and Ihl 0mhln1 with the larrp amou tits or card tat ready to bo Invented In-vented In th Wrist thlisrs will go a great way towards making us 1 Irm tr Rhlrr concluded by saying that lie expected to return to Residents Inn In-n few eI a Thr were mnny harl shift to bn enclutdl In the present tnt 0 o civilization < but It would Dot ho long before nno 011 lie amply rold fM ill the ileprlvatlons StIfTOTedCOMmer clo America |
