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Show BIG MONEY IN BANANAS ', I Some Fortunate Utahns Who Have Secured a Choice Tract of Banana Zand. NEAR TAMPICO, MEXICO Lucky Purchase of J. M. Jensen and . R. South Will Be Looked After hy an Incorporated Company. Mexico is famous for its productive areas, and accounts of the yields in tropical fruits read like fairy stories; yet because of lack of proper facilities for transportation, the republic is largely large-ly undeveloped to the present time. True there are many acres of valuable valua-ble land along the roast or on the large rivers, but it is next to impossible to purchase any amount of it. The Mexican peon owns his two or three-acre farm and finds himself enjoying en-joying an independent living obtained with very little exertion. He is therefore there-fore reluctant to part with his possession. posses-sion. A few years ago there was living near Tnmpico, Mexico, a man who was more fortunate than his fellows. He had an immense tract of land, 10.000 acres in all, and he found himself a wealthy man, but trouble came to him and in' a auarrel he killed a rival. In the legal battlfl that followed to save his life, his cash was exhausted and he mortgaged his plantation. The papers were held bv the Bank National of Tampico. A foreclosure resulted and at this juncture J. M. Jensen of Brigham City and E. R. Houth of Logan came to "Tampico in search of investment. They eagerly sought for and obtained the plantation in question, paying the amount asked then and there. The value of their purchase can hardly be computed. Over 2000 acres of the land is cleared and ready for cultivation. Every acre will support 200 banana plants. These plants will yield fruit the first year after they are set out. Each plant will yield one bunch the first year, two the second and four each year thereafter. The bananas ba-nanas can be sold at from 50c to $1 a . bunch on the place, so that each acre will yield a small fortune each year. The cost of cultivation is so small it hardly figures at all and our Utah friends who are fortunate enough to have purchased this tract are to be heartily congratulated. Articles of incorporation were filed and a company was organized to properly prop-erly handle the plantation and make it yield its utmost. The personnel of the incorporation is: J. II. Hancock of Hancock Bros. Commission company, this city, president; J. M. Jensen of Brighani City, vice-president; E. R. South of Logan, secretary; W. 8. Mc-Cornick, Mc-Cornick, treasurer. Directors are J. M. Jensen, J. A. Hancock, George Spencer of Randolph, banker and merchant; A. G. Barber, Logan; Lo-gan; W. A. Miles, Spanish Fork, miller. Tampico is the principal seaport of the republic of Mexico, and is also reached by two branches of the Mexican Mexi-can Central railway. This plantation is on the Panuco river, the largest in the republic, and only twelve miles from Tampico. The river is navigable to ocean steamers so that a wharf can be built on the place and shipments made direct.' That immense fortunes can h made in banana culture is certain, and especially espe-cially so where transportation .facilities .facili-ties are as ideal as those enjoyed by the Tampico Fruit company. |