| Show COMMITTEE CO l BACK FROM FRO l Sent by Montezuma Orange and Banana Company to Investigate Their Holdings TROPICAL FRUIT GROWING NOT EXPERIMENTAL Sw Saw Oranges t tnt In lii All 11 I Stages c of Ir GIh ili ou it Tran tI it I ice it And 11 titi Eli n of lI COI Report nl poll Orange n Co Cn Salt Snit Lake City Utah Gentlemen Your our Committee sent Petit f to Inspect the tho plantation at Mexico Ielo and to tD Investigate th the tha condi condl conditions lon relative to the growth arid and pro production ducton of or oranges and rout roa subunit submit the following We e left lef Salt Lake Lako City January lith at iii 3 50 p II in lit 1 and arrived January l t tat at 30 p ii I in 1 at TAMPICO TAIlO JI GATEWAY GATEY OTI Y TO UE in a I few tew miles fillet from tram our plan Illon with wih u a population of ot has become the lh principal port Ill of ot the He lie n public The Custom HOUR and nl Jetties Jettes which have hao h heen en constructed by hy the Government at Rt a aoi oi nl t ot of OO era nrc c equal ual to any an thing thin elsewhere In th l tie world More MOI than thirty steamship lines touch monthly At nt this pOI us lS facilities for shipping our pro ducts luts to the markets oC of the world QUn TIe The h plantation Is locaL located ed M cl on the river rl r which is ts nav navigable zia na for tOI tidIes miles Inland and Is the I only fresh water I stream in the stir sur surrounding rounding country Wo Ve spent two weeks on 01 our alI land nt at and In iii Inthe 11 the immediate vicinity making a care car careful careful ful rul study stud of ot the climate soil soli ol rainfall and temperature kinds of Qt fruit most profitable and an the th best methods of ot cultivating harvesting anti and shipping the th products We Ve t have havo ha about 1400 1 00 acres of ot land fertile 11 especially adapted to tl the thus growing ot or oranges bananas InI all ni citrons fruits truls also 1150 pineapples strawberries vitae cane tobacco corn beans bealls rice and ancl all n kinds of cit I vegetable grown In II northern and southern climates IRRIGATION The Tho land Is IR splendidly situated E for tor Irrigation The fall back from frol the lIver averages 64 GH 0 feet to the untIe mile mie and the th lift of o the tho water seater to the tit th highest point on the hand is about 12 feet reet tanking making It practicable to In uto n a 1 pumping plant and raise c water at n a 1 expense pense as lS there is wood on the place piece for fuel tuI to run Iun a 1 pumping plant for many years AND ID TI Rainfall In co and ant vicinity av m H 44 IncItes Inches the temperature av a around about i t degrees the thc year real SHIPPING FACILITIES Our location on the Tames river Is Ideal Iden for tor shipping The present meth math method method od of transportation down the river rier to Tampico where nil all al steamers are now loaded is I by b steam munches launches anti and rivet river steamboats at nt a 1 cost of ot bout about per car In 11 course coulse ot of time the ocean steamers cnn can come coats alongside our own wharf where they ran In lull be he loaded with but trill trilling lag ing InS cost for tor shipment to Eur Kur Europe ope opo and the United States Stater In ad addition to this advantage of ot transportation we IC are arc but ut a n few tc miles from rota the Monterey branch of or the tho Max Hex lean icon Central Railroad the nearest near Rt shipping point to the th United States Stat where our products can enn be he loaded at ata atI a I smith email cost COlt for tor shipment to la interior cities lles as well wel as os to the United States CLIMATE CLI rATE AND HEALTH Tho The climate cIliate in our Is IR per Jer perfectly adapted to the cultivation of ot all ll tropical products The fertility fertl of or thin the th oil wl if is unlimited rainfall Is II abundant cheap labor Jabor plentiful and nd there Is no tropical region In the thA world ro so 10 tree free from the thu malarial complaints peculiar to 10 southern And well uvell watered DEMAND AND SUPPLY rho The Increased consumption and attn roll can sequent demand In hi the UnI ed 1 States for tor Or the ns at a I fruit anti ant the ninny many useful u necessary products Into which It is I now lEon no place placeIt It the tue staple articles of or com commerce 01 merce mertye mer In Great Orpal the th banana Is IA hardly known to 10 most of o the forty trillions mi 10 1 of tut people there und and in Con Continental til Europe l n a like Ik condition pro pre veils is fiS evidenced by 1 the fact tact that n a I is now iton being created In lii II Ger Gor Germany Gel many These farts facts are iro evidence enough that the thi production of at Paean us lit 18 cannot lie hue overdone when too we IJ consider that only a I small area aI of ot the earths surface urtle IK is I suited to the tite banana anti amI of that area orla only 01 a n frac fraction then tion Is fa so o that banana growing cnn In be lc h made largely I profitable for tor or n 1 ItO cl arl large Inre parts of ot the tho belt hel are nrc high dry iry II or rie others olton are sandy nr or rok took deserts rtH and ant an tuti ni Immense part partis I is by h oceans OCel nH TRANSPORTATION Freight ht rates from fro l to 10 Den Denver D n ver Sd 1111 City Cly Chicago New 1 York C 11 IS Points point are and 11 I 51 S 5 L I I car loads Water oter transportation tation to 10 New Now Orleans Orl Is 15 20 coItus cents per Jel I By liy rail from trem Now Nouv No Orleans to tu ho tue principal cities cle of or tho Ito Unite lulled 48 43 6 cents per 1 1 hundred MANAGEMENT f fA A force torce of ot Peons PeonA under tinder the supervision of or Mr Ales AI Ae Smith an on old tine time resident of oC Tam runt pico thoroughly c with tile tle fruit growing industry familiar with wih the he language Inn Ro and customs of o the 1 Nat N I lOa voa S and full fail tul of at faith falih In II the tue are iru clearing end olid planting the tite lano lauia Inlo anti and building hug houses hou on 01 a ut Ut on the tue bunk bank bUllI nf lt the I e erler river wh ra the Ihl company OICA anu for tho lie laborers tire permanent permanently 1 ly y located TROPICAL FRUIT GROWERS VISITED ISlED McDonald operate nn tin ex ax orange orchard near and hlo hiti been bellI shipping lem letti lemons 11 otis ons Oi grape frail and winter whIter vegetables in iii large quantities for tor a Q number ulber ot of years 18 I The Thu Planters have hU acres plumed Into will wi ident 1500 1600 acres I more 1010 In ill the n neat ur II future The Rubber Hubl r Company ut of California tire are preparing to plant H ii large acreage In II bananas In itt southern Mexico The he Mexican Banana nananu of tt Mexico City CI with thu th well known ban bui banana 1 ann ana 1111 raiser Dr Chas Chaa M t 1 Harrison as its I president Jr has hns been blen organized with u a capital of Qt gold and und will wi plant SOU OP DIes acres In itt II bananas near Hear Turn Taut TUI The Tho International Lumber and Ind De Dc Development Co u a I Philadelphia carper corpor corporation 1101 wIll wll ideaL 2500 acres of ot bananas on their plantation in 10 southern Mexico The Coapa Development Company of at Chiapas Mexico begins began planting of at nele of ot 1st Summing up tip lp nil all 11 these th so facts there Is 18 no ito doubt about the grow growing growIng ing lag of a oranges nod In our locality 10 The Jho fhi is it In Iii II no way WIY sia experimental but bul Is un en assured n fact as the Is moist l and warm scares tin thu 11 year eur around thu 1011 soil is rich and humid water is iii the land is IH level leel easily UI cultivated and Ind Irrigated d with witha wih n a 1 rainfall to produce good ont I iO rc results most ro t of ot the even avert without Irrigation und nil ni fruits froths grow grois Arow luxuriantly cathy antly when properly cultivated Lubor and transportation are cheap chall and right at our OUI doors doom markets are le certain and InI unlimited and prices are 1 high The Ti only 11 other factor essential to the sue su IU rose NIB ot of n this thin enterprise Ic is lt the lo local nl which is tiow 10 in the ti LI hands handl of ot a I competent untiring ull work worker WOI er r thoroughly acquainted with the II country the kl rl I handling of ot lab labor labor or fr stands well wel with the thc commission and shipping chipping companies who speaks the Iho tbt Mexican l language fluently and ond s 9 confident of ot tho the future success s of or the business H if J L GRIFFIN GRIFFINE E 13 S II H C Salt SnIt Lake City Apr Ir 22 1907 The anti and of the company are lre lreH H II L 1 President and Gell Elms Ellas Ela I K S II 1 t C Secretary Ser W S Treasurer T j 0 Q Kimball Auditor Attorney torf E hi S K F l W Grant Gen Gm General eral erl Agents H 11 L Grimn Pres I oB H It L f Company wholesale Banana dealer Ogden Utah Ulah A 11 II Snow Horticulturist l Salt Lake City Utah John Shelley and Merchant Shelley Shelle Idaho P F O G Johnston and Ex 1 x landowner Idaho ADVISORY BOARD BOARDW lID W V S 8 McCornIck banker Stilt Knit Lake City B D F Grant Gen Agent Ican leun Rubber Co Salt Halt Lake ILl John Filigree hanker banker Ogden VIsit Sam J 1 Rich attorney a it t law la anti Ida Gustavo Anderson Andrson Utah Geo Ceo n K r Wilcox banana expert ex perl Ocol lan Inn Mexico Alex Smith extensive Mexican land lund landowner landowner owner o Mexico L H It zeal real estate Salt aH Lake City H 2 Commercial Block Salt Bait Lake ISke City Alex AIt Smith 40 10 Mexico Send for Illustrated booklet giving full particulars Orange Co Block Salt Kail Lake City Utah |
