Show nun I GOLD OPPORTUNITIES FUR FOREIGNERS in tho Neighboring Republic ot Colombia The Falls I 2 Of 0 5 ru 1 SP Correspondence Colombia March leBo c fore tore this biff republic which witch next dour dOUt neighbor to the thu tiCS lies ea na U failed States Incites we WO ought to pay some Mention Attention to the tho Inducements It offers to North Americans As mistress of Ut connecting hyphen between Jet tho thu two continents Colombia must some somo someday someday day da become b curne a n very Important part of oC atthe the western hemisphere and with the tho completion of et tho the Panama canul route r tho sheltering wing of at t Undo Uncle Samuel It will progress ess moro more in tho the thon n nut ut t than It has hus In tho the four foure centuries e the first Spaniards at nt attempted tempted to colonize It So fur tar the op for tor profitable Investment of ot o brains and capital In III Colombia have hare IlVO not ot been Jeen numerous nor nOI no varied cat ut lire are literally golden olden because there thet Is almost no competition Every Ever Everything thing In the tho line IIno of oC American manu manufactures I Is needed hero hrU and finds a 1 leady market marlet when brought by mer mor merchants chants who vho understand tho the ways of ot tho Iho long credit system even elon when they tho could Just an ilK au well vell pay aY cash down and their ceremonies nies of at politeness In tho the smallest busl bust transactions For l or example In ilia cheapest articles so 80 common among u uto us Uro to ro Uil to obtain here lucre the tho shrewd yankee who vho first Introduced our cheap cheal cheapest ut est market baskets made nn an enormous fortune The Tho man made an nn another another other the th wheelbarrow man another and nd the tho th peddler idler of oC pressed ac nu actually coined money In lii his tour of oC the tha country countr Of ot course piano organ argon ami arni lIan agents agents electric light telephone and have bare ben been abroad In tho the land some somo I ye years cars rs and ami nd already reaped rich harvests I mit Dut even cven these things have hare been sup SUI supplied plied only to three or four tour of ot the larg Jarg largest est und and there Is still unlimited demand for tor them And lid the tha Holds of oC according to Improved methods fruit raising cattle raising tv te t e poultry business with Incubators rubber culture the manufacture of ot chocolate from the th native bean Jenn and a thousand thou other ways of ot utilizing what nature so bountifully offers In Coloro U bl are all nil unworked The resources of ot the th country aro absolutely nhI both In extent and variety Its rous rivers render the th agricultural and Ml manufacturing facilities exception exceptional al sI In metallic wealth It shows the same amr that characterize e ethe the mountain section u of at the tho th rest ot of Fouth You know It Is said that the UI world produces every year cur about one Cue hundred million dollars worth of at und Jul million dollars dollar worth of and ami of oC this amount credited to the aLOnE spIte of Its lis and continual revolutions contributes annually n ass Its lis quota thus thu respectable Iu turn tiun of ot five Ovo millions of oC gold III anti millions of oC sliver Ao Ac to than whom there thero Is IR no n better authority wi ca has put into circulation n something ow over I iiO O tuna ton of ot pj tous metal or the tile mount of t 1 MoSt of It the th tl old are ure yielding aa us well Voll of a they tIlt did wn eun tories HBO ago stud new ants are de beIrut constantly discovers dl Hv ly tho tue ay 1 Mulhall places the tho United fates ates R on all the thu lIt list of ot gold geld 01 UI i nn third The rho principal minerals yet et discovered III I n Cohen ut me lire ii t e H ou I I t v t Ill in oury nury our platinum cinnabar aiU aul nitre rho region of or till the th cor cordillera has hns never Mer be been n much explored LOUt therefore nn sun estimate l of ot Its Ita mining possibilities be bl made There Is a wonderful emerald minI mine not far from and ana s DIB nu taken taleen tram froin rein It rival any nil alt h lu V nM 1111 ran rail pro Itro produce i idUN lure dUN The pearl thee of or uro are too 00 well veIl to t need mention They are arc sill stIll by native and aunt Chinese with very ely veryl l but naturally those who hold government permission to 10 work worl the fisheries ore aro saying ns liB little I about theta them ns to ovoid avoId II 0 hi com e titian Some fome one of the HIP finest tobacco In Inthe Inthe the orld grows grous In III Colombia that from tram which the turnouts famous Ambalema cigars are ure made Sugarcane rotten cotton and 0 coffee corree thrive to perfection lucre here h re sod end In other sections potatoes wh nt corn corll sail and all the fruits fruit of ot the temperate zone zono Hour lull I h side by side Id with tropIcal growths The rh forests that cover corer at nt I least of ot the entIre country abound In valuable woods of or all nil de descriptions mahogany i one ue cedar cedol the tree treo whose ho e tap ap makes makos the tho treo tree cones comet back hack from flom G a 11 In the tho form ot at quinine the shrub from tram whose WhORl loaves leaves cocaine Is made mado anti nn na endless list lift of ot medicinal Jinny of at the latter aro ore known to 10 science but hut are exceedingly rare while others are equally potent and und some of oC them undoubtedly superior to anything yet et employed In len have ha vo been used by b tho the Indians since time out of ot mind For one thing thin what all nil the resources of or science have failed to compass tho cure of at hydro hydrophobia phobia anti the bite of the most deadly has been heen long ago ngo by 3 the Colombian Indians with vitti simple roots arid herbs A few Americans and other foreigners In this are making good Incomes from hunting vanilla beans and an other oilier spontaneous productions of oC the forest am and not lot n a few tew are getting rich In the of at rare orchids to European As everywhere else elso In doctors dentists don lists oven even en schoolteachers anti and milliners from the this United States Ore In Iii great demand and command 10 times the dole dolo they receive for their services at the tho north It Is an un Idea that Intense heat prevails everywhere so near to the line typographical teal ical configuration determined by the three great ranges ranes Into which the tho Asides Andes branch off as ns hear n nr the Isthmus gives an nn alternation of It deep valleys and heights height that rise shots above the lie hue lino of at perpetual enow Imo nil alt over the th country and con can consequently a great erent diversity of oC climate from the cold of ot the polar regions to the tho sweltering heats bleats of ot Senegal Se while the tablelands and hillsides preserve the weather of our nt states tes scarcely varying live five degrees In Iii from froni year to year It U is I Ionly only In the tue river valleys alleys of at the Interior which are aie mostly covered with swamps and tropical forests that Intense heat anti Its resultant diseases prevail Hereabouts one does not need to go north or south to find change of ot cli climate clisante mate sante but merely merel up or 01 down dowis The successive elevations of at the Andes pro sent all grades gradell of oC transition from per perpetual summer to eternal snow while willie williebel between bel these extremes at elevations from fb iv to 10 feet you find un on unbroken broken spring throughout the tho change changeless changeless less year and healthfulness so extraordinary extraordinary that the favored denizens d find It to 10 tile lie except from extreme old ite The great sanitarium of ot the Caribbean coast Is IH Turbaco built Upon uon a tl high hill hili a I few tew miles from Cram Cartage Cartagena na slit at 1 t the edge of at the forest forestA A description de of Colombia without mentioning mention 11 the turnouts famous roils rails of at Tequendama damn dama would seem peem akin to the frequent frequently I ly experiment which nobody ever tried of ot attempting to play piny limn Ham Hamlet let without tho 1110 Prince of ot Denmark To reach rEnch them train from requires a n along along long Journey on horseback In course of or which one ono must depend upon the hospitality Of ot the people for two to nights or three according to ones ability In Inthe the saddle The Tho route lies lloa straight Kress the tho PLAIN ILAl and ind then skirts the tho foot of at lulls hills whose almost pelt sides Ides Jut Jul a thou ald 1801 feet reet above the tho road You Vou crow cross i It quaint tone stone bridge which bear on a curved carved tablet the tho dat of uC 1734 1736 pans S do hll ranches hedged with tall loll 4 act of ot the tho prickly pear and organ variety arlt and nn clumps of oC gigan tIe ie ekes Klocs or century plants plant many mn w of them hem rearing a 1 in the Js dis tams ance a n with within Ith Ithan in an enormous cluster of St white flowers it at t the lop toji constantly tI meeting droves St ot f laden IRden with kegs keg of at unel el native QI and or lIe favorite beverage chich TIssue There U Is a 11 where you OU may ma always rind had groups of at country people Ill li Inking out of beautiful gourds d with black fig II figures ures lures which excite the sin of covetous covetousness ness aces In tho the most Christina Christian and ant Just within the edge of ot athey Is U th the quinta within whose hn luOsa 9 hos bos Pliable walls vails travelers must pass Ps the Iho night both bolh going and anti returning Irma from the fulls falls Next ext morning you ou maXo mako nn an early earl earlier th Ih the bettor for tor forthe the rend before jou ou Is l long and ind nd tent p the falls the country becomes Indescribably lovely Jual Under tall lall plain trees grow the rarest ferns them a species of or gigan gigantic tic maidenhair priceless orchids COf with yellow lIow flowers wild wIllI Dad and geraniums with trunks minks like trees tr titi purple blossoms re butterflies with wings and over oven nil lilt and rd r d nod blue macaws macaw ore are anti and monkey e are tire swinging from the branch rs 5 Suddenly Sud lIly you emerge from the 1 into an open space aol and see ee before you ou juch uchi a view Ie 1 n ns as Is rarely presented rb its eyes A t huge amphitheater of at mighty rocks locks weird with d dense nse yes elation surrounds a n magnificent cas cascade cascAde cade cede ho e height Is variously stated from WO toO 00 Ia to lO a n thousand feet feel The whole body of ot the river forcing Itself lt elC through ov fissure In the heights above comes cOn com s tumbling down wIth willi deef deet titus i r until In Iii mist and vapor It MK II into n U pool of ot Incalculable depth and then Ihen quietly flaws away through the alley b lo Tile Trie mists reflect all the colors of or the rainbow and such luch Is the force of at falling water that it has haa actually hollowed out a 0 well ell In the tho solid rock estimated as IlI at nt least OO feet flet deep Birds fly lly In and out of or orthe the spray and It Is saul paid J that behind the tho cascade are oases eases In which great num numbers here bers of ot make their nests hosts Of Ot course the Iho superstitious In Indians diane have surrounded the place Ilace with legends They say the Orent reat Spirit himself t tore the mountains apart so that the lie river might aught come through bough to fertilize the hue fields of or their ancestors Geologists argue arup that the tho great plain of with Its lis hills wan vas nt ut one time the tho basin ballin of ot a freshwater lake Inke which was wall maintained by tho lie Bogota river with Its liB numerous branch branches es rushing Into It until finally waters overflowed the lie natural dam of ot rocks rOI ks on nit Its itA southern edge e began the th formation of tin the ama cascade In course of ot time the thi dam was wal entirely swept away own and tho the lake loke drained with the assistance tance of ot one ono of or the earthquakes that so frequently rend the Andes FANNIE n II WJ D |