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Show vnTrn nidfra iimiTwiiWi-rir- 17 A n EVENING A(hmim Who Know (he Loral FVht Make Ttwir Announce-men- u cwO Through the Invariably I a. TRUTH AKD LIBERTY. PAKT 5if V. three SATURDAY JANUARY SALT LAKE (TTY UTAH FtvXofrwphs taken apnalr for Th News by F"nmk O Carpenter. PART OP A BIO RECLAMATION PROJECT IB PORTO RICO. attnos- - 0 1912 TEN MODERN SUGAR MILLS IN OPERATION. to over 1.100,000, and the whole is phere is full of prosperity and progress. Kan Juan has a to ht The cities are growing Rico WASHINOTVIN. doing Means Beggary to Big Business whit inan now 48.000, Ponce, 5,000, Mayague. Nevertheless IS. 000 and Caguas. 10,000 Trusts burden Wealth of the iouMer-- l it at th clow of our the majority of the peopio still live n H Family--Ne- w of Dollars Banks war 1th rqxilii add lx1 lias now been itT the country, less than Deposits Money in them being in cities, of lu.OOO or over. toting it f.rr more than 13 years Coffee Uncle Fruit What hate we calii accomplished in The density of population is now "15 Porto Ri, Haiva. i. Ouam and the per square mile, which ia an i IV of 47 since 1859 Philippines at flil.- - was organ u- I in 19K' It is noxx InfTeaccd. (ive jn ? x milium doil n v xt h. t;.,i. Hate tlH islands been bettero.1 A BfHl.VESri 18 BOOM 1XO (AD Mu, and thw W csyriiAtAil to In $" ... p t k f il,. nd what is the present condition o' BIiJ M.iNEk IN SI OAK i. i tl v1uc The Tho business of the Hand i growing ((moijfru belo ih ..f M:r Hills brown v Tiduj .if Hind th now .t ti- W,T These are some qu"rtini. h hope to farter than that of any other of " ikat a-' ' rro ar ;MwIro" or letter of West Indie, and faster thkn most parts about $2UM, or J1 " p r funtlv of fixe, mwr in the short 'ri ml in smn ; !a t? tri , and that h thin: of the United States The Porto Elcans j Take a trop-a- l 'and xxhrc, on the clw rondln n d y in 1910 thr xalne !hv tlPr F0 vhi.h this is tlie beginning h,t thf nwn h j t j I know h in jp thi lax.s T something of .'.II these conn-tri- used tlrWy almost altogether of Europa average. if th wealth were divided. a. Wn "jj, I traveled o'er Porto Kico at the They now trade with us. and we have j every family would receive 31 W0 and and )t . .i grt coit of ba o w hdh rurH an I It w t s s time ae took charge, and I went from 88 pei cent of their commerce. Dur- - vou have tbe conditlom as they now A,, thj, Ul , cheap you could buy a g..d ( ,g,,r u tha, , por., tlu there arpis the Paoifle to the Philipnt ing the pest year the foreign trade in- - are in Porto Rie. unU-!d enouarh The chwtnsr t bt rxer UK- d I txeaix pines. and studied the islands trim Lu-os.M man. wman uid ohild In tiv Untd tt ratixe th' ard It to Mindanao, while they vvero still xiO.W'O The Porto Kican bought from owltnpr'y small Further on I Nhall hw Katas wntn i tlanee s ifTlcaent f fur- uied wth nm-If' tui-t- d under military rule. Later on 1 visited the Cntted stales during that time you what th KpIe hav. bt n dtng: in t r If a taffx i ni? for mlliio' uj in ..pv .thont some more than J34.000.OjO worth of Amorican the Samoans, and later still spent roods in establNhinjc tbir a ciat form p rratioTi tug s XGjVlH. Rhd, tiiey-Su-lii 4- Almost Plat tnmb time in Hawaii. 1 know what the work and m i w rth f tht. tnhirri w .u!l : irui u th of thee countries were when wo of their hmnn pn.duce to us As it i th- debt all m t evor there th ; fct'iint H!uy took charge of them. I want to show now. thre are only jix or jight coun- U It s k t t UK jday w onv LtMo .f ejn 'nr, ri h r her ;i are now men are There x what they tries of the world t nbith ho jI1 more i alu i t u il jou v 1 ii n thin 3 per rr t u t Fin this ,s here In Washington who are Just back thanw? 4 to Porta LUco and thee are of t - co'"- - in t t M- ur t Sc rl Jj r i ' in from handling th m, and 'thefSurefLu th United Kingdom, Germany, - n h ff itn Frani, haj iu( hn of insular affairs receive reports every, Beljrtum, Holland and Italy The Porto a .in! lerpe Vi b smLer IviitdUi m tho f ( week aa to the existing conditions. 1 Ricans buy from us more than d : 1! r 12 tntB Rrirwn tin have had access to thia Information, either Runrta Spain, Austria, China, Uricor and iAwtr t,.. v. , ti Thi f !' and the most of H comes hot from the ana! Japan or Turkey. Take out the Arfren- - tbee nr.irea are true. t! t tiih-- t than th.u ' I ile4" whuh tropics. T waa takn R tnje th off t1tine, and they buy more than all South In rtin TTfKIR TAXCS xnlkvt TJIKY PORTO RfOO IX 1911 America. They buy three time as in thn !'' ' these Un have J ' iI-- i tMH it rit a off well are ar' nuiry Mr,ner r,,,le o Ri This letter ia about Porto Rico. That much aa the British East Indie, and jgv iiij.ti with ,.,ym j,P niw When they are value .At th th,.,- 1:lx they. Is s peach of an Island! It is 100 miles a nwnrlc "f abUt nt' . Th4long, 3 miles wide, and Its Soil Is as tat as the garden of Eden. It has a of Africa and a great deal more than j taXffi f f the x At tnkimf island do you ihhtk were "ie m valuai climate like paradise, and the orange, that of the Philippines Moreover, the , - Two Th v per cent" Three unpi -, which many believe was the apple that Business Is steadily growing, and it In cent Five ne of the rndiiwv A r ft por cwt" No, Not 1 .951 was worin so temi td Ere, grows there quite aa creased more than 17,000,000 in 1910 KK.r.f xiKTt cent The treos irer reporiii that only thn v K was a.1., n well. Al the time I was In Porto Rloo, the! 1800 0h i As to the home busings of the counof 1 !Wr oent of however, trie condition of the people try, that is exceedingly prosperous. taxes are hehmdhaml and he expeota fllM l,f"' ' " was peerer that of hell than of heaven. Thirty-tw- o new corporations were or- to cut tlua out in the rei,rt. I Ionc They were maerahly poor. There were ganised last year, and the year before Tlie sunn cvmditioi is showvi kO.OOO of the m. and s Uevkl31 were that there were more than a hundred in the banks At the time we rld ow M so lean that the hone of thntr verte- home corporations In existence, with an hold the most of the tanking was dnH a 'oxv industry for Porto 'll itr allittl ' flo aucar tins, ai.d tru t bra almost sawed through their atom-- a authorised capital of 22,no.Aon, while 1y the Fpenlarits and the Interest them Tib ' It imAuntM to pruetti ally n dh- !t. It was then a popular saying the foreign corporations registered, bad rates ran as high as 8 pwcent TVetay wvt ail ar t wUifttsUly t"-xVif th M ed modo-- n UA t" k inf-- i IDIi' Tlw'v That tt th Trf the people starved an authorized capital of tjcc.ftno.iyo, tljey are comparatively low and good railrowds x out ftio i? Hkt 1 .f f-rl.; n.i bpr d f t fully ,iii of the year. I ,y.n,' 4 to study i men are blind heggnrg eycTiTv hervaud. In. San end. Lnst Thn brink hdvo d ill, numnrw in T1A,: 'If corporaforeign yrar ' ul . rum " ins. pests. Tio Jiisri. the capital, Saturday Mi known tions ware eorganlred, and their capi- ber and the business is now dohe l,y number ,,f the "U has de.rta'.o'l a beggars day, and at that time the Port Americans. Ricans, Hpanienls tal was 11 ,000,0(81 scores of .I'sudonod dine mid tenors came around In single file to ajid Cenadiana. There er nine targe and OP THE THE WEALTH PORTO the merchant each of whom put a banks end therr have sKogether eweh can lie sen. 'vit their tall diiiu.M tin RIOANR. . lot f coins worth of a cent reisiarces of about 18.000.000. . while ' carTJ ! j .n h, d r . from Porto Biro every 'in ini desk The beggars came In one When I was in. Porto Rico the people their deposits amount tk close to Ilf.- - n! ''.L ' I?,?1 sold. !v mi and took ono coin only, depart-;- g were taxed to death. The assessments ir.,i these are the flti'd o!1 000,000. Among th banks are two th large TOBACCO So no of them C,r.WX IXTBNT8 Canadian Uewinif the giver. . n fllJr ,, ,ri,ei. were high end everything under the Institutions wOildh have been and they Today (he beggars have disappeared, sun had to pay. Today the taxes have established since we took over the isA.i enormous devclopnient has taken ,a Mg n -' k m- nr.d the governor roports that there been cut down and the assessment land One ten branch of the Royal place in the toba b of Porto Rico lt!weet anl fu'l f Juice Pineapple l no one Rloo. nA without work. The population are comparatively low. Xev erthelese the Bank of Canada, and another that of t time a gr it ae It we in led grow al ox r o' yo.enn or a little more has Increased value of the property baa enormoualy the Batik of Nova 8ovtIa. The latter (and U amounted stat year to betw tea t gwat bJs thm in the valleys and' t (Special Cnrreiipoiidrnce I) C.-- I From Corporations and Per Cocoanuts and one-ten- th What Our Porto New PeopleOne Thousand Sugar, Garden. andT ieir Sams Best rsicl Th 'Pp K 1 T tv rf-- 'f. , al&s ir irP i i li -- I rt I ' i I i dl ix ! 1 e pr b-- j r ti A rr- - it w ' i 'i tjf n lj fr - ; nu peo-ple- olf-a- titor rt with-lond- .n 1 qtl ia-- 1 j r x--t t t ?r rt it lit! - V ! Ml th. i tt f ii- xv r n - tr.. a to elx r irr..- hj j ;tit -t Tf Rt.d 1 - t -- - ix m ti i.i v o onl t pn k t.in t tr. ta ta (! riHk v br , 'tt. r f ;e dro d ! i rit I t.r m r !, up Th - T- f r i r Sopo r sn n Nj - s t i f . il e n f d tN I r ihhi ii . k , . r. rf h vk 4 I 1 !d hMn hi ! ;n'i t , Y Fmnnaar i'Tj mu h Arnon i 4 i 1 ' !k cr V ef -- i- i i.Ttrar- - j L 1 1 ! six-tent- ur, ' CONSUMPTION OF COPPER PRESSING i" on. sumption of copper has In- rersei to such on extent within the U't fw yean that th different am coiMtantiy adding to their cqa. it; un esttmalcd h near-i- ) refined poung, wjj In tli rmted States this year and indu ly a greater output will he token of In the future. Like every other mlneo, the marketing of copper Is raffl'd on through , agencies, tbeee igenc'es somettmee being controlled by in copper producers and aometimes by indep.ndetu, selUng concerno , The cP-l of the metal extracted by electrical and even then. ptehods from In cane of Impurities, the prtMli t i again refined. Th refining of copper 1 a piocene of purification. In this the other metals which have not been separated pi the previous treatment, are extracted by various meth- - da In th ordinary smelting processes, the temperature of the furnace is high enough to practically eliminate tho volatile metals such ae sulphur, fluorine, zinc, lead, tin. bismuth, arsenic., antimony. U purcha sed from the smel tars and Mluriiqn and selenium. This leaves to5 the refineries for puritVca-,-n tn the copper matte, besides the copper, 'Jnpfod tojhs exception of a smaLlI part troa and sulphur, such metals a gold. 1 t- : - ! ! fr-- Uce, silver, platinum, zinc, lead, nickel, cobalt. manganegc. tin. bismuth, arsenic, antimony, torrurium, and selenium, these latter metals not being completely volatilized while In the furnace. f these inetaJ, which are present as Impurities, th latter five may he considered harmful impurities. This copper which comes to the refineries may be even Hi per oent pure, and yet unfit for commercial use on account of the natr of the Impuritlea, jt is essential to rid the metal of these n elements, so thst acquire the necessary parity to have the proper physical properties for one, such as malleability, ductility, tenadty and electrical conductivity as - paU as ts for-rlg- L-wilt I iovci m.. forms for The cuivert r r"OC is gficrai'.v t mekd ip r pu opper from Into matt' '! th liral treatment also thl converter ar. put convit-blisiv enter the from bars procese, ter ropier. cn llio: from (he elotrial pi ' black copper from refining of ore In blast the sin Hire f ' r from some of the ceinenl wet melhoilH. ai4 Tp copper purchased in Ui- - nurket. This convert r and Impurities pxni'z1" th proem great deal purer leaves the copivf than before. Th mtal la turned out tn bar and i r.sv for tha next treatment. cent about, These ba 'rrv dlesrlved ,ln They crpper. acid ni nreclpUatd in nit exceedingly pure conltloa by means put ini f - m-- id-pe- r i . .lime, and ino .1 erne .llier n'l-- i r rtetuniv Th ol,.tr...l on,i te t i . ,u w ' or it ,i ali.nda't Th!- - e'v(tiuv- - rmr-r- t rile . ere h'l of 1 ' i n hM. " r I rh I r I ri1 epiu! for im-- lh " T.ir.u.-- '' ' ' ii i nl h f the f c c I r,, tlent th t the . or ng TI , vv n bMiiwnd t - wfu hoi nutuIh.n niglt reason n . ! tk- r. n In t f J tn .i- t .i i'mwr I"' cAil.ot th m re t K I r U ft ix ut i ! it m t Ur Bftl.v in jmpn-- - ;Lt M. i f h h I i t t d ' I x ii' A i g j Iron b a r jin. norm nln Mllv rn g t evi ii .y; il Ta t : .ted' ti gt) U''vxg 4 nor - i i r J AUiL.viMt IVV-N- n v t u 'y hmi n! tf f Aftn rlAia , aor!v .". prUi tR it Uf'n H vj rttion Th AuikUm bx' rombimnsr th Itatll.m am! H r.t4- - h tv t a plt lrlert Twining, f - M I the rottinng Indus r,-.nt Wlinn th. Ir SM.UO0.00u will be 'nfiriitj pountifl pifr anmru ut, the (ugg nheim Thrt American Meta! company operat the larg-s- t of the .upper refiner, with ut with lound. per an-HI tha Bwlhacte.rcflncfy. 'acaUJtif .,fthis.H, rut of 3O.0m.(ND pounds ,Thc United pound num. & Minin Rffinin I .".ore plant, be hand', d by the Hull 1no.900(mi about refiucn hftntlL4 n tn company wMI j Gut rt'dO ff. 1 ili.' about o '1" B1 Of calh pdrity U n I' ar TO THEIR CAPACITY REFINERIES . 1 s. h.gh. I.- one-thir- J 2 i one-thir- d r - t f rM ba t t i r t .r m f th f u i r rn ibt j ! J4 l tjon tha tsruH bonds .sjiHtM and they mor b- T te fir-- t t th t c nvijGr t th. m r r three-fourth- 1 aa4 xxatr t Ifi I n-- 4 I yar. soma r TI rrop ra-- ti vir' and when t fadn ami mil- - r n ier be-- Uiiir Lahti k rt lnrh. 42 I ' ' ia pi MX of it L now ; M t.o ram nd fa! t r y t rvdnd tri n t In n fr d t n ' n r i 1 rwmi to tb r rth thra th nt .r- rh ir t tn - .t It t ..t t g t ? 1 i;r!tW '1in TT p b r it t tr: of tha Of pat " rk. whih haa dbiral wealth of nihfn r tk .('" ml "L'ine era as IN lihd thym!i9 to g M i ripn .'i dr p off 'j t n T i bea r h T ! - r V it ri n al'ii.-- it bog. n ti it- - TK T Ht a r At tb irg i. K il n !'' gr nn n rv f .V 4 mine of om- n land Thi n jlh t.. w h Fi th oil Is 9 rt I htrL ur diffhpit h!h has In ; fii w ar .i v ' and x,r ?nd th ! i - t fHn r tr'w r. i if will probably in ,rl ? nl r i v'-.- k f h' - 1 .! . r- f xr 11 tblwhd f.i-- v w vx4" I ! i TUk .. ah r . 1 th nt! r t hi nds f t r tr. i p,-- a;u. t t h at hip th'r be d ? . 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