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Show DESERET EVENING NEWS. nm Am LuurvT. SATURDAY THREE 1WKT JAXIWKV 1912 SALT LAKE CITY PORTO RICO TEX PAGES WHAT UNCLE SAM IS DOING WITH THE WHITE MANS 1912 Tlntusiapha New PART OF A BIG RECLAMATION PROJECT IN PORTO RICO. UTAH n fnr Tha O. Carpenter. nwkwyrwlr tajt-- by BURDEN. MODERN SUGAR MILLS IN OPERATION. to uir l.lOtt.wO. and tho whole Porto Rico than In Brail, but tha cofalong the foothilla of th mountain i What i full of prosportty and progress They re not carefully cultivated and fee la far better, Mid It ought to brtna as to hi The cities are growing San Juan has The pineapple ex- almost double tho prica of BrulllUl grow almost wild. From Beggary to Big Business What Our Porto Rico Trade Means New WASHINGTON, dniiig man's row 48,000, Ponce, So,'. Mwvaguei, vih.t- have increased 1160,000 dur- coffee. portation 1 burd. n ltimii and Cuguas, li ikio understand that tha Porto Rican ing the last year. Corporations and Trusts The Wealth of the People One Thousand H. .'mul'li ri il it at the u"- -' ,f our the iisvjortty of the ob' stilt In. out are about orgwnlxtng a campaign to ha also huslueaa grape-nul- l The Dollars Per Family New Banks and neir Deposits Money in Sugar, v.r vv,t!i SMin an.l In' ha mm born in the country, le- -s than on tenth "f Introduce thla coffee Into tha United e enormously, and It will . . th m being m cities "f lo 666 or o'er if it f r mot o titan 13 yeari. States. They have already established of that Florida with and seriously Coffee Uncle and Cocoanuts Best Fruit Garden. Wh it li.. v t u. r ,i!li no nmpll'h.xl III Tiie density of population I now 323 Cuba. The freight rates from Iorto office In New York, and will probably I trio Guam and tho per square mile, which is an ln re.tse I'.f ... II n. a ltlcu to New York are said to be lower have exhibition rooms in our different f IT si no' 199. lliilipptm than from Florida to New Yoik. and cities. ll've and atx million dollars. At the tlmu now ill need at II.!!. wws organize, t In I Jld It in. reaaed Have tht t. lands bom ie-- t torod BUSINESS IS BOOMING thy t ubun grapefruit liaa to jiay a duty, RECLAMATION IN PORTO RICO. e we took hold of the island the tobacco COu.txsi. and this is estimated to tie HKJ M IX KY IN Sl 'ilR. And what - tho pi event coiid'tf.n while the Porto Hit an comes in free more la What for Porto Rico ss is husitw of the island The doing value ,.,1.1 grow ilig tli below actual In (t,m our liltl. brown open sheds made of y All tho big industries of the l.sUml wasured Moreover, the Porto Ulcan grapefruit than anything rise la tha wonderful' I , u,.,nh of the is now I saw these sheds r.Miftd with h This.' art .in" t u ,.qo to fasti r than tlrnt of any other of the that, are growing sugar has ale ays aud Is said to he far better than any other, system of new road, which has bean ru - ..f etirr of W I -- t Indies, and faster than most jvarta about or il In tin p r family of fit. hector than a in else, iind that ia lining the hills, and in ome plaeov and It stands .shipping well. built o that nearly every part of tha of the I niled states The Iorto Ricans j Take a tiopt.-a- l isan.l where, on the the condition thing tlm bt ginning h tkux today in lain the value they were so steep that the men had to eouotrv has easy access to the sea. Of MONET MADE IN fOCUANVTS I hn someth, ng of ; t .. se court- - limed to hu almowt altogether of Euroe, average, if the wealth Kero d'vided. lean .is leaves tho was The more t up the 'rop than 23,6o6 mul. they hung A Nil t'OFFEE this I will write In another letter. now trade with u.--. and we have every family would re.-- . Ivo H.hi J. and t was It tors. I crawled., i. r Porto lth'o at .bacio I was so badly cured, nd t repress mo shout i er sent of Another big public works which hag x I I went from A nowr tfieir sent u deal of an a Is commerce. of (xMidtltons the turns w 11 made great money they ier time .hurge. bring the export At that lime the island cheap you could buy a good cigar for to do with the agricultural wealth of In e.jeoa nuts Thousands of tree ar year the foreign trade m- - i are m Port., lino. there n.fris the I.ie.n. to the lhiip- - mg lh.. y hew mg tobacco cent a The to used to six enough giv ild pounds stm by the Island is the reclaiming of some-ttdnise.l r. w r i nt or mor. than flu.- the publu ilel.l is pints, and Millie I tin islands lnm I.J Nnerth. man. unmiit and child In tJe I'nited the native was old by the yard It hong (danted ul.mg the oasts 11ml like $15,6011 acre of land. Thla The Porto llkan- - bought from i medliigly small Further on t shall show State, with a l.ilatue suffl. lent to fur- was tuied with l'um ar. molasses and they bung in on the average a dollar ron to Mindanao, while they tors yti.l .usi.uuo m heme relate to tin- - southeastern end r tree I" n . man In I One i visited every th. I'mted States during that time you what tla year makes under mllitat y rule. Later nish a taffy pulling f..r millions. twist. si up In rope- - about im f. nple have been doing long Jjo.ihh) a ur out of his eoeoanut of Ihirtn Rico, where the soli la the Samoans, and later still siamt some mor. than $j4 W, mm worth of A t oruan liny rosing t'n Ir roads. In establishing A half The sugar plant items form a great and as thlk as your finger. rl h, hut where, owing to tha .ou lord time In Hawaii 1 know what the pe-goods, and they sold almost that mu. h schools ami in other publh works N..t-o- t necklace runmt.K . leal around the con' s worth of this tobacco would equal mountains at the north, them high Is Tills husiiifsx The nufX we are were when easy. countries toof home n these their t debt pies j.mdtne to its. As it t jwuh't.aul.i g all tint the ' Is The tnt. ro.r is every where tht- - amount contukud in the ordinary Uul out on the a scanty' rainfall. The moist winds giotind and after a took charge of them. I wait to show nne, then; are ..lily six or eight nm- - day i ..n'.v a III" .hit $l omii It Is but thy t e is tt i.. 'It ofl pocket plug of an Aim nran iheyy.r ot.talnotM, h short time ta. sends down a little trike the .old mountain and tho rain There are tn.-y ou w ha they a i e now tries of the w orld to vv hit h v .. s. II more le- - tl,a n I., r cer t tile a. mat clue U.nluids .i.ne 1'. ...ist, .m l this is Shire then tol.u. . hu gone up ard prout troin one of the little ey s at It drops on the northern slope. here In Washington who are just back tp ,n w ,, ,j ail cnvred port,, i; 0, dt t.Me ;,re of t! prortv. and It repr-nt- s . "I'laMc , a help rai-- e it Out the plunta- - s.'lcmee has tome m The average rainfall I only 4$ Inches, n.l As the '.nne time a runt shoot tho bureau tl.e I'nited Kingdom, Uermany. Frunce, ind.-ldfrom handling thm, and r h id of .m thin $1 dnes j, dej arttnent of aprt ulture has intro.r,. .pi,, i,,j tK,ns A!,. ..o from 26 to 0 Inches per year. rj, out and ranging down Into the goes ground and of Insular affairs roceives reports every Relgium, Holland and Italy. The Porto lnd btecbie- - - r a,, ; tn,. our ave-jiln,j, perpetual summer duced the methods of c'ulia, and :,ow a within a few months the sprout grows The land I excellent sugar land and I Ricans buy from us more than docs head, ttm I'nited Stat.-- over I week as to the existing conditions. p,, . , lit cr,nk ;,,r 1; nionths of the great d. il Is grown under lent of to the height of your waist The root will te worth. If It has plenty of water baf had access to this information. either Russia, Spain, Austria, China, True figures do not lie, and .an told it and SAeot-- r, ehc cm .til , a..i This is of loin tu.v. he hr..kn ofT. and the nut shoot $200 per acre. A it la now soma l.ug..r laliy and the mot of it comes hot from the Jurxtn or Turkey. Takeout the Argen- - 'these l.ooi-iai- ii than that figures are true. the tobu. cos which ore usi ,1 for . Igar pl.ihti d where the tree i to stand. It of tt I planted to sugar. Thla crop retropics. tine, and they buy more than all South Sms- - tho tariff w is taken off. In w r pere moisture and whan In eome of the valleys is set out so as to TIIET PAT TI E TR TAXTd give almost 2)0 quires abundant PORTO PJCO IN lr12. America. They buy three times as j imiwal are so many tents that at a clL- - trees to the ar re. and it begins to biar the rulnfnll Is scanty it fails and mll-l'o-n M rover when jieople are well o!f l'"l. th.we lands have inthte That much as the Rrltiah East Indies, and thev pay thei" tax.- - XVhcwt thee are '"I1' At the tutu I w.i In Porto Rt.o tap, they seem to le filled with snow at five years The nuts ripen all the of dollars are lost. This letter Is about Porto Uu-o- . is a peach of an In order to Irrigate this section tha It is 100 miles far more than cither Japan or China. not doing well they -t them run At th.w could be L, tight for lift p. r acre wl.tch uphold a tiriwork of wire about vear round They drop off themselves $20n an acre, and 10 muc h of the They are nnv lung, 36 miles wide, and its soul is as Their trade Is worth about twite that the close of this year f.ri from the ground The people and the men have only to go daily from insular government has Issued bond av big dlvltlends on uo.--t of them fat as tho gtirden of Iklon. rt has a of Africa and a great deal more than taxes of that island d. you think wore arc using fertilize and they are taking tree to tree to pick them up There Is to the amount of ts.nno,000 and they f climate like paradise, and the orange, that of the Philippines. Moreover, the ur.;n:d' Tm per of seeds Tiny .. steady market for them, 11 great will probably need $1,600,600 more bear elicit ,1 iilj,tion ff Three care as to the .V- - to the gro.vlli tin1 the fore the work Is completed. Tha first indus'ty, .. which many- - believe was tho apple that business Is steadily growing, and tt N r i Not l cent. Phyc p.-- cert' mote for their work In the fae. quantity being dried for copra was worth cn v pay more than J7.000.ooo jn icqi). $.1,006,000 worth of bonds have been sold so tempted Eve, grows there quito as are far lower than, Another big erf p of the future Is cent! The treves ir r report, thit onlv sugar exp irtevl in 1!)S1 hut wages tories, Htn H was a'.ioat Jld,. and a large part of the money has As to the home business of the counw as f irm.-rlf. well. At the time I was in Porto RJeo, of This one and make of tha and iwr cent of th $7.(1110,1100 In chief ngars they u, mre-however, the condition of t!u people try, that is exceedingly of the island, hut in 189 there gone Into the work The project la now prosperous. taxes are behmdh.uwi and he exje.vts non (Mtu. and it hu increased steadily cigarettrs at a very high price fr m ear to ' far new corporations wore orwas nearer that of hell than of heaven. Thirty-tw- o to cm this out in the Text "'Tlhl.. hurricane which up- - under the charge of Chief Englnaar SAM S BEST FIUTT riAK- The Porto Its an sugar plantations r.K.inl ia shown The same healthy Since then new Beardsley, the man who did BO much They were mlserahly poor. Thera were ganized last year, and the year before plantations. DEN ware that there were more than a hundred in the bamke At the time we 81)0,000 of them, and threo-fourtoffer trees hav - been set out and the for Irrigation in the Philippine. Among took are now as well managed .is ntiy' of of y over Another tiling that is paying well Is l.i- -t so lean that the bones of their verte- home corporations in existence, with an bold tho most of the banking was lone their krtvl the oar were over $i 606.HOO the dam he is constructing is ona on to and allied the This Is a new industry for Porto export' are them trust, stom-auiaugur Ir. v all,. thfdr brae almost sawed through authorised capital of $22,000,0011, while fry tha Spaniards and the interest wlmh is about five times j the Patlila river, whirh is 1J2 feet iwhut tt. v were In 1901. high and 1,000 feet long Another i It vv a then a popular saying the foreign corporations registered had rates ran as high as 18 peg cent T. lay and all are scientifically operated mills. d The best coffee is raised in the high-- I the Ca rite dam, which la 106 feet high, of tho people st.arvod an authorized capital of JJOO.ooo.OOO, that they are comparatively low and g.roi TTiev have Introdunel modern to bring out the am un i d tnd- - at an elevation of from 1,500 to and a third, the Buayobal dam, which loans are made at 7 and 8 per cent railoari fur fully of the year. I w ith a paid in capital of over tl.V. The banks have increased in num' 000 feet above the sta. The elim.ite Is (will he 112 feet high and over 2,006 found beggt.rs everywhere, and in San Last year 12 new foreign orpom-Juaber and the business is now' done !v o hot that the coffee has to be grown 'cot lung There are also several great the capital, Saturday was known tions were eorganized, and their capiand tunnels, and altogether Porto as beggars day, and at that time the under Americans, shade, and it Is growing the Ricans, as ju.noo.ooo. Rpanwr.fs and Canadians. There are nine large hade tres that lias . aused the delay irrigation works which will compare beggars came around in single file to favorably with some In our arid lands In the production of th plantations banks, and t hev have altogether cash the merchants, each of whom put a of a cent Another dlfTh ultv is the rains, winch of the west Engineer Beardsley finds lot of coins worth hi men cannot do a much work - are so ... ... ,.... on Ms desk . .. The beggars came in one , ., frequent that the coffee i liable hut ml an . 6 aJ those he has employed in the United v one and took one coin only, d opart wet when (Irving The trays upon 1; months, and these are the fine- -t sold (0 TOBAOfi Ol.owx IX TENTS Pom- - of them nrejuimj, ar. laid have ti be -- t ite. and he attribute their lack of ln r,ur markets the ,ug bleasing the giver. to lack of rood food. He ia s, s and they are A.t atrbf d, and tak n in wht never it u.nv development has taken as t.ig as pe'k Today the beggars have di --appeared, the men three meals a dy giving land Is One of of a in full It ut tohic.o the Porto sweet branch and Rico be ta.mJttiee the at of down cut been and Thiv governor the Royal place canno' hft .0 t'e P'neanples reports that there fre. of barge, believing that he will - no one without work. The population are comparatively low. Nevertheless the Bank of Canada. a,nd another chat of Is 34 time a gr tt as it was in lsd grow all over porto Rico, (tile s es mgia on account of the deyv. For this be repaid in thi additional work done. FRANK G. CARPENTER. of MiO.OhO or a little more has lm reaped value of the property has enormously the Bank of Nova p.tla The latter and It amounted last year to betw eet gre at beds of them ln the valleys and reason it costs more to raise coffee m atm--phe- l . T com-iwt- Sams i 1 $75.-Th- I . ,mir $- -. I ev tk Dui-jyo- ist ; I.' j ng e- , is-l- -- , i -- 1 .'i ' p-- wh-r-- . . ee as . s 1 i 1 ' sel.-ctlo- ee-i- 1 cof-vvi- th 1 s s ( ' rei-or- , M.-n- s. j one-thir- one-thir- 0. c n, , -- j -- -- j le-a- mea-ure- enor-nou- y . - ' CONSUMPTION OF COPPER PRESSING The consum'd. ou of copper has Increased to su h an extent within the few years that the different refineries are constantly adding to their him. tty until It is estimated that nearly fl,506,060 000 pound will be refined .1 th, United States this year and robubiy a great-- r output will be taiven are of ln the future. Like every other i treine&s, the marketing of copper these arrled on through agencies, jgenclee sometimes being controlled by tne copper produeers and sometimes selling concerns. The copper is purchased from the smelters and hipped to the refineries for purification, w ith the exception of a small part tat , 1 -- ti 'll 'v.-r. p'attnjn. zin , lead, nickel, co- -' aren!.-Rit. riangai.- - tin. ln case of impurities, aii'hiioiiy. terrarium, and selenium, not being com th"'e isu r again refined. The refining of copper is a process pletely v.dat Z I while in the furnace m ti.'. v nieft are present as of purification In this pr'Kess, the 'ff th-- -. other metals which have not been sep- .mpuriltfs, the ia-- r five may be arated in the previous treatment, are nirtiiiu, .mi uril.eo Th.- - copextracted by various meth d. In the per vvhi.-- rorrie to th refineries may ordinary smelting processes, the tem- he ev. n 99 5 per cent pure, and yet perature of the furnace is high enough unfit for commercial use 0n account of to practically eliminate the volatile the na'ure of the Impurities, it Is metals such as sulphur, fluorine, j.nc, essential to rid the metal of these forlead, tin, buunuth, arsenic, antimony. eign elements -- that it will acquire tellurium and selenium. This leaves the necessary purity to have the pr.per for use, such as ln the copper matte, besides the copper, physical properties ductility, tena, ity and malleability, iron and tulphur, such metals as gold, electrical conductivity a wed aa be 'it the metal extra. rue'hoJs from c,J by ' , aril even tVn, the preiuri i . i ! TO THEIR CAPACITY REFINERIES irk.-.rms f.r Tho convert r irocess is genet ally I p. r d t. n aKn.a 'Pier f...in tiria. treatment Into f..t th miitt n . 1. r this convert-- r are aio-r put mbars from the t.w. process, blister copper, coth ties from the electrical black from copia-refilling of ipei. the sin, P mg "f v.de ore m blast fmO! 'tr- ..f tie fr.- -.t wet method-- , and s'rap rnppr f Th- - on-uv of a cui rent of are left behind in th- - vb p I 1. Titles , of sinne.s and are , on. ritr.it, 'd rla-uan I In order t have the gol 56 into Th pu.'i'y of .alh.de silver values copfSr d. pends up.i.t the purity of the elect rod's Th.s ir.iee-- s .d "'fining car. only !e connuc.-- l ercnontuaily with upon a very larg ' scale abundant capital and ta.v umi.-iu- l of account the concentration for 1 ,n '1. market This convrt.r This the refining Indus ry. and the oxidizes impurities process AVhon their present plans are carried haves the copper a great deal purer out, the Guggenheim Interests will be than before. . The metal ln turned out the largest of the copper refiners, with ready for the next treat, a In bars of 48i,006,ss) pounds per ancapiaclty ment Of this. 2s O06.SOO pounds will num, These bars carry about Jo per cent Is handled by the Baltimore plant, They ate dissriv-- d In pounds will he handled by the c pper and an.l precipitated in an Tacoma smelter and refinery and th condition by means Ptfth Amboy refinery ha a capacity exceedingly pure (in u 11 t 1 i, - 1 1 - 1 far-ti,.- pur-l,a- a-- j-- it iijipIs per annum. This tod of a few companies These companies market the copper Amerman Smelting & The United company, a Guggenheim cor-- ( through m lhng agencies. Metals Pelli.g company handles the The Amalgamate 1 Copper Interest copier from the Raritan and Boston A The Raritan plant by combining th- - capacities of the Montana plants Raritaa and Boston & Montana refln-- . handles the copper from the Miami. 8tid South Utah Columbia nos h.iV. a y.arly total of 456,066. f0 Britl'h sell. But this lontpared with the - future mines which it does notother pound', us POO f 60 copper retotal Of tel in.uu.js by ill- Gug- tonipany sens ail tne fined by the International Smelting A genheim refill, rics which own the The Laurel Hill refinery, owned try Refining company, Tile American Metal company the Nichals Copper company, has been plant Nichols com-- 1 the SSS.oM.ooO the product of pounds per annum. sells refining Phelps, The Ameri.an Metal company operates pany and Balbach refinery. the Balbacb refinery with a yearly out-- I Dodge & Co. of the big selling The United agencies Is the only one that does ut of $0,066,000 pounds. States Smelting. Refining Mining not operate a refinery, purchasing for refines about 180,000.000 the most part from the Nichols comcompany L. Vogelstein A Co. sell the pounds of copper per year, thus mak- pany. ing 'the refining business in the con-- copper for the United States people. rij Kc unit ihsi fIP fining . v ii.-- by th. |