Show in llon dura british honduras ia a crown colony and of its population tharo are about whites mainly english there ie an american colony of about 20 people at toledo engaged in sugar growing and rum making they are mainly from kentucky and it is a prosperous colony the country ia healthful for a tropical country and there has not been a case of yellow fever in several years the principal product 1 mahogany and it will be years before the forests are exhausted great quantities of logwood are also shipped to europe we ship only bananas and plantains to the united states shipping last year bunches of bananas to new orleans the great problem with is labor and we import natives from the west indies we need immigration and sir alfred maloney the governor is a very progressive gres sive man and is doing much to bring us to the notice of the world we have no railroads beyond a tramway drawn by mules penetrating the plantations for about six miles there is not a telegraph instrument or line in the province and only a short telephone line between government buildings wo have no money of our own but use the silver of eur rounding republics which is so depreciated precia ted that 5 in american money is equal to of the money in use interview in washington star |