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About The Alliance herald. (Alliance, Box Butte County, Neb.) 1902-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1916)
Big Banana Plantation i hi UVtV i jtLy rely on k Commission Company RATED) Can Show Anyone mers Talk About Them Not Us ia Look Over Our Force liiAsf gfv lOX W iSwSlCRCIAW, T TRA5UF:f i 7 LJESM HtS itTTt ( KNOWN AS "CHUCK" COX. COMft IN AMI WATCH Mt O0ATE -IXU GOAB-ANTee good WEIGHTS J.R.MPHAL V400 3AVC9" ILL. HP I 0 YOU 6CT DULLY 1 JIM DCMAHUE CMTLfc tMir fete, 'J IMl CN 'EM ALL, ART" I K-W.V INTR 5T.Vr ttRVlCt? MAS qot all Their rr-i m -tr t v mm (nmtit of An lMiMirtrtiit Trop)l In-lu-lr In Which Norlliorn Men Are liitert'MtMl FIiuiik Inlly Not many pcopln In Nobrnska and otlior northern ntatcn, hrn thoy inilKe a inirrhaop of bananan or eat (he Micculent (rnit. think much about where It Is mown. They would prob ably be very much urprlHe! to learn the magnitude of the buRlneaa of growing bananas In a tropical coun try and shipping them to the Tem perate Zone of the north. We are Indebted to It. L. Uilchrlat, of tli- nrni of Harrow & Uilchrlst, Omaha, who are Nebraska agents for the Associated Tropical l'lantation Co., having headquarters in Kansas City, for Information regarding the plantations of this company in south ern Mexico. They have two plantations on the inlhrnus, directly south of (ialveston. Texas, 600 miles. One of these plan tations contains 24.000 acres, and the other 1.600 acres. They are on the tlspanapa river, and have twenty miles of river front with high banks, making but very little expense neces sary In the construction of docks lor the loading of the bout which carries the bananas from the plantations to Galveston, from which place they are distributed by railroad trains. Soon after the breaking out of the Kuropean war, the problem of secur ing transportation became a very ser ious one, and the only way It could be solved by the association was by purchasing a boat, which they now have in constant use, plying between the plantations and (Jalveston. This boat makes the round trip every eight dajia, the year round, and here is wjieie our readers will receive a surprise as to the Quantity of banan as murkeied in a year by one com pany. It should be borne in mind lit in bananas are ripened for market at all times of the year, and the ba nana harvest is continuous the year round, altho at some bchhoiis the fruit Is larger than at other times. It takes about 20,000 bunches of bana nas to make a boat load, the bout load making two train loads of from eighteen to twenty-five cars. If any of our readers' curiosity has been sulliclently excited to cause them to want to make a computation as to the number of bananas furnish ed by the plantations of the Associat ed Tropical Plantation Co. and car ried by their boat across the Gulf of Mexico In a year, they can do so by counting the number of bananas In a bunch at a store, multiplying that by 20,000, the number of bunches lit one boat load, and multiplying that product by 4 5, which is about the number of trips the boat makes In a year. A number of Nebraska people own stock in the Associated Tropical l'lantation Co., among whom are the real estate men above mentioned, and FarrtrMarcy Co., live stock com mission merchants of South Omaha, whose advertisement appears In this paper. It Is Interesting to note here that 11. L. Gilchrist, who has been en gaged quite successfully In the real estate business in Omaha for some years past, was a pioneer of north western Nebraska, altho his resi dence in this part of the state was of short duration. In 1885, ' Mr. Gil christ entered a homestead claim about a mile from where Alliance now stands. There were but very few people In this country at that lime, no railroad and no towns. He tells an interesting story about dig King a well in which he came near being buried alive by the walls cav ing In, and saved himself only by the good fortune of having a rope sus pended into the well and securely fastened above. He held his claim only a short while, and relinquished it to leave for other parts. The Alliance Herald and Tho Ne braska Stockman the two leading newspapers of western Nebraska. SUDSCKIBE NOW. If w take tb total ineom or nMthe work or the women. I 'Z t United Statea from all industrial The meetings closed Sunday even- church, filled the place of toastmas- hOCal diamond between the Alliance