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"EVERY COCOANUT TREE BRINGS A DOLLAR A YEAR.'
MAKING SUGAR IN LUZON -NOTICE BASKET V.'ORK TOl' OE SMOKESTACK.
. m ,.iu.i kii... r Two iiit'ii wore iilowins hirvi-sted us 1 have described and the rice
HVpyrlKh,, 19U2. by Frank G. Carpenter ) -ay. .hat hi. wcod cutter, now owe b P'""''"; Ja , th,.m ,allle H lUr,sUt,a. After this the hull, have to be
-lASHINttUKN. Apr" iu- ii,v - -- - crowd of women and Kirls dropping the pounded from me staiK. m uioriars, so iuai
AI CrrifHpmidfiico of The Bee.)- It back. g(il, wa(j a ,lule Baudyi but It altogether ever grain costs much work.
I uiti...i iiiu rutiirn from Aala I have . ... ... . i t .v. in raiainir on thn Khnrp. thA firt
" . Money in minra. wng aa black as your ooois auu vei iuu. .
vi .1 nmnv rcaueBts lor spe- . ... . !,,, .i. omn imm tn thn tenant. In the 8 cond tne
rec.-ivr.. . Bhould like to see our geological ur- The cane was cut Into pieces about Bix crop buib - " V , f , "
clal information about th. I hlllp- I B louw ii different ln,ho8 iorjg and laid In the furrows, so tenant gets half and In the third only one-
pine Hand.. Mort. f 'h.;m are from youns vey send o ut p o.peotoM a inch, long M ig n, du,dl (1 , xh
men who wtsti to try ineir " f-" reat mlneral wealth. There are f the flt.id to the other. The women are snoai. tne nun.ug aim ii aiu8 oe.uB
a few are from .mall capita Ista w.th money land ha. yeat m lner.1 uer of the n tQ tne amount extra. The hulling Is done by women in
to invest. It seem, to me the time 1. ripe deposit, or ron . p rocelving about 10 cents mortar., and the threshing Is at home In-
for such men. Until now there ha. been and gold. In norin it. y of flt (htj mill8 The puor 0en haV(,
little chance to go about from place to copper ' role8 lhe rhillpplne. and The're are many plantations in the valley to borrow to put in their crops. They pay
place without .-Idler., but the Island, are Mage 11 n lerea v Pagupan. The crop grow, an intereSt rate in kind of as muca as 100
gradually settling down, and within a year "'' WeU In other parts of Luzon and In all the per cent. A man will loan his money
projector, should be able to travel any- today. There ar a P , , waB ' there no doubt but on con. deration cf so many arobas of rice
h.-re. Within the last month a big .yn- si lver " loountaln whlch exl.U not that p,an,alons would thrive in Mindanao to be dc ivered at harves time , , ko
dl. ate has been formed to develop Mln- told of " " m one of our army offl. arcnlpelag0. to the field, and get h . interest; th s Is
danao. The syndicate Is compoacu ... mi.- deecrlbed to me a ...
Ilonalre. living at New York and Sun Fran- cer.. a civ 1 ei gin eer. ru,ea vll.le Ilk- l-n.U.
rlsco. and It. Plan I. to colonize the island IdJtp'f 0f the city limit.. Rice 1. the wheat of the rhillpplne.. It
and open It up to .ettietneni. n hub " making a topographical sur- Is the food of tne people, mm i j neie is cue luvesiiu. ui iu ,ue ru iivi.m
authorized capital of IjUU.uuu, wnn me p..- - gtr, of country plantations everywhere, weverine.ms m u.ai requires uui nine uaru um. m,8 m
slblllty of Increasing It Indefinitely. wnen ,, of hat he thought wan Usland. are often short of rice, and import raising cocoanuts. The cocoa palm grows
Mindanao Is one of the least developed filled wun '"'" " , u twQ ,umps u t0 the amount of hundred, of thousands all the islands, but some place. better
of our island.. It t. a. big a. the .tale of P'""; "! " !0 0e of ,he warship md of dollar.. than others. On the island of Jolj ,hero
Ohio, and its soil 1. a. rich a. that of Java, and toon in'1 ran (r )m tw ,ve In Java tne mountain, are terraced and are magnificent cocoanuts, and on Mluda-
It will raise coffee, cinchona and rubber had them M8''e"B ' ,0 ,he ton He rU.e growg far up their slopes, the water rao there are millions of fine trees. The
and excellent cattle. I aw flue stock at to 'ere kicked from a strip being led from one field to another by Irrl- trees are planted In regular order and after
Zamboanga and about Cottabato. Near bay. the w v n1cl ong ,on w0,k8 In the Philippine, the most seven jears each yield about a score of
Ihivao. in the eastern end of the island. I fib,,ut1,1Dr" .h he had staked out claim, of the rice lands are In the valleys, and large nuts every mouth. The nuts are al-
vlslted enormous hemp plantations, and In "e tow me 1 f . da u n and that they are worked after rude methods. The lowed to drop of th.mselvts. They arj
the west .aw banana, and coffee luxuriantly tor blmel1. ' ted (0 ra 80 caplial and farming is largely done on the shares, and then picked up, husked aud the meat taken
giowing. The country Is Busceptiuie oi " ,T- ' if he i. correct, that for this reason you see nunareus in me oui uuu ui ieu. utr u.,.u8 iue UBuUi
great agricultural development. The most develop th e proj t r y. planting time all working to- meat is known aa copra, and U ready f, r
of It is covered with forest, of the finest region may turn out i o u a Men, women and children come shipment to Europe or the United States,
hard woods, and it is so watered that the "ar to Mercur. sou the vlllagllg to teDd the little rice About 50,000 ton. of this stuff were 6ent
timber can be easily floated down to the 1 here are ' B ng about the fllld8 they have engaged to work. No one abroad iu 1S-J7, and the probability is that
conat. After the lands are cleared they danao I B" " B ,ay ,n western live, on his fields, and the farmers, as a the shipments will shortly be many times
will make good sugar plantations. We ! of wheat cm r n g y (n (he vlageB At thl8 amount. The planter, figure that
have a government farm at Zamboanga iMton. and th. re , ,,,. Thl.rc reaping time you will see the same gangs every cocoanut tree should yield a net profit
where sugar Is grown, which na. at lime. -- Callfornlans aud Colorado at work, and at tne close oi me uay me v. ,t - -" ."s
b.ought in a. much a. $20,000 per year to are a number l ca , Mlndanao. roada are filled with women and men. each number of tree, on a small area a good
til .1 II WHO are nOW lll,,C,l" 1 . ... . . w T W .. ...www. .mi I n .nlnllnn ina.ng a furliina I
ih. . claim to have mad. carrying home nil snare oi me ur.i. -
and some of th.se claim 10 ia man usually has the larger load, and If he know of some men who have plantations of
"TV,, - .h. ereater fortunes can ba 1. thrifty he may have a half dozen .heaves 20,000 trees or more, and who are rich from
I belleye that great or bunillo, of unlhreihed rice, each about cocoanuts.
ber lauds. The.e b.long to the governmen.. ma.te oui -""--"; . ,he SandwlcB a foot In diameter. "av 6Pok ot money in
for It practically control, the fore.ts if lands. During my si ay i nirvpat gl,em,8 nre lnU.resting. The hemp. This Is the most wonderful crop of
the Philippines. It has. It is esiiiiimc... ,.UUu. operated with rice grow. Just like wheat, but It is not cut me rnu pi-iuis. nnngs 10 me islands
about 60.000,000 acre, of virgin timber, in- .ugar estate.. iney are i Mng wltn a rt.appr and mower, or even with a about 18,000,000 every year, and it forms
eluding tree, from 100 to 200 feet high and enormous capital ana ne The crkdle or a ilcUie, It is clipped off. .talk by the money crop, of some of the largest of
over four feet In d ameter. In Manila I hundreds of tnousam ol " ;ed an(, gialk wl(h a lme knlfei which Is held in the Philippine states. There is an enor-
frequeutly saw tables whose top. ere land Is fertilized ana ,n"u 7 . ' e the paIm ol ,he hand. Tht harvester takes moua profit in the businesa; but, neverthe-
. . ...... ... i,Miiniia niih ihese methods the pianianoiia v n,. .f. ii,i....i1,i ho-,.,
maue or a single ounru u. -- ..- ianda of the l'hlllp- a stalk or rice Deiweeu ma .iuBc. u ". auu.
ir.ahog.iny which measuied four and five profitable. Tae B,'f, '," hev are man- ,,reses It against the knife, thus cutting crops could easily ba quadrupled. The
feet in diameter. The fi on of the prlu- pirn are also prontame. D"' lu 7 vlglttfd u off. He then cuts another stalk the same lands which are under cultivation sell for
clpal buildings were of this same wood laid aged In the most waateiui n ' fr way and tDU11 go,, on untu his sheaf high prices, but near then, are other landi
In boards a foot and a half wUe and twenty one mill near 1 orac. ine rhi The rk,o gr()wg tQ ,olcn can be gotten (or a soug wnU.h need
ir more feet long. I asked where the of which was a great al,r (n about he hi(.bl of our wheat, but it Is only a little work to make them available,
lumber yards were aud was shown one on feet in diameter. waU?r cut oft half way up In order that the This Is especially so of Mindanao,
the banks of the Tasig r ver. It was oper- from the fields in ruue iar gheaves may be shorter, and so that It may I believe that the methods of cultivation
atid by Chinese, the logs being tawed Into buttaloe. and water Kr,,u ket(lei whlcb be the more easily stored and threshed, and cleaning the hemp might be much im
boaida by hand with cro.-scut saws. I un- was boiled In great iron The tnrtghlng lg done by puli ng the heals proved. At prtseut a large proportb n or
der.tand that there are but two steam taw rested on a furnace or nue drained of the rice through Baw-toothed knives and the crop goes to waste, everything con
mills in all the Islands and that so far ground. The molasses a nuale , by treading it out w.th the fe. t I .aw nected with It being done by hand. The
the forests are practically untouched. Some off and the sugar allowea ts hort, gome threshing grounds where men were Plant Is much like the banana, and the
timber has been cut out by Iudians und -r clay Jar.. Tnere as " nroflts were Jumping up and down ui ou the straw to hemp comes from the fiber of the leavt
the .uperint.ndence of Gerinaus aud Eng- an.l notwithstanding tnts m v M ttreBh out (he grain and others wher. they and stalks. It is dried on the ground and
lish and shipped to Hong Kong and Shang- great. With modern macnine j j W( driViug water buffaloes about over it. shipped in bales to Manila. A good hemp
hal but as a rule the SpanlBh government be Increased at least rour-io (g Jn ,anay there are threBhlug platforms crop is Just as salable as so much wheat or
objected to such exploitation aud levl 4 I met a planter nea r r hgn above the ground, upon wh ch the men rice. There Is a regular demand for it and
taxes which prevented it. making $25,000 worm 7 'd a and women tread out the rice, and where it has its fixed prices In the markets of
One cf the troubles the timber merchants lie made $8,000 out oi nis rue v. .irong winds enable them the more Europe and the United States. Some of the
complain of is that they cannot get th. hi. farming Is done on he sc to q( th- chaf, esUte. are now paying 35 per cent.
Indians to work without advanclug about borer, receiving hair. ' e l'u " d There are few gra ns which require so ll.llru.d. ...d Klrrirl.-iir.
a year', wages and thl. capital is sunk in found this was he mjsi way . a . " BUch labor as rice. Every stalk has to be There will be many railroads built in the
the business. After the first advance the work, and that although, be louio nir. grown in a seed bed aud then set out sep- rhillpplne. within the next few years,
workmen will labor to pay It out. then ex- for $25 per year it paia aim i arately in the muddy fields. The field, are Line are already planntd to open up the
pect more, but they always keep from $60 them work on the ""'V . them flooded again and again. The stalks are greater part of Luzon, and one especially
to $100 In debt. One timber man of Manila It was on thai esiais
so much that it takes thu pioflt and th
rice usurers thus keep the country poor.
neon n ut riiiiitullniin.
Thcie is cne investment in the Ph ltppines
the Spaniards.
Tlmlirr if tbe Vhlllpiiln".
Th.. .. uvmlipiits w 11 oueu up the tim
ber lauds. These b long U the government.
profitable road will bo along the Laguna d'
Bay and down into tho southeastern prov- :
luces. This will bilng the hemp to Manila
and give a thukly populated aud rich bet -tlon
railroad accits to tho capital.
There are also many opportunities for
electrical development. The whole country
is one of mountains and valleys, and a1
some future time the streams will be made
to furnish the electric power for the eugai
and other mills. Electric roads will be
built aud a few of the cities will have elec
tric lights and car lines.
These road, will throw open new lands
to settlement and here will be a chance fm
speculation. The Filipino is as emart a
the American as far as his experience goes
but he has no idea of the Increasing value
which come from railroads, and even after
tho railroads are planned one will be abl'
to buv lands at low Drlces. There Is cer
tain to be an increase in real estate valu
almost everywhere, and if one could n
properties with good titles he Is alum-'
sure to make money. The trouble, howevei
Is that titles are often in doubt. Man
of them are disputtd by the priests an'
consequently have to be bought at mud
risk.
I. Iltli1 ( liHnee for l'nor Mini.
There is one thing, however, that shoul
be remembered by all who think of going t
tho Philippines. The country is no pla
for those who have only brains and muscb
to offer. The Filipinos make excellent book
keepers and clerks, and they will work1..
half the wages of an American. Ordinal-;.
labor Is poorly paid, and between the Chi
nese and Filipinos there are few chauci
f r Amerieaus who work only with their
hands.
The same is so with retail merchants.
Tin- trade is almost altogether in the hand
of Chinese, who can live more cheaply and
sell closer than we can. There are limited
openings for American lawyers, doctor, and
demists, and in fact for almost any of our
profe ssional men who w ill go to the telaud.
expecting to stay there aud grow up with
the country.
There is plenty of room for syndicate in-ves-tuients.
Corporation, and Individuals
with large capital can easily place money
where It will pay a big interest on long
time investments. Young men who have
some money and business brains ran find
plenty of chances to make fortunes, but
they must gp out and look over the ground
fur themselves, aud expect to make the
Philippine, their home for eight or ten
years at least.
Indeed, it seems to me that our new pos
sessions offer a most attractive field for
such men. The rhillpplne. are an empire
of undevi in. i d resources w hich as soon as
matter become quiet will go forward on
the seven leaaue boots of modern progress
The most of the country Is healthful, and
In many parts tho climate is better than
that of the southern United States. In the
future every island will be spotted with
the homes of rich and well-to-do Americans,
and I venture that the society there will be
equal to that of any part of the Unite!
States. The American nooulation will b'
rich, it will have good schools at home an 1
will also edui-ate its children abroad. I'
will, in short, be somewhat like the bisi
Boeiety of the south in the days before th
war. FRANK O. CARPENTER.
