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THE CONDITIONS
IN GUATEMALA.
Coffee Grower’s Views of Ex
tent of Volcanic Disaster.
)ROP IN DANGER FROM THE ASHLS
Planter Says CocfTee Trees Are Very
Delieate and Presence of Large
Quantities of Foreign Substance
About Them Is Apt to Kill Them.
Capital Aflected.
A coffee grower who returned a few
’
days ago from Guatemala, the scene
of the recent volcanic disaster, said
the other night to a reporter of the
New York Times:
“The department of Tumbador, which
{s mentioned in the dispatches as be
ing in the zone of the volecanic erup
tions, gets its name from a peculiar
rumbling in the earth, caused, it is
supposed, by a subterranean volcano.
Tumbador means “the Thunderer.”
The center of the department is about
forty miles from tbe Pacific ocean, in
the mountains, as the land rises from
the sea as far as Quezaltenango, which
is about 100 miles from the coast. Last
summer Quezaltenango suffered a se
vere earthquake, which partially de
stroyed the town. The city is located |
in what is supposed to be the crater of ‘
an extinet volcano and is at an eleva
tion of about 7,000 or 8,000 feet.
“Santa Maria, which is reported as
having been in eruption, is not far
away. Another volcano towers above i
the town itself, but that has been ex- |
tinet for many years. It is probably |
10,000 feet in height. The departments
of Quezaltenango and Tumbador are
among the richest coffee growing sec- |
tions in the state. The coffee is said
to grow best at an elevation of from |
2,000 to 4,000 feet, so that those de
partments are admirably suited for.the
purpose of coffee growing, and the cof
fee produced there is recognized in for
eign marikets as being some of the fin
est in the world.
“The Germans have invested heavily
all through Guatemala, and particular
ly in the section reported to have been
devastated by the eruption of the vol
cano. Mortgages are held by German
firrns on most of the plantations, or
fincas. Earthquakes in that part of
the country are frequent, but until last
summer they had not caused destruc
tion for many years. Some of the
fincas are owned by Americans, who
have gone down there, cleaned out the
virgin forest and planted the land with
coffee. Two brothers-in-law of Charle
magne Tower have or had a planta
tion in the department of Tumbador.
Alexander Nowell of San Francisco,
who went to Guatemala from South
Carolina about twenty years ago, had
a plantation in that section for which
he was offered $200,000 in gold a few
years ago by a German firm, but he
refused the offer, and, if reports are
true, his plantation has been entirely
ruined along with the others. It is un
fortunate that the harvesting of the
coffee is just ending at the present
time, so that the crop has undoubtedly
been greatly injured by ashes falling
from the volcano.
“(Coffee berries are very easily shaken
from the trees when they are ripe, and
once on the ground no attempt is made
to pick them up, so that undoubtedly
the loss In that regard will be irre
trievable. Just around the city of
Quezaltenango there is little coffee
grown, as the elevation is too great
and it is too cold, but in Tumbador
there is Fttle else grown, nearly all the
lands heing coffee fincas. What would
make the situation worse is that coffee
trees are extremely delicate, and the
presence of a foreign substance in
large quantities about them is apt to
kill them. They require much atten
tion in the way of fertilization. Some
vears ago a volcano which was said to
have heen in an entirely different part
of the country, away from the depart
ment of Tumbador, became active. The
leaves of the coffee trees were covered
with the ashes, even at that distance,
and the crop was badly damaged,
though not en*!ro'y rujned. When it is
Said Wisdom
to the
Hungry Man .
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Biscuit
:&)z:%:;"'eréd that Sinta Maria ls a coni
[ paratively short distance away, an idea
of the havoe wrought at the city of
| Quezaltenango can be gained.
| “At this time of year, just at the
| close of the rainy season, roads are al
| most impassable. The residents must
| have had little opportunity of saving
' their household goods or personal be
flon;:ings. as it is almost impossible to
| transport ghods except on mule back,
'and little can be carried in that man
ner.
‘| “The nearest port on the Pacific to
| Tumbador and Quezaltenango is Ocos.
| which is fifteen or twenty miles from
‘the Mexican frontier. It is there that
| the Pacific Mail steamships touch going
‘and coming about every ten days. This
{3 merely a little town on a sandspit,
with 400 or 500 inhabitants and con
taining only a few frame‘ residences.
The United States consular agent there
is Samuel Wolford, and his wife is a
' Philadelphin woman. The town un
” doubtedly suffered severely, as it is lo
}catcd just at the foot of the slope of
the mountain. Champerico is another
‘port of Guatemala, about twenty miles
farther down the coast. Much coffee.
is shipped from those ports.
«The British consular agent at Que
zaltenango, Hugo Fleischmann, is one
of the best known foreign residents of
Guatemala, and is interested in a large
general store, which does business
throughout the country. If the reports
are true giving the correct estimate of
damage to property, millions of dollars’
worth must have been destroyed, and
the coffee growing must have received
a setback from which it will take years
to recover.”
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