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PUERTO PRINCIPE, CUBA
April L'sth, 1899.
Editoh New s : —Having seen my
first letter in print, it encourages
me to write again.
I hardly know where to begin
this letter as there are so many
things I could write about, but to
begin with I’ll tell you something
about the weather, as that is al
ways a thorn to editorial flesh for
an insignificant correspondent to
begin his few lines, regarding the
condition of the weather we are
still having that delightful weath
er that 1 spoke of in my last letter
with one or two exceptions. For
the last four weeks wo have had a
little more rain than wo did for
the first eight weeks of our stay
hero, but notwithstanding that we
have not had hardly enough to
keep the dust settled. The weather
is getting a little hotter, the tem
perature some days running as
high as 100 in the shade but that
is only in the middle of the day;
the fore and afternoon are still as
pleasant as can be. The natives
claim that the rainy season is like
ly to set in now at any time.
There are two regiments of sol
diers in Puerto Principe Provi
dence. There are about 1000 mon
in each regiment and about lot)
civilian employes in each, making
a total of about 2,200 men in all.
In the cavalry and regiment there
are about 200 in the hospital, and
about the same number on the
sick report, making in all 400 out
of 1 ,<hh) unfit for duty. There is
a g >od deal of typhoid, but gener
ally the fever isof a malarial type.
About three weeks ago the death
rate in this regiment was from one
to three per day, and it was getting
to b.> the general talk all over
camp that gross negligence was
lurking somewhere and conse
quently a general investigation
was made. The investigating com
mittee brought to light another
hospital scandal that equaled, if
not surpassed the one at Chicka
mauga last summer. The com
mittee found no less than half a
dozen men, that while delirious
with a scorching fever, got their
mouths full of screw worms: u
worm that is ten tim s worse than
a maggot. They found men that
had lay on tin irents for three ami
four days at a time, with a tem
perature at 104 without any medi
cal attention whatever. The re
sult of the matter was the arrest
of one major doctor and two or
three contract doctors and several
hospital stewards. They were all
tried by a general court martial,
which resulted in the discharge of i
the doctor, and the stewards got a I
big hue aud six mouths in the i
I guard house. It is a disgrace to
the United States to have her
soldieris treated in any such a
shameful manner. The officers are
doing their best to keep the mat
ter suppressed and doubtless to a
great extent they will succeed. At
present there are six or eight Red
Cross lady nurses in the hospital
and and patients are being well
cared for; the death rate at present
being only one or two per week.
Yesterday the doctor reported ten
cases of yellow fever in the hos
pital and today two more, though
the report may be exaggerated
somewhat and I hope that it is,
but let that be as it may they have
got a guard around that ward and
the yellow fever signal up. tine
cause of so many soldiers being
sick is in a great measure their
own fault- They go to town and
get drunk on the Cuban rum,
which is made of sugar cane, and
then they are three times out of
five ready for the hospital. A
number of men have been known
to die in twenty-four hours after
i getting intoxicated on this bev
. erage.
The government has 200Cubans
. employed in town repairing the
. old Spanish cavalry and infantry
i barracks, preparatory for the sol
-1 fliers when the rainy season sets
: in The infantry barracks is a one
st >ry brick building with a two
< story front and is built around a
[ square 250 feet each way and is 50
, feet wide with a conservatory in
the center. In the conservatory
i are all the rare plants and flowers
. that are known to this favored
land of summer. In the building
there is ample room for at least
. 1,001 soldiers. The cavalry bar
racks is a large and spacious
building after the same ordi-r with
the exception of the three story
front.
We have just come in from a
trip out into the interior where we
went after a band of guerillas that
were stealing cattle, plundering
stores and ranches and destroying
property genera ly.
B. Troop went out and of cours
the pack train had to go to carry pro-1
visions and feed for the stock. We
reached the place about dark on 10th
of April, and lav over hi camp until
the next morning, when we all started
in pursuit of ihe evil doers. We had
not goue but a -bort < istance when we !
sighted a small band of men about ai
mile distant. We all turned in that j
direction and as weneared the place
they poured a volley of shot into us
from ambush, which resulted in the
wounding of two soldiers and the kill- ■
ing of two horses and one mule. We .
then surrounded the posse and cap-1
: lured ail of them without any morel
I shots being tiled They were brought
|»aßl, back tv camp aud am uew safely!
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, WEDNESDAY,MAY io, 1899*
in prison. While the wounds that the |
soldiers received are only flesh wounds, (
tl ey are very painful. The mule that
was shot was my poor unfortunate
He :d. When shot he turned a somer
eatill, falling on ine and dislocating my ’
left hand at the wrist and spraining
my right shoulder. There are about |
600 recruits out of each regiment here
that arc to get their discharges or rath
er be sent back to the states to be 1
mustered out in a few days. A few |
recruits have come to fill up some of
the vacancies aud they arc looking for
about 500 in now every day.
We had the first overland mail about
two weeks ago. It started from Ila
vannah and was on its way to San
tiago.
A few words as to the wealth or
rather the natural resources of Cuba.
Land is very cheap it is laid off into
squares called caballeria. One cabal
leria is equivolent to 32 1 3 American
acres. You can buy from one to as
many caballerians as you want. There
are some colossal landed estates here
that own 800 caballerians which is
equal to 25,866 1-3 acres. This land
can be bought anywhere from §3O to
§IOO per caballeria and close to town
at that. Santiago and Puerto Principe ,
providences are not agricultural provi
dences. Cattle raising is the chief oc- \
cupation here and is very profitable as
the land is very rich and fertile and
the grass is green and tender twelve
months in the year. Cattle are very
scarce and high at present. A good
yoke of c ttle are worth from §l5O to
§2OO. Beef is worth 30 cents per
pound, and milk sells at 40 cents per
quart or §1.60 per gallon. That is
what the hospital pays for it and they
can’t buy very much even at these fig
ures. This is not much of a country
for hogs as they have to be fed all the
time and it is too expensive to feed
them corn. Bacon is worth 20 cents
per pound. Poultry raising would be
very profitable here fora time at least.
Eggs are worth 5 cents a piece or 50
cents per dozen. Chickens are worth
from 50 cents to §1 a piece. Cabbage
are worth 50 cents per head. In fact
everything that you buy in the line of
groceries you will pay three or four
prices for. Santa Clara providence
and the pi evidences toward Havannah
are the agricultural providences. Cof
fee and tobacco are the chief money
crops. It takes about 5 years to get a
coffee plantation into full bearing, al
though the little trees will begin to
bear at the age of six months. The
coffee bas to be planted under a shade,
not only while it is young an t tender
but it always requires a shade, as the
hot sun will kill the bush at an|y age.
They are usually planted in a mango
grove. The mango is a native of the
East Indies and in appearance resem
bles an orange tree. It bears a very
delicious fruit. So far as I’ve been
able to find out the profits on an acre
of coffee are about §2OO above all
expenses. From the natives but lit
tle reliabje information can be gained
about the profits of any crop or partic
ular branch of industry. For this
there are two reasons; first, the na
tives are very ignorant; second, dur
ing Spanish rule they had no fixed
price or value on anything. The
Spaniards just gave them what they
saw fit. All that the natives ever got
out of their products was just barely
enough to keep soul aud body to
gether.
There is tobaccs that the fine Ha
vannah cigars are made of. They can
raise from 500 to 1,000 pounds per
acre. We can buy the finest Hava
na cigars here for 5 and 10 cents for
which we would pay from 25 to 50
cents for in the states. This fine to
bacco is small and the leaf is very
thin, consequently the yield per acre
is light. There is the bananna—it has
to be cultivated to a certain extent.
They plant them in rows about four
or five feet apart aud they are about
three feet in the drill. They grow to
a height!) of about ten feet, the ba
naunas growing on the mam stem in
top of the stalk, and as they grow they
begin to bend towards the ground.
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They are always cut green and hung
up for a few days to ripen. They are
l of two varieties, yellow and red, the
'red ones grow to an enormous size;
' some of them are nearly as large as an
1 ear of corn.
Cocoanuts are a great source of
1 wealth. They grow spontaneously,
' aud will gtow in the jungle out in the
: open field, iu the yard or anywhere.
They need uo cultivation, no pruning.
'no nothing. All that they need is for
the fruit to be gathered when it gets
ripe. It takes about ten years for a|
cocoanut tree to begin to bear. They ;
will begin to bear at a height of ten ■
feet; some of the trees are thirty feet
high and the same size all the way
from the ground up to the top. One
tree will often have nearly a barrel
full of cocoanuls on it at one firm ;
they ripen every month in the year.
A tree has the little ones on it the size
of a marble up to the large ripe ones
the year round.
Orange culiure is but little can led
on in Cuba, in fact they don’t raise
any for commercial purposes. The
only reason that I’ve been able to get
for this, as yet, is because it takes too
long to get a grove in to bearing and it
takes too much labor for a Cuban
The Cubans, you will bear in mind,
aie very economical with their labor.
They haven’t got any budded .trees;
they are seedlings. According to what
some old orange grove men that have
been in Florida for years tell me, this
would be a very fine place to plant an
orange grove. According to their ex
perience an orange grove would pay
better than anything on the island,
provided it was managed after Ameri
can style. It would be no trouble to
get all the sout tree here that you
might want, as they grow spontane
ously. They are the very kind 'o put
sweet buds into.
A grove of ten acre would be 800
trees as 80 are generally planted on an
acre. Al the age of 8 years, if well
cared for, they would bear al least five
boxes to the tree and that would be
4,000 on ten acres. In Florida they
have never been less than §1.75 per
box eu the trees, and for the last few
years they have" not been less than
§2.50 in the grove, but say they',brought
§2.00 per box. That would be §B,OOO
for one ciop, and the older the trees
get the heavier the yield.
An old orange raiser told me that
he had gathered as high as 25 boxes
off one tree. The advantage that a
budded tree has over a seedling is that
the budded tree never misses a crop
while the seedling will bear a full crop
this year and next year it will bear a
half crop or perhaps none at all. The
natives claim that every thing you
plant here will thrive and grow, it
matters not what season you plant it.
All that this favored land needs is
American capital, labor and persever
ance to make it the garden spot of the
earth. There is but one drawback to
Cuba and that is the yellow fever. It
is, to my honest opinion, that any per
severing, energetic American could
come here with a few hundred dollars
capital and stay here for a few years
he would be a rich man, for there is
money in any branch of business that
he might decide to go into. Now for
an illustration, here is the town of
Puerto Principe which has 46,000 in
habitants, and they havent a bank, a
livery stable, a laundry, a respectable
hotel now, nor have never had.
Well, I will close for this time, al
though there are several other things
that I would like to write about, but I
will wait until next time.
C. 11. Hamilton.
Mnndie'n Conjecture.
Maudie’a papa is night editor on a
newspaper, a fact which Mandie ap
parently hasn’t learned, for when some
»ne asked her a few days ago what her
father did for a living she replied:
“I div it up. I fink he's a burglar,
tause he's out all night
aMliinuton ns n Business Man.
At the time of his death he was sup
posed to be the largest landholder in the
country, being possessed of 51,395 acres,
exclusive cf the Mount Vernon estate,
his town properties and the real estate
of his wife. The value of his property
at his death, again excluding the Mount
5 ernon estate and the property of his
wife, was estimated at §530,000. The
estate at Mount Vernon included 8,000
acres. In Ford's “Washington” an ac
count is given of the stock on the
Mount Vernon property.
It appears that in 1793 Washington
had 54 draft horses on the estate. 317 I
head of cattle. 634 sheep and "many”
hogs. The live stock whs valued at his
death at §35.000. In addition to the
draft horses already mentioned, he
had in 1799 “3 covering jacks and 3
young ones. 10 she asses. 42 working
mules and 51 younger ones.” Mount
Vernon was a community in itself, in
cluding si'me 300 persons. Washington
had his own blacksmith shop, his own
brickmaker and masons, his Carpenters,
shoemaker and weavers. We can read
ily understand how it was that while he |
was president he was continually think- |
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