Special Bulletin, Volume 1, Issues 1-2Bureau of American Republics, 1893 - America |
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... wood logs would be , almost impos- sible . Some of these woods are almost as hard as iron , and the sawing is difficult and very slow . The plants for the future plantation are raised either on the spot where they are to grow , or in ...
... wood logs would be , almost impos- sible . Some of these woods are almost as hard as iron , and the sawing is difficult and very slow . The plants for the future plantation are raised either on the spot where they are to grow , or in ...
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... woods , 20 cents per acre additional . The consul above cited advises no one to go to Nicaragua to establish himself as a coffee planter with less than $ 3000 or $ 4000 capital . The methods of opening new lands for plantations ...
... woods , 20 cents per acre additional . The consul above cited advises no one to go to Nicaragua to establish himself as a coffee planter with less than $ 3000 or $ 4000 capital . The methods of opening new lands for plantations ...
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... wooden mortars . On the larger plantations more care is given to the preparation of the ground , and the plants are set at regular distances , generally six feet apart . Being planted so near together , it is necessary to top the trees ...
... wooden mortars . On the larger plantations more care is given to the preparation of the ground , and the plants are set at regular distances , generally six feet apart . Being planted so near together , it is necessary to top the trees ...
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... the eleven steamers plying between Barranquilla and Honda , Pueblo Viejo and Cartagena is about 1000 tons of coal per month . They now burn wood , and are often delayed on the river by not having a supply 12 COAL AND PETROLEUM IN COLOMBIA .
... the eleven steamers plying between Barranquilla and Honda , Pueblo Viejo and Cartagena is about 1000 tons of coal per month . They now burn wood , and are often delayed on the river by not having a supply 12 COAL AND PETROLEUM IN COLOMBIA .
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often delayed on the river by not having a supply ready or the wood having been washed away by high water . This represents 12,000 tons per year : The Panama Railroad consumes . The Savanilla Railroad consumes .... Cartagena Railroad ...
often delayed on the river by not having a supply ready or the wood having been washed away by high water . This represents 12,000 tons per year : The Panama Railroad consumes . The Savanilla Railroad consumes .... Cartagena Railroad ...
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Page 17 - President shall be satisfied that the government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States...
Page 17 - States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power and it shall be his duty to suspend, by proclamation to that effect, the provisions of this act relating to the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the production of such country, for such time as he shall deem just, and in such case and during such suspension duties shall be levied, collected and paid upon sugar, molasses, coffee, tea and hides, the product of or exported from such...
Page 17 - That with a view to secure reciprocal trade with countries producing the following articles, and for this purpose, on and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, whenever, and so often as the President shall be satisfied that the Government of any country producing and exporting sugars, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides, raw and uncured, or any of such articles, imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of...
Page 23 - claims, which are adjoining each other, and which, in reality, form only one and the same large deposit. This ore belt extends from NNE to SSW, and covers an area of about half a mile in length by a quarter of a mile in width.
Page 17 - ... imposes duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States which, in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hide", into the United States, he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable...
Page 18 - Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms, sirups of cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, concrete and concentrated molasses, testing by the polariscope not above seventyfive degrees, ninety-five one-hundredths of one cent per pound, and for every additional degree shown by the polariscopic test, thirty-five onethousandths of one cent per pound additional...
Page 19 - Molasses testing above fifty-six degrees, four cents per gallon. Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariecopic test.
Page 17 - Canal, now permitted to vessels of all nations, he shall deem to be reciprocally unjust and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty, to suspend...
Page 18 - Colombia and public notice of that fact given by the President of the United States, and I do hereby proclaim that on and after this...
Page 18 - Dutch standard in color shall be classified by the Dutch standard of color and pay duty as follows, namely: All sugar above number thirteen and not above number sixteen Dutch standard of color, one and three-eighths cents per pound.