Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . IN THE BANANA COUNTRY289 290 PANAMA AND THE CANAL who ship them north to be made into buttons andother articles of general use. Nobody has yetexperimented with the cultivation of the tree, andthere is reason to believe that with cultivation largernuts could be. obtained, and,by planting,considerablegroves estab-lished. Thetrees grow wellin every part ofthe Darien, andthe demand,with the rapiddiminution inthe supply ofreal ivory,should be agrowing one. Indeed, themore one studiesPanama and itsresources themore one is con-vinced that allthat is nece
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . IN THE BANANA COUNTRY289 290 PANAMA AND THE CANAL who ship them north to be made into buttons andother articles of general use. Nobody has yetexperimented with the cultivation of the tree, andthere is reason to believe that with cultivation largernuts could be. obtained, and,by planting,considerablegroves estab-lished. Thetrees grow wellin every part ofthe Darien, andthe demand,with the rapiddiminution inthe supply ofreal ivory,should be agrowing one. Indeed, themore one studiesPanama and itsresources themore one is con-vinced that allthat is necessaryto make thecountry a richand prosperousone, or at anyrate to cause itto create richesand prosperityfor investors, isthe applicationof capital, laborand systematicmanagement tothe resources italready posses-ses. In its 400 years of Spanish and mestizo control these threefactors have been continuously lacking. There aremen in Panama, of native birth and of Spanishorigin, who have undertaken to develop certain ofthe lands resources and have moderately enrichedthemselves. But the most striking evidence of the success to be obtained from attacking the industrialproblem in Panama systematically and in a big way isthat furnished by the operations of the United FruitCompany, the biggest business fact i
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