Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . big way isthat furnished by the operations of the United FruitCompany, the biggest business fact in the tropics. Panama is, ofcourse, only onelink in the colos-sal chain of theoperations ofthis company inthe tropics. Therapidly increas-ing prosperity ofmany of theCentral Repub-lics is due largelyto the sweepingscope of theUnited FruitCompany, andits impress is inevidence allalong the northcoast of SouthAmerica andthroughout theWest Indies. Itsinterests in Ja-ma i c a areenormous. Cubaput Jamaica offthe sugar map,but the UnitedFruit Companycame to
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . big way isthat furnished by the operations of the United FruitCompany, the biggest business fact in the tropics. Panama is, ofcourse, only onelink in the colos-sal chain of theoperations ofthis company inthe tropics. Therapidly increas-ing prosperity ofmany of theCentral Repub-lics is due largelyto the sweepingscope of theUnited FruitCompany, andits impress is inevidence allalong the northcoast of SouthAmerica andthroughout theWest Indies. Itsinterests in Ja-ma i c a areenormous. Cubaput Jamaica offthe sugar map,but the UnitedFruit Companycame to herrescue with anoffer to purchaseall the bananasher planterscould furnish,and Jamaicanow leads theAmerican tropics with 17,000,000 bunches annually,of which the United Fruit Company obtains nearlyhalf, the balance being handled by its company also owns the famous Titchfield Hotelof Port Antonio, and operates the Myrtle BankHotel of Kingston. In Cuba the company owns MARKET PLACE AT ANCON A COLOSSAL AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE 291. FRUIT COMPANY STEAMER AT WHARF 60,000 acres of sugar plantations and its two greatsugar mills will this year add to the worlds product an United Fruit Company made gardens of the lowCaribbean coast lands and created from the virginwilderness such ports as Barrios, Cortez, Limon andBocos del Toro. This Yankee enterprise has erected and maintainsat its own expense many of the lighthouses whichserve its own great fleet and the ships of all theworld. It has dredged new channels and markedthem with buoys. It has installed along the Centraland South American coasts a wireless telegraphservice of the highest power and efficiency. It hasconstructed hundreds of miles of public roads, main-tains public schools, and in other ways renders at itsown expense the services which are presumed to fallon governments. The American financiers associ-ated with it are now pushing to completion the Pan-American railroad which soon will connect New
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