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on any of the hundreds of s,,uare miles of rich land around 

 lakes oralong the banks of these rivers, easy and cheap transpor 

 Ution to market, and frequent communication with I] 

 world. Such canals w ill undoubted! y he made within th< 

 three years, perhaps within the next twelvemonti. 

 American H>ndura- Corn; 



A good wagon road from the head of navigation of the i'atuca 

 t.) tli- valley of Juticalpa, and along that valley to the raj ; 

 the Department of Olancho would do mere than all other . 

 combined have done for the development of mitral and :. 

 Honduras. For carrying goods fr<>m this city to the coast the 

 < haru-e is 71; rents |*-r pound, or $150 per ton; nor <an the mule 

 teers do the work for less without losing mon. 

 quence is that the valleys ami hillsides where sugar, < 

 and other products wanted in foreign mark. 

 witli a minimum outlay, are neglected. The cost of trai; 

 tion to market leaves nothing for the producer, and he h 

 enough to do nothing for nothing rather than work for no: 

 At Juticalpa the (Juayape, the Jalun. and the I 

 meet t > form th Paturi. which the < i'l-iyambre joins a 

 away. Each of these rivers rises in a rich gold or i 

 ducing region, where minex an not r:.-w 1 e j K t:t.-.lil\ cpD< 

 worked. Because the ditticulty practically the impo.-sihilit' 

 introdiiringsuch machinery as N BeCCtMry ? .1 mining 



nts. All of these rivers How through val!- il of 



which is rich, yieldini: n-.M ahundanlly when lilhd; l.ut 



ir.dtli part i- culti\ 



>r the city of Jutiralf.a the river Telira .-liters the 1'ati. 

 after draining the valley of Maiit... famed for it- eXCelfc 

 and hor^ev it^ jirod.. [| ..,,! , ,,tTee plant.-, 



its gold, silver and < 



forty mi], .nd from :. 



rich in - 



iwKof inhaliit:: It is ,,f these 'mountain 



valleysthat < 'f,r)s M ] i', ur( i, f | M . ri( , r ,j 



