A GLIMPSE OF RUBBER PLANTING IN COSTA RICA. 



THE FIRST SIGHT OF COSTA RICA, THE BANANA REPUBLIC How THE FRUIT is 

 SHIPPED BY THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY ENTERPRISE OF THE NATIVE COSTA 

 RICAN THE CITY OF SAN JOSE AND IT'S NATIONAL THEATRE A PLANTATION OF 

 ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND CASTILLOAS OTHER PLANTATIONS OF LESSER SIZE 

 WATERY LATEX SOME OF THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY TO THE SUCCESS OF THE 

 CASTILLOA. 



OUR first sight of Costa Rica came at five o'clock one morning, 

 when we sighted the low-lying city of Port Limon with its back- 

 ground of far away mountains. It was nearly eight o'clock 

 before we made fast to the pier, and even then it took us some time to 

 have our luggage weighed and the customs paid. The time came finally, 



WHARF AT PORT LIMON, COSTA RICA. 



however, when we were free to walk down the long pier, through the 

 gates, and explore the town. 



Not only is Costa Rica justly called the Banana Republic, but Port 

 Limon is a banana town, and we fully appreciated it when we saw the 

 train loads of green fruit run out upon the piers, the huge bunches 

 dumped upon rubber conveying belts and carried smoothly into the holds 

 of the waiting steamships. The town, moreover, had an alert air about 



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