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BANANA TRADE IN NICARAGUA. 



The fruit trust, operating in the West Indies and Central America, 

 the principal associates of which are the Boston Fruit Company, of Bos- 

 ton, Minor C. Keith, of Costa Rica, and others, have entered the banana 

 fields of the Department of Zelaya (Bluefields and Rama districts), 

 Nicaragua. Their representative, Mr. J. Lamotte Morgan, arrived at 

 Bluefields, and, going into the heart of the banana district, secured con- 

 tracts from nearly all of the larger planters. Mr. Morgan tells me that 

 it is the purpose of his people to put on a line of steamers immediately, 

 with the view of controlling all of the banana trade in Nicaragua. The 

 advent of this new corpo; ition will probably have the effect, at least for 

 the present, of advancing the price of bananas and cheapening freights 

 on incoming and outgoing cargoes. Mr. Morgan states that the freight 

 and passsenger service of the new line will be in every respect superior 

 to that of the old company, and it is probable that a small but fast 

 steamer will be run as an auxiliary between Port Limon, Costa Rica, 

 and San Juan del Norte, Bluefields, and Cape Gracias, Nicaragua. — 

 Report of United States Consul at San Juan del Norte, 



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