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offices are situated. On the Tiinash and Sarstoon 
rivers are the cacao plantations of Mr. H. J. Cramer. 
On the Tunash river Mr. C. B. Steinbrugge has pur¬ 
chased a tract of land from the Government, on which 
he undertakes to plant rubber trees. The banks of 
the Monkey river, and the Swasey and Bladen 
branches, are occupied by settlers, with small planta¬ 
tions of bananas. 
The land of the colony may be roughly divided 
into four classes, viz., swampy land, pine ridge, 
broken pine ridge, and cohune ridge ; the last-named 
comprising the finest land. It is so called because 
the cohune palm is found in it in great abundance. 
The nut of the cohune palm gives a very fine oil. 
but no commercial use has yet been made of it, 
owing to the difficulty of extracting the kernels 
from the hard nut. The nuts are of different sizes, 
and the difficulty is to provide a machine that will 
crack the nuts of any size, without injuring the 
kernels. Various patents have recently been taken 
out for machines to effect this purpose, and at least 
one patentee claims that his machine is successful. 
The cost of bringing the nuts to the machine has 
up to now been heavy, but this difficulty will 
probably be met by bringing the machines to the 
neighbourhood of the nuts, instead of bringing the 
nuts a long distance to the machines. At any rate, 
I hope that machines will be placed at points on 
the Stann Creek railway, within easy reach of the 
cohune palms. The cost of transporting the kernels 
to the coast will then be light. If the difficulty as 
to the machine has really been got over, the cohune 
industry may become more important than that of 
mahogany. 
Cattle have not been raised to any large extent, 
and then principally only to supply animals for haul¬ 
ing timber. There is plenty of grazing land in the 
colony, and even if it may not pay to raise cattle 
