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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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on of the future, nature has pro-vided the country with coal fields whereverwater power may be wanting. The Cauca, Mag-dalena, and other immense rivers have theirsources in or near the stupendous elevation ofland known as the Massif. This is the Tibet ofSouth America—the roof of the continent. It is THE NEIV ERA IN COLOMBIA. 569 an untouched coffer of nature. Unpopulatedand unexplored, it offers to the adventurous,daring, and haray element of humanity a newColorado, enlarged ten times. There is incalcu-lable wealth of gold, silver, copper, iron, andother metals stored within it. To reach these,human ingenuity will be severely tested. Intri-cate engineering problems must be solved. Butthe means of solution are at hand, and Colom-bian intelligence will be quickened by the task. SOME OF THE LEADING PRODUCTS. Last year, Colombia made a new record in theexportation of coffee. Owing to losses of thecrop in Brazil, the price of coffee has risengreatly, and more to the advantage of Colombia
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COLOMBIA, SHOWING SITUATION IN RELATION TO THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA than any other 8outh American country. Be-cause of the steady depreciation in the price ofcoffee, the rest of the continent has been limit-ing production, while Colombia has been aug-menting it at an unprecedented rate. This year,Colombian coffee-growers, after four years of cul-tivation, find the millions of coffee trees plantedby them in the Magdalena Valley, the depart-ment of Cundinamarca, and the Cucuta Valleyyielding from one to two pounds of beans apiece.According to official estimates, $5,000,000 worthof coffee will be exported through the port ofBarranquilla this year, $2,000,000 through Car-tagena, $2,000,000 from Cucuta, and $1,000,000from other ports. Within two years, Venezuela,now ranking next to Brazil, will give place toColombia as a coffee-pro-ducer. After 1896, the valueof the coffee output dimin-ished 10 per cent, a yearprogressively until 1904,when the value of all ex-ported was about one-thirdas much

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