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The United Fruit Company's Radio Telegraph System
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NEW STATION AT TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS Now being built by tlie Tropical Radio Telegraph Company
bananas, sugar, cacao and cocoanuts. It also conducts an extensive freight and passenger business.
Its tropical divisions are located in Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Panama and the Canary Islands. During the past ten years it has shipped from the tropics 284,000,000 bunches of bananas.
It has on its payrolls, including those of its subsidiaries, approximately 67,000 employees. It owns 1,536,000 acres of land of which more than 365,000 are cultivated. In addition it leases 125,000 acres of land of which 30,000 are cultivated.
It operates more than 1,300 miles of railways, 500 miles of tramways and over 3,500 miles of telephone and telegraph lines, in addition to its radio system.
In Latin America it does a mercantile business amounting to more than ^10,000,000 a year.
The United Fruit Company is one of the most complete and best equipped organizations devoted to the production of sugar. This fact is not generally known by the public, which regards it solely as a banana and steamship enterprise. It has in Cuba 87,000 acres of cane and two large sugar mills located at the seaboard, and owns the Revere Sugar Refinery at Boston, which is one of the most modern plants of its kind in the world.
Before closing the story of this remarkable company and its achievements, mention should be made of its medical service in the tropics. Probably few realize the magnitude of this service including, as it does, not only
the care of the sick, but preventive medicine and supervision of sanitation. Yet on the preservation of health and improved conditions which make living in the tropics safe and enjoyable has depended in a large measure the success of all that the United Fruit Company has attempted and achieved.
An annual medical service, which is expressed in six figures, commands attention. During 192 1 the number of patients cared for in the tropics by the Company's medical department was 208,000, of whom 33,000 were non-employees. A large personnel of experienced executives, doctors and nurses, recruited from all over the world, is carrying on the work of this department of the United Fruit Company's activities.
The cost last year of operating hospitals and dispensaries was $240,000 in excess of receipts. Through other departments directly associated with but not included in its medical service, the company spends annually in sanitation $275,000; for parks and street cleaning $200,000; and $300,000 in excess of receipts for electric light plants and waterworks.
The Company has expended more than $200,000,000 toward the development of the Latin American countries where it does business and is the most potent factor in the extensive commercial relations of the United States with these countries.
These few salient facts concerning the United Fruit Company and its operations clearly indicate the varied interests served by its ex
OPERATING HOUSE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
At the new Tegucigalpa station of the Tropical Radio Telegraph Company. Afl the buildings at this station will be made of stone