Letter from C. Anderson, 1 January 1891
Fillmore City, Utah, .
President W. Woodruff,
Salt Lake City,
Dear Brother:
I have been quite busy since I met
you and Bro. Cannon in your office, after
having been released from the penitentiary, when
you asked me to ^give you in^ writing my views and ideas
in regard to Central and South America.
While in the penitentiary I formed the ac-
quaintance of a country man of mine, who
was being held on ^a^ charge of illegal voting, who
had traveled much in many countries, and who
had been in Central and South America, and
spent some years in Guatemala, which is the most
northern of the five Central American Republics,
containing something over 40,000 qr. miles, with a
population of about 1 1/2 millions. The climate is
tropical, but quite healthy as a rule, as the country
consists mainly of table-lands of different alti-
tudes. The soil is very fertile, and produces in
profution a great variety of tropical fruits,
bananas, bread-fruit, plantain, sarsaparilla,
mahogany, logwood &c. Sugar cane and coffee
are cultivated. When cane is planted once, it
grows for ten years, producing two crops a year.
Coffee is a profitable product for exportation.
There are some rail-roads, one running through
Guatemala from the Caribian Sea to the Pacific
