REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES ve. DECLASSIFIED Ailhority Stateletter Inha ey me NART Da! 9 2498 to said companies and the remaining 70 corban private parties. But the companies which represent feel obliged to carry out their normal activities since this movement of an aggressive strike has no foundation whatsoever in the laws of the country. To this effect, take the liberty of informóng you, Mr. President, that next Friday shall personally travel to direct cutting operations and transporta tion of fruit in the Guacimo section and in the others which may be in a condition to supply the greatest quantity of cut fruit in the shortest time, and hope to obtain from the Costa Rican Government the proper protection for the accomplishment of that legitima te purpose. an positive that the fruit which is cut will reach the pier in Limon without incident; and although am not sure that the United Fruit Company ship which regularly arrives every week at that port will arrive next Saturday, in view of the difficulties which have heretofore presented themselves, shall have the cutting done and the fruit transported to Timon even without that assurance.
Another point on which desire to inform you, Mr.
President, is the following: We have stored at Mile 40 2 on the Costa Rica Railroad Line one hundred cases of dynamite and a like quantity at the place called Bonilla on the same line, to meet requirements of the frequent repairs which must be carried out in connection with interruptions of train schedules by landslides. The precautions which the ordinary handling of said explosives require have always been taken; but the abnormal situation which prevails today in that region makes new and extraordinary precautions