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“...J. Henry Pusey (over
seventeen years resident missionary of the
Baptist Missionary Society in the Turks and
Caicos Islands). Jamaica, Mortimer C. Be Souza,
Kingston, 1897.
Pg. 80. The Fibre industry was started in these Islands
in 1890. In the month of June of that year, three bales of
Fibre extracted from the Pita plant, grown on the property
at Haulover (Grand Caicos), were shipped on the S.S. Geo.
W. Clyde, to New York. The property is owned by the Hon.
Alfred Stubbs, and was leased for a number of years for the
purpose of this experimental trade by Joseph L. Hance Esq.
United States Consul, for these islands. The success that
attended Mr. Hances new venture, gave rise in the same
year to the establishment of two other Fibre Companies,
protected by the Trading Companies Ordinance of 1890. The
East Caicos Fibre Co. have leased the large tract of land on
1) Door Dr. Homs gequalificeerd als agave rigida, var. sisalana (biz. 79)....”
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