Excerpt from The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Vol. 8: History of Central America; 1801-1887 Early Agriculture - Protection of the Industry - Great Progress Attained - Communal Lands - Agricultural Wealth - Decay of Cochineal Development of Other Staples - Indigo, Coffee, Sugar, Cacao, and Tobacco - Food and Other Products - Precious Woods and Medicinal Plants - Live-stock - Value of Annual Production in Each State Natural Products of Panama - Neglect 'of Agriculture - Mineral Wealth - Yield of Precious Metals - Mining in Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua - Deposits of Guatemala and Costa Rica - Mints Former Yield of Panama - Mining Neglected on the Isthmus - In cipiency of Manufactures - Products for Domestic Use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.