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Sandakan agri land identified
Published on: Saturday, October 24, 2020
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The particulars of Land Sales which we are enabled to give below may be interesting to many friends who are watching the progress of affairs in North Borneo: 

The greater part of the country or agricultural land hitherto taken up has been in Sandakan Bay, which with its many rivers affords exceptional attractions to the planter. The favourite river appears to be the Sapagaya, where, following the lead of an experienced Australian sugar planter, the entire area for some miles back has been applied for. 

The price having been advanced in Sandakan Bay from $1 to $2 an acre, attention is being turned to other parts of the Company's territory. At Silam Darvel Bay — where the Government Experimental Garden is situated — we hear 20,000 acres have already been applied for; and the Benkoka river in Murudu Bay (twelve miles by sea from the Company's Head Quarters at Kudat) will no doubt be sought after amongst the many other places on the west coast still unexposed. 

Mr von Donop's experiments at Silam leave no doubt as to its suitability for nearly every tropical product, including cinchona and Liberian coffee. 

We learn that the Government contemplate cutting a good road from Sandakan to Silam, which will doubtless do a great deal towards attracting the attention of prospectors to that neighbourhood, and we venture to predict for it a future equal to that of Elopura. 

We hear that land sales have been made at Guya, and hope to add particulars before going to press. The West Coast seems likely to prove attractive to families and pepper planters. The planting fever seems to be attacking all classes, and Chinese and Europeans alike are anxious to try their fortunes at cultivation. 

This is a new direction for the energy and enterprise of the Chinaman to take, and the confidence which it indicates must be a gratifying sign to the Government; but we would venture to warn the Chinese cultivators of large tracts how they enter upon undertakings of this nature without first acquiring some information from European friends, or from Government officials who are qualified to advise them, and who would willingly give them the benefit of their knowledge as to the nature of the soil of which their grants are composed, what to plant, and how to plant it, so as to avoid useless expenditure, disappointment, and perhaps failure, which would act as a serious check upon the new encouraging progress of the territory. 

In a new country like this, advice by qualified persons is as readily given as it is easily sought, and, in the interests of the hard-working and enterprising Government which protects their property, if not of themselves, intending planters should take every precaution against failure which may prove so injurious to all parties. 

 



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