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1835-01-10

Notice invites bids to cut mahogany on La Gonâve

Haitian

The governments of Haiti have always sought to lease so fine a domain. A notice of 10 January 1835, issued by the secretary of state J. C. Imbert, invited companies disposed to undertake cuttings of mahogany timber there to address their bids to him. At the end of 1862, M. Gros, one of the members of the London Society for the exploitation of the island of the Gonâve, came to Port-au-Prince and had given himself to the explorations that were to precede the organization of the exploitation, when the government of President Geffrard granted the island to M. Auguste Elie, his former secretary of state for finance. After the death of the concessionaire, his widow continued this arduous work. The new contract of Madame the widow Aug. Elie, renewed in 1874, was to expire in 1883, but the government of President Salomon, before the expiry, expelled this lady from the island.

Rouzier tells this under the entry Gonâve (la).

Source  ·  p. t. II, p. 35 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. II) (1892), p. t. II, p. 35