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To: Sig who wrote (140809)	7/18/2004 12:45:10 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

Pity that so little guano is available. "Finding no success at attaining Peruvian guano, the United States sought ot acquire new sources of the stuff. In 1856 Congress passed and President Buchanan signed the Guano Islands Act. The Act read: Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other Government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States..." "...Within fifty years, the importance of guano was forgotten. In some places, like lonely Clipperton Island in the North Pacific, there was nothing left to mine. More importantly though, by 1900, better, synthesized fertilizers had been discovered and were widely available. The men who worked guano islands came home, and the companies that owned guano islands dissolved. The guano was gone, or in cases where it was still there, the men were gone from the islands." guano.com