Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . were a total hospital buildings and a number of dwellings at Daiquiriwere afterwards burned by order of the United States offi-cers commanding. At Siboney, the Juragua Companysvillage, a number of buildings were also burned by order ofthe United States officers in command. Rich deposits of iron ore of several varieties are found inthe provinces of Santa Clara and Puerto Principe, and somework has
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . were a total hospital buildings and a number of dwellings at Daiquiriwere afterwards burned by order of the United States offi-cers commanding. At Siboney, the Juragua Companysvillage, a number of buildings were also burned by order ofthe United States officers in command. Rich deposits of iron ore of several varieties are found inthe provinces of Santa Clara and Puerto Principe, and somework has been done in developing, but the war put an endto it. The following list of the mining properties, all in theprovince of Santiago, with the number of acres, condition,etc., may be useful as reference: Dorothea and Recrio. ... 4 mines, 300 acres For sale Carpintero 9 4< 1300 Bayamitas 5 925 Guama 6 950 Cuero 6 760 For sale De la Plata 9 975 ..... Sigua Company Uvera and Jaqueca 12 44 1557 10 for sale Berracoe 4 502 $150,000 refused Cajobaba 8 — For sale Economia 19 2650 Providencia 3 — Madalena 8 1000 4 4 * Demajobo 1 <4 150 44 44 Juragua Group 17 4i 2500 11 Sevilla 11 1300. MINING CAMP AT FIRENEZA. Mines and Mining 323 All these mining properties are from two hundred tofifteen hundred feet above the sea, and though the climateis hot, the region is not affected by fevers or malaria, and itmay be said to be the most healthful section of the location is excellent for mining and shipping also,being from five to sixty miles from Santiago; and nearlyall of the properties have excellent outlets to the sea or areconveniently located to rail facilities. Nature as usual inCuba has done her share, except in the production of man,and the most serious drawback to mining is the want ofproper labour. The whites, except of the Latin races, arenot equal to the work, and the blacks are inefficient as com-pared with the same class of labour in higher latitudes. Thelabour pro
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