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 . those needed for the bare necessities ofschools, for the poor, and possibly, in small sums, for theimprovement of sanitary conditions. The dawn of prosper-ity should, however, be the signal for inaugurating system- 1 A cable despatch to the New York Sun, dated Santiago, December 19th, aweek after the author left Santiago, contains the information that GeneralWood has now completed his scheme of local taxat
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 . those needed for the bare necessities ofschools, for the poor, and possibly, in small sums, for theimprovement of sanitary conditions. The dawn of prosper-ity should, however, be the signal for inaugurating system- 1 A cable despatch to the New York Sun, dated Santiago, December 19th, aweek after the author left Santiago, contains the information that GeneralWood has now completed his scheme of local taxation, and that the local ma-chinery will soon be in running order. The despatch says: A committee of the Chamber of Commerce met General Wood at the palaceto-day and agreed to accept the scheme of municipal taxation arranged by thecommittee of American officers and Cubans. The scheme in operation the firstyear will yield annually $240,000, or sixty per cent, under the Spanish is not retroactive. General Wood decided to-day, after consultation, that itwill be impossible to make many merchants pay the back tax without city loses nearly $100,000 by the < 2 U < The Americans in Santiago 67 atic work on the country roads. The province of Santiagode Cuba is similar in geographical and geological structureto the island of Jamaica, where, as is shown elsewhere in thisvolume, the good main and parochial roads have been theprincipal stay of the population. In another chapter willbe found a brief history of the nearly two thousand milesof good roads in Jamaica, together with an account of theexpenditure thereon and cost of keeping them in British Administration spends on an average annuallyfor roads in Jamaica about $500,000. Without underestim-ating the strategical importance of a central railway fromeast to west in Cuba the immediate returns to the popula-tion from good roads would be far in excess of the more pre-tentious enterpri
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