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 . of the other WestIndian islands, it may be safely predicted that the prosper-ity which is promised for Cuba, and which is sure to comesoon, will raise the Cuban silver mines to their formerproductiveness. Lead. This metal, reported to exist in several localities,has had no development save in Santiago de Cuba, wheretwo or three mines have been opened. One of them showsa twenty-inch vein, forty-six per cent
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 . of the other WestIndian islands, it may be safely predicted that the prosper-ity which is promised for Cuba, and which is sure to comesoon, will raise the Cuban silver mines to their formerproductiveness. Lead. This metal, reported to exist in several localities,has had no development save in Santiago de Cuba, wheretwo or three mines have been opened. One of them showsa twenty-inch vein, forty-six per cent, copper, with somesilver and zinc and a trace of gold. The mines so far havebeen opened by American boomers for the purpose ofbringing the properties into notice. Coal. A serious deficiency in Cuban products is mineralfuel; and although coal is said to exist and, again, said notto exist on the Island, Mr. Frederick W. Ramsden, lateBritish Consul at Santiago, made the following report in1895: A deposit of coal has been found at five leagues of the DosCaminos railway station, or about fifteen leagues north-north-westof Santiago. A sample sent to the United States analysed asfollows :. ?«/ ^ :, Pi r VF- ORE BANK OF JURAQUA MINES. Mines and Mining 327 Per Cent. Remarks. Moisture Specific gravity Volatile combustible One cubic yard weighs 2303 pounds. Half sulphur Fixed carbon This sample is fairly black, and when pow-dered it contains visible layers of pyritesand no appreciable bitumen. Half sulphur Ash Sulphur I understand, however, that since this sample was taken themines have been partially opened up and a better class of coalfound lower down. No estimate has been formed as to thequantity of coal there, as no investigations have so far been madewith this object. I am informed, however, that the geologicalformation is favourable. Some of the coal reported in other sections of the Islandproves to be either a lignite or a hardened b
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