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 . lve miles; Nuftezto La Canoa, twenty-six miles; San Cristobal to Pinar delRio, the South-western Calzada, thirty miles; Pinar del Rioto Colon, fifteen miles. This list includes all the roads inthe Island, except those local outlets before mentioned, ofwhich, though some are really good roads, the most are inbad repair. Of the country roads, known as dirt roads in ourcountry, Cuba has specimens which, but f
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 . lve miles; Nuftezto La Canoa, twenty-six miles; San Cristobal to Pinar delRio, the South-western Calzada, thirty miles; Pinar del Rioto Colon, fifteen miles. This list includes all the roads inthe Island, except those local outlets before mentioned, ofwhich, though some are really good roads, the most are inbad repair. Of the country roads, known as dirt roads in ourcountry, Cuba has specimens which, but for the patientmule, would not for weeks during the rainy season feel theweight of a passenger; and even the mule is barred at is a legend to the effect that once upon a time a mulekicked over a Spanish saint, and, as a penance, he was sentto serve as a beast of travel on Cuban roads. Inasmuch asthe mule was the only possible carrier for these roads, andas the worse the mud the greater would be his penance, itcame to be deemed sacrilege by the pious Spaniards to im-prove the dirt roads of Cuba. Hence their roads are really not roads; they are nothing better. Transportation 353 than unpaved strips of the public domain in its naturalstate; in the wet season they are impassable by reason ofthe mud, and in the dry season are impossible by reason ofthe dust. Travellers who have tried these roads say theyare worse than the yellow fever, because they are morelingering. Of wheeled vehicles on Cuban roads, the heavy, wooden-wheeled, primitive style, slow-going ox- and mule-carts takeprecedence as freighters, and for passenger transportationthe volante (flyer) takes rank of all others. Indeed, noother vehicle would be possible on many of the roads, notonly because modern carriage building has not devised avehicle strong enough to stand the strain, and light enoughto be hauled, but because endurance in any of them for anydistance would be impossible. The volante
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