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 . avana, and thirty miles fromthe north and forty from the south coast. Its location ishigh, and a fine grazing country surrounds it. Minerals alsoabound, and ten thousand tons of a fine asphaltum havebeen shipped in a year. Silver yielding as much as $200 perton has been found, but the mines have not been of natural gas are present near the town. SantaClara has wide streets, and despite its
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 . avana, and thirty miles fromthe north and forty from the south coast. Its location ishigh, and a fine grazing country surrounds it. Minerals alsoabound, and ten thousand tons of a fine asphaltum havebeen shipped in a year. Silver yielding as much as $200 perton has been found, but the mines have not been of natural gas are present near the town. SantaClara has wide streets, and despite its healthful location,it is, by reason of poor or no sanitary regulations, an un-healthful place, though there is never any yellow fever. The capital of the province of Santiago de Cuba is Santi-ago de Cuba, generally known as Cuba to the natives andSantiago to foreigners. Owing to its war record it is thebest-known town in the Island. It is situated on the southcoast, one hundred miles from the west end of Cuba, andits harbour is one of the safest and finest in the world,having an opening into the sea only one hundred and eightyyards in width, extending back six miles into a beautiful. Cities and Towns of Cuba 129 bay, three miles wide at its greatest width. Santiago has apopulation of forty thousand (estimated sixty thousand in1895), and is the second oldest city in Cuba, the capitalhaving been removed thither from Baracoa in 1514 by Vel-asquez. It is historically the most interesting city inCuba, and it promises to be for the future second in im-portance to none in the Island, except Havana. It be-came a bishopric as early as 1527 and is now the metropolisof the Catholic Church in Cuba, the Archbishop of Santiagobeing the Primate. The celebrations of church festivals areconducted with ceremonies more elaborate than those any-where else in the Island, and the cathedral, in the Hispano-American style, is the largest in Cuba, if not the is said that in a Santiago th
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