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 . trations of the Treasury; the cost of administration ofcustom-houses and revenue marine, amounting to $472,370,giving a total for the department of $708, Public instruction fares badly in Cuba. Under this head,it appears, $247, were expended. The largest itemin these expenditures seems to be for the University ofHavana and its educational adjuncts, aggregating $172, The next largest it
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 . trations of the Treasury; the cost of administration ofcustom-houses and revenue marine, amounting to $472,370,giving a total for the department of $708, Public instruction fares badly in Cuba. Under this head,it appears, $247, were expended. The largest itemin these expenditures seems to be for the University ofHavana and its educational adjuncts, aggregating $172, The next largest item is the salary of the Secretaryof Education and the inspectors of primary instruction, etc.,aggregating $58,300. None of the total amount seems togo for common-school education, as it is understood in theUnited States. Under the head of Public Works andCommunications, $1,036, was expended. The pro-portion of this money which goes for salaries is very largeindeed. The largest single item of expenditure is givenunder the rather dubious heading of Communication,and aggregates $417,640. Repairs and care of public build-ings, including rent of buildings, aggregates $79,500; postal. A COCOANUT GROVE. How the Revenue was Spent 263 communication, $114,514. Marine navigation, includingdocks and sheds, lighthouses and buoys, aggregates $98,-058; and the construction of the San Cristobal bridge,$49,000. The care and repair of public roads cost $100,000;in all making the above-mentioned total. The agriculture, industry, and commerce of Cuba, like thepublic instruction, in the broader sense of the word, comesin for a meagre share of the small amount of the totalbudget, which seems to be reserved exclusively for expendi-tures for the benefit of the Home Government. Theaggregate under the title of Agriculture, Industry, andCommerce is $108,, the most of which is used insalaries and expenses for the secretarys office, for whichone-third of the total appropriation is expended. Und
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