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 . ,110,946 2,881,095 All other 820,987 701,656 Total $11,297,198 $23,604,094 The Western Railway of Havana, now in English hands, andrecently extended from Havana to Pinar del Rio, in the heart ofthe finest tobacco region of the Island, has called largely uponthe United States for its new work. Many hundred feet of ironbridging were furnished and erected by the Union Bridge Com-pany of New York, the railway
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 . ,110,946 2,881,095 All other 820,987 701,656 Total $11,297,198 $23,604,094 The Western Railway of Havana, now in English hands, andrecently extended from Havana to Pinar del Rio, in the heart ofthe finest tobacco region of the Island, has called largely uponthe United States for its new work. Many hundred feet of ironbridging were furnished and erected by the Union Bridge Com-pany of New York, the railway company being satisfied with theprice, and their engineer, as well as the government inspectors,satisfied with the work. The cement used was also wholly orlargely American, the American being adopted rather than theEnglish, somewhat reluctantly, by their engineer, on account ofthe greatly reduced cost. The stone used for bridge-seats wasAmerican granite, and highly praised to me by the engineer, who,being a Scotchman, was naturally a good judge of the fact merits attention, in estimating the value of the Cubanmarket, that the people are heavy buyers. There is very little. Commerce 277 saving practised. I do not think there is a single savings bankon the Island. ... As a rule, all the money received isfreely spent, particularly by the poorer and middle classes, who,of course, form the bulk of the population. Probably the per-nicious system of government lotteries has something to do withthe absence of saving, as the practice of purchasing tickets is aswidespread among the poor as it is destructive and , too, the character of the climate and the consequentease of living prevent people from devoting much forethought toa future that they do not dread, for there is really very little ofthat pinching want ever felt in Cuba which recent hard timeshave brought to notice in our own country. Be the cause whatit may, the fact remains that all the Cubans a
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