The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-28
FIELDS OPENED BY THE WAR.
Chances For Americans and Investment Opportunities In
X Our New Possessions.

roads are few, and in many parts al
most useless. There are large quanti-
+ ties of pine, mahogany, cedar, Hgnum
vitae, logwood and some 40 more vari-
cites. And this land once cleared makes
a fertile soil for sugar, coffee and
cocoa.
THE mineral deposits of Cuba are
more important than is generally ap-
preciated. But little progress has been
made in exploring the rich deposits
in the east, owing to the heavy duties
/ imposed by the Spanish government.
There are iron mines, manganese, coal,
copper and tin properties. The chances
for a large. corporation to exploit these
properties are excellent, and rich re-
turns can be made by such enterprises.
OF course, in this industry and the
lumber business there would be but
little chance for man with limited
means.
There are numerous other indus
tries: the coffee business is profitable
but it requires three years of waiting
before it yields any return; the cocoa
business and the raising of cattle are
good money makers, and require only
a moderate amount of money upon
which to start. For the man of small
means there are perhaps better OPP
portunities in the raising of fruit, the
cocoanut industry and the regular
lines of trade that are found in every
city of America-the hardware groc-
cry and provision business. The ranks
of retail trade are by no means filled
in most Cuban cities.
Il ought to speak of the climate,
which is, with careful personal pre-
cautions, better than some of the
southern states; of the boom in city
real estate, of the future possibilities
of tourist season in Havana, Mat
anzas and the YUmuri, and of the uni
versatility which the English language
will obtain.
FOR AMBITIOUS YOUNG MEN.
Yes. 1 should most decidedly en-
courage the young man with some
means to go to Cuba, but he must be
strong and self-reliant in character;
he must be ready to overcome difficult
ties; he must have intelligence, ambi-
ton and economy or he will fail in
Cuba as he will anywhere else. That
country will not be a paradise for the
lazy and the careless. The Cubans
will welcome the Americans with open
arms. There is room for many more
people there. and only large additions
of able men will bring out the immense
resources that are now lying dormant
along the whole length of the island.
Mr.. Fidel G. Pierra the former sec
who has been engaged for 80 years in
business enterprises connected with
Cuba, says, by way of advice:
EVERYTHING TO BE DONE.
I'm Cuba almost everything is to be
done. 1t is utterly impossible at this
moment to define the thousand and
one things which it will be necessary
to do and tell the ones which must be
done first. The country is completely
devastated; we do not know what
part of the population will be left to
take up the work of nation building.
Outside of the large cities where the
Spaniards held control, all the small
industries must be re-established. The
commercial machinery xr the supply
OF food, of clothing and of all the first
necessities of life must be started and
at once. The farmhouses, sheds, barns,
and such buildings in more than half
of Cuba have been completely des-
troyed and the work of rebuilding
them Will take a number of years.
Along with this, there will be the
chance of putting in the newer Amer
lean ideas in the lighting of the towns.
the building of the waterworks, the
supplying of modern hardware. and
many kindred enterprises. In all these