Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1898-12-15

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counted, and still less have they been
accurately surveyed. But the best
statistics available yield the following
results as to areas in square miles:
! Cuba, I. -. $4,000
Porto Rico, 1850 {
Hawaiian group, 6,640
The Philippiues,. 114,000
The Sulus, 1000
The Carolines, 1000
Guam in Ladrones, 500
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Total, -. 171,690
Cuba is about the size of New
York, Ohio or Alabama. ..#.l ...
Porto Rico is a little smaller than
Connecticut. ..s...
The Hawaiian Islands are some
what smaller than New Jersey, the
largest island, Hawaii, Icing about
twice the size of Delaware. ..
The Philippines cover land space
about as great as New York aud the
New England States together.
Luzon, on which Manila is situated,
is not much smaller than New York.
ALI the new dependencies together
are about equal in area to the New
England States, New York, Pennsyl-
yania and New jersey.
THE POPULATION.
In annexing lands we annex popu.
lation also. These are as follows:
Cuba .- 100000; 65 per cent
white.
Porto 100000; go per
cent white.
Hawaii--9o,ooo; 25 por cent white.
Philippines - 100000; mostly
Orientals. -..
Sulus, Carolines and Ladrones--
Mainly barbarous.
Roughly, we annex about ten mil
lion people, of whom 90 per cent
belong to more or less inferior races.
RESOURCES OF NEW POSSESSIONS.
The resources of our annexed ter
ritory, like their area and population,
have never been calculated with
accuracy. .
Cuba produces sugar, coffee, TO-
bacco, cocoa, cotton, indigo, rice and
fruits. She has forests rich in rare
woods, and mountains abounding in
iron, coal, copper, marble and pre-
cious stones. The forests and the
mines have been scarcely at all
worked.
Only 10 per cent of the arabic
lands are now under full cultivation.
Seven per cent is wholly unreclaimed,
and 4 per cent of the islands area is
unexplorod forest.
The imports of the islands were
roughly estimated for 1894 at $780,
100000, and the exports at s95, ,OOO,-
900.
Porto Rico'a products are substan.
TALLY the same as those of Cuba. In
1890 the island imported $1S,OOO,-
600 worth of goods and exported
$1O,O0O,0OO,
Hawaiian exports consist almost
wholly of sugar. Its exports amount
to S15,oOO,00O a year, and it's imports
amount to $7,Ooo,oOO.
Tho Philippines produce sugar,
hemp, tobacco and copra. Imports
about 100000 a year.; exports
about $20,000,0O0.
The Sulus produce teak and san
dalwood. No statistics of commerce
exist.
The Carolinos arc inhabited by
Malay fishermen and produce moth
ing of value. The Ladrones are in
like condition.
OUR NEW CLIMATES.
We have also annexed now oli-
mates.
The Philippines, as all travellers
agree, have climate in which man
from the temperate zone can keep
alive only with the greatest difficulty
and can keep well only by never for
getting for an instant to guard his
health.
Malaria is the lot of all who dwell
there. Tropical fevors, tropical
plaques, such as smallpox end lep-
rosy, thrive and prey upou natives
and newcomers.
The Dir is hot'as well aa moist. and
only tho most rigid comers from tenn
perate climates are able to resist the
universal, innate and inoursblo idle.
ness.
OF Hawaii we already know much
IA gorgeous beauty of sky and
earth, paradise in which turks lep-
rosy. ..
In both. these domains the cnly
possible labor that is commercially
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