The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1898-07-02
RE0ENERATEo CUBA.
A Fertile Field that, with Cultivation,
Would Yield Many Fortunes.

% these Its geographical position. II
we have the factors of a glorious prod
Jet. 1t Is within easy reach of New Or
leans and other large markets of the
United States. Transportation is cheap.
The United States and Cuba are recip-
rocal In productions. We find there a
ready market for manufactured goods.
and the island sends us sugar, bananas
and other tropical productions.
Cuba Is the largest sugar producer in
the world. The Constancia plantation
near Clenfuegos produced, according to
the last Cuban census, 45,000,000
pounds In a year. With American en-
ergy and enterprise the island could be
made to produce 100000 tons easily.
There would be heavy competition
among experts in the production of
sugar. These lands would be %scientif-
ically cultivated, and the cane reduced
by the diffusion process. This Is u
sleeping process. The cane, finely
chopped up. Is placed In large Iron cyl
inders and submitted to the same proc
ess as tea In the housewives teapot.
Thus there Is not more than one-half
of l per cent. of saccharine lost.
Cuba Will be n market for sugar
making machinery, agricultural ma
chinery, electric light appliances, rail-
road supplies, wooden ware, etc. In
fact, there will be a ready and CON
stantly increasing market for all our
productions, from clothes TO catnip.
At present Cuba grows 30,000.000
pounds of tobacco leaf, which opens up
n field for American manufacture. The
D. 900 cocoanuts raised annually
show the need of active and energetic
capital In a cocoanut oil factory. The
2o,00O.000 punches of bananas now
grown yearly can be more than doubled
after political differences have been
settled and the trade of America sets
In. Material Is abundant for the manu-
facture of soap, coarsely fibered cloths
and many kindred Industries. Fruit
farms on an average make large re-
turns after three years. except the
banana, which yields abundantly after
the first year.
On the mountain slopes in the east
ern, central and western parts are the
finest coffee lands In the world. In
1850 there were 500 plantations run
ming AT a large profit. This kept up for
eight years, when the wearing ten
years war ruined them. They were
either devastated or allowed TO decay.
All these will be revived In regenera-
ted Cuba. it requires only small cap
ltal to start Il coffee plantation. A half
crop Is grown the third year., and the
fourth year sees the full yield. 1t pays
from % to 100 per cent. on the capital
invested, which Is much too fascinating
n problem TO remain long unsolyed by
Uncle Sans enterprising family.
The mineral wealth of the island is
incompatible and inexhaustible. The
copper mines are exceedingly rich, and
added capital and energy will develop
them to a much greater degree. The
iron mines are capable of producing
enormous quantities of Bessemer iron
ores These ores are very valuable and
known the world over to manufacturers
as Spanish ores" As time strides on
the smoke of factory chimneys will be
no novel sight In the now paralyzed
island. In n business as well as polit-
Teal sense, Cuba has a wonderful fu-
ture.
Evidence of It's richness ia given by
the fact that Cuba was self-supporting
as early as 1927. Since that time 1t has
prospered steadily and exceedingly. 1t
has paid Spain since 1927 from 81 ,000,-
600 to $6,000,O 600 yearly. II is a country
wonderfully prosperous, and Increases
In prosperity when let alone by its
own and other peoples. 1t has grown
steadily richer despite the fact that It's
per capita taxation Is three times that
of the United States. Now that Spain
must forever keep hands off the little
island, and American thrift will be in
fused into It's slow southern veins, we
shall see great things from it.
The climate of Cuba is in many parts
delightful. Being %insular. the heat of
the Il Is much tempered by cooling
breezes from the surrounding waters.
1t is much more healthy than Is ON
monty supposed, the higher portions be-
Ing comparatively free from the deadly
disease Of some of the lowlands. The
fearful mortality from yellow fever in
Havana Is due almost wholly TO the
horribly unsanitary condition of the
city. The bay is a huge cesspool hat
contains enough germs of all sorts,
kinds and conditions to devastate the
XUnrl1 Thara tc aIpaoGf No fiJa,.-ar L.,
the bay-not more than four inches.
With American capital and American
business ability the drainage of Hav-
II and its consequent improvement in
matters of health are ~foregone con
illusions.
Americans will reap rich financial
haryests In Cuba, whether 1t be an
nexed or not, and in the years not far
distant the population will be largely
American In either case. American
capital viii predominant and American
ideas of government Will obtain. On
account of the right hand of fellowship
now extended by Uncle Sam, Americans
will be welcomed by the Cubans, and
given concessions greater than any
other nation. The relationship between
the countries will be very close. and
the commercial interests of one identi-
cal with those of the other.
On account of its climate Cuba has
great recuperatiye powers. and when
the patriots have beaten the sword into
the plowshare 1t will be but n short
time until all traces of the recent de.