Arizona republican., 1898-05-09

homie science that free labor is indefi- nitely more productive than slave la bor, and the industrial growth of the United States is an example of the ex- pansion of industry when enterprise is unhampered by the curse of slavery and by foreign political interference Cuba's chief industries were growing in spite of the drain upon her before the present war began, for in 1894 he1 total production of sugar was 1,O54,- PA tons, an increase of 23S. .32O tons over the preceding year.
 The natural resources of Cuba are infinite, one may say, in variety. Ot her area only 10 per cent is under cul- tivation, ' per cent is not reclaimed d and per cent is under forests. Great tracts of land are practically unex- plored. She had in 1894 population of a little more than 1,500,O0O Of these nearly one-third have been starved to death during the present war Cuba could support in plenty a population of 10,O0O,O00. Her forests are stocked with the finest wood in the world-wood several species of which are as hard as ircn, turning the edge of the ax and remaining impar- ishable under water. There are found woods invaluable for the dye industry, ebony, cedar, fustie, lancewood, ma hogany, rosewood, jccuma. acana and many others. There are fifty varie- ties of palm. Her friuts are valuable and little cultivated. The climate is admirably suited fer the olive, and the orange, the lemon. the pineapple and the banana are indigenous.
 The mineral resources Of the island are great, yet the mineral industries are in their infancy. Almost all the metals are found in Cuba. There are gold. silver, mercury, copper, lead and al 1the forms Of asphaltum, antimony, magnesia, copperas, gypsum, red lead, ochre, salt, arsenic, tale, and many others. Copper is abundant in all the metamorphic rocks Of Cuba. It is true that coal is yet undiscovered, but under a free republic capital would flow into the island and there is no doubt that true coal would be found to replace the bitumen that is now used and which is found in springs and mines in great quantities.
 Cuba is rich in marble, awaiting the capital of the speculator. Great de- posits of this rock are found. and in the Isle of Pines there is marble of a quality as fine as the best of that ma terial used by the sculptor. Beauti- fully colcrad marble and jasper are common. On the coasts are immense deposits of rock salt, and there are also unlimited quantities Of lhe purest white sand, capable of being converted into fine earthenware. Even the H. lustrious Humboldt was amazed at the richness and variety Of the min eral wealth of Cuba How much of this wealth has been utilized may be gathered from the fact that at the end of 1891 the total number of mining titles issusd in Santiago district was 296 Of these 13S were iron, eighty eight manganese and fifty-three cop per.
 As a pastoral country Cuba wa;
 more productive a century ago thar
 she is now, but her pastures are Droal and rich and the possibilities are un-
 limited Cuba, with her grand nat ural pastures, was just beginning tf raise Durham and Devonshire stocl when the ten-year war desolated tht country and put a stop to the industry The millions of acres of free land il Cuba are ready for the agriculturist the cattle, sheep and hog raiser. th' cotton and fruit grower, the miner ant the reducing plant, and even for tn silk grower and manufacturer. Th'
 mulberry tree grows to perfection II the island Silk worms, according tt
 Dr. Auber, are more prolific and pro
 ductive in Cuba than in any etbel country on the face of the globe. Herr is a land prepared to yield up utilities that will add imme asurably to the hap
 piness of the world; awaiting tc bios som into a garden and swarm witt population; to develop almost ever, art of peace; to be converted into al industrial microcosm in the macro cosm of the world at large. Cuba il
 waiting the hour when the capitalist assured of peace and uninterruptet
 growth, may safely enter and reap th' harvest which nature has prepared fo man in the misruled, throttled ant neglected Pearl of the Antilles.