Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-07-18

rum, 2S4.375 cwt. OF raw sugar, AZ SOC
tons Of logwood, and 3S.S2S cwt. d
pimento. The total value of the ex
ports of 1S0T-99 WIS l 449 Az opuIds
sterling and of the imports 1.6C0. G67
pounds sterling. The imports included
332,c31 cwT. of bread and Biscuits
1898 cwt. of butter and compounds
56.62S tons of coal and coke. 300.401
bushels of corn, 37083 barrels of meal
20S.311 pounds sterling of cotton man
ufactorisS, 11S.612 hundred weight of
dried or sailed fish. 4T.G1G barrels q
flour. 2S,424 pounds sterling of hard
ware cutlery. 50 715 pounds sterling OF
linen manufactures. millinery ard la
berdashery. 9.J00.0O0 feet OF lumber.
$500. 600 pounds of rice and .. 403. 12O
pounds of soap. OF the 1666 G61
pounds sterling valus of importations
in 1898. 7I6,SS9 pounds in value was
from The United Kingdom, 719, 76S
from the United States. 11S 1913 from
British North America. while Of tile
J,44S.443 pounds sterling value of ex-
ports in 1898 313.S:53 pounds went to
the United Kingdom and 9O2,932 to the
United States.
Jamaica was discovered by Column
bus May 3. 1871: aiken possession OF by
the Spaniards in 1909. but taken in
1868 by a British expedition sent out
by Cromwell. which. after an unsUc-
cessful attempt 10 capture the island of
San Domingo. seized Jamaica. which
has since been held by the British gov
eminent. having been ceded to Eng
land in 1870.
The island of Barbados. with
whose government reciprocity treaty
has already been signed, lies en- the
east OF Il chain of islands which
stretches southwardly from Porto Rico
TO the coast of South America. and
which geographers divide into wind
ward and 'Leewarf groups. It's pop
ulation is. according to che Statesmen's
Year Book of 1899, about 10000: it's
area about 1G6 square miles. and the
area under cultivation about 1C6.410
acres. The staple product of the isl
and IS sugar. about 10000 acres being
annually planted with sugar cane
which yielded in 1897 IS. 600 hOgsheads
Of sugar. as against 36.451 in 1893
and 1880 in 1896. There are IA
sugar works and 8 rum distilleries
Sugar is the chief export, though
1,SS0 tons of 'mlnjak' or glance pitch
IA bituminOus petroleum for fuel
was exported in 1897. In the exports
of that year We're 56.397 hoesheads OF
raw sugar. Waited at 2.05S.417: 2.2O3
hogsheads of other sugar. valued at
S120, 42G: 37.432 pUlcheOns Of mo.assas
valued at 41S976; 45,499 qunitals of
dried fish, valued al :S222. SOP. and con-
siderable quantities Of coal, corn. flour
which was apparently imported into
Barbados and distributed thence 10
Others of the West India group The
imports included 1917. 7Gf pounds OF
bread and biscuits, 77O,2SO pounds of
butter and compounds. 1919 tons of
coal and coke 3O4.973 bushels of corn
and other grain, 4G,6SS barrels of IN
dian corn meal. j5.OS9 barrels of flour,
S3.453 quintaIs of dried fish. $221. G2O
value of hardware and metals. $G57.522
of linen and cotton goods, 9.51G.2S1
feet of lumber, 2.S91. 43O pounds OF
sailed or picked meat, 1851, S5S
pounds of oil meal and oil cake. 9,211,-
7S5 pounds of rice; 1.649. 96S slaves and
shocks, the total value of the years
being S4,9OS. S33, OF
which $500, 5T7 came from the
United Kingdom 1923. G45 from North
America. 81 .3G6, 564 from the United
States. and the remainder from British
India. British West Indies British and
Dutch Guiana and Peru. OF the years
exports. which amounted 10 S3.5S2. 53T
IN value. $2.OSO.535 come from the
United States.
Facilities for satisfactory TraEsac-
ton of business include i colonial
bank. with a paid up capital of Co.,
700 pounds sterling, having a circula-
ton of S1.9S5.G97. The chief city, |
has population Of d $50
With three daily papers. two weekly, /
two bi-weekly and two monthly |
newspapers. The registered shipping /
If 1891 consisted of forty-nine sailing |
vessels and two steamers; total ton
rage 1,105 tons net. There are upon /
he island twenty-four miles Of rail |
Dad, 40 miles of wagon road. twenty
our miles of telegraph lines. thirty
i've miles of police telephone lines and
100 miles of private telephone line.
which supplies 4OG services. Barba-
iOes is station of the West Indian
nd Panama Telegraph company. It's
is:ance from New York is $50 miles.
rom Porto Rico, 449 and from Liver
,Ool, 3.105 miles.
SUICIDE AT TUCSON.
Mining Engineer Made Desponde1t
by Drink