Arizona republican., 1902-03-07
As indications mn1tinlv that leeisla-


 As indications multiply that lesisla- ton affecting Cuba is to be the chief problem before the A NEW WORK Fifty-seventh con OF INTEREST gress. public interest ON CUBA. in the affairs of that
 island is revived. ''-rhe Gazetteer of Cuba" just prepared by MT. Henry Gannett. of the geolog- ical survey, is. therefore. timely pub lication. Much information of value has been gathered.
 As is well known. Cuba is the larg- est and, despite the ravages of the war. the most pcpulous of the West Indian islands. From Cape Maisi. on the east, to Cape San Antonio, on the west, is 7So miles. It is 100 miles wide in the eastern part of the island. but the dis taEce shrinks to twenty-five miles in the neighborhood of Havana. Inciud- ing the Isle of Pines and the neighbor- ing keys, it aggregates approximately 5000 square miles. The eastern end cf the island is rough and even noun tainons, and the coasts north and south are high and rocky. The middle por- ton of the island, including the prov inces Cf FIabana. Matanz.s. santa Clara and Puerto Principe. consists O: broad. undulating plains and shallow valleys. Throughout Pinar del R.o province. in the west. parallel to the coasts. runs a watershed. the Organ mountains. exceeding POGO feet. whose southwayd slopes form the celebrated yuelta Abajo tobacco land. The rivers are numerous but short. The Cauta. in Santiago. the eastern province, j. aayigable for only fifty miles. The interior of the island depends upon 1 iC0 miles of railway and pcor Wago. roads for intercommunication. The mineral resources of the island. so far as developed consist almost entirely of hematite iron ere. which has been mined for many years at the south base of the Sierra Maestro. a few miles oasl Of Santiago. Nearly all the ore. which contains about @ per cent of iron. is shipped to the United States. Copper, scld and silver have been mined, and asphaltum is also found.
 Cuba has what is called simple climate. The northeast trade wines bring dfty-two inches Of rainfall to the northern slopes of the island be- tween May and October; that in the south is less. but sufficient The an- nual mean temperature at Habana is v degrees. The population in 1887 was 1.631, ,6S7, while that in 1899 was given at 1872. 7s7, the loss of life due to the war being placed at 2o0.O00 Curfously enough, the urban population. that re- siding in cities Of 1,000 and upward. is 471 per cent, or the same as in the of males and 4S.2 per cent of females in the population. and GS per cent ar" whites and 9 per cent coiored. The cclcred population is decreasing. Only 9 per cent of the population is foreign hcl'u. and three-fourths of this comes from Spain. of the population 34 per cent can read. i!iterates being most numerous in the country districts. Forty per cent of the population have gaiaccl occupations. and of the inalrs eS per cent are Waso-earners; of th- females. 9 per cent Ot the Wage-oarn- CTS IS per cent are employed in agri- culture. fisheries and mining. 2a rar cent in domestic and personal s-rvic-. T. per cent in manufactures. iS per cent in trade and transportation. and 1 per cent in tho professions.
 There Were sell farms in 1>a1 of au average size of 1fS acres, but only thlr- ten acres Der farm were cultivated. Only 10 Der cent of the farm ana onl, 3 per cent of the total area is under cultivation. Of the area under cuIti- walton sugar cane took up lI per cent, sweet potatoes II per cent and tobacco and bananas per cent each. Sants Clara and Natanzas produced nearly three-fourths of the sugar crcp. san ti4so about one-<ixth and Habana about one-stXteeuth. Three-rourths Of the entire tobacco crop came from Pinar del Rio and nearly all the r4- maindsr from Ha5ana and Santa Clara