The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-26

| square mile, and varied from 153 per
! square mile in Habana to in Puerto
| Prlnclpe. The urban population of Cuba,
including cities of 1000 each, is All per
cent, the same as that of the United
| States. As to sex, the proportions were,
5IS per cent males and 1872 per cent
ably due to immigration. As to race,
there We're IS per cent white and 80 per
cent colored, and the colored population
mas for many years been diminishing.
The foreign-born formed 9 per cent of
the total population, which leaves so per
cent as native whites. Three-fourths of
the foreign-born came from Spain, the
remainder chiefly from the United
third of the foreign-born element was
found in Habana. The proportion of
those married was "a per cent of the
populatlon, and of this proportion about
two-thirdS were legally married and
one-third were living together without
marriage. The legally married consti-
tuted only about one-half the proportion
to the population that they do in the
United States. OF the total population
"a per cent were able to read, illiteracy
being greater among the colored than
among the whites, and greater in the
rural districts than in the cities. The
number of Cubans reported as having
gainful occupations was 40 per cent of
the total population, larger percent
age than in either the United States
or in Porto Rico. OF the males. IS per
cent were wage-earners; of the females,
9 per cent. OF the wage-earners, 4S per
cent were employed in agriculture, fish
cries and mining; % per cent in domes-
tic and personal service; Is per cent in
manufactures; 10 per cent in trade and
transportation; and 1 per cent in the
professions.
There were in 1899, 60. III farms, hav-
ing an average size of 143. acres, and
an average cultivated area per farm
OF 13 acres. Only 10 per cent. of the
farm area. and only 8 per cent. of the
total area of the island was under Gull
tivation. MatanzaS and Habana prov
inces are the most highly cultivated
parts of the island. OF the cultivated
area, less than 80 per cent. was owned
by its occupants, the rest being rented;
and So per cent. was occupied by whites
as owners or renters, only IL per cent.
by cOlOred, the remainder being I'M
known. Measured by the areas under
cultivation, sugar cane occupied Al per
cent of the cultivated lands; sweet po-
bananas, a little less than per cent;
santa Clara and Matanzas produced
nearly three-fourths of the sugar crop,
Santiago about one-sixth, and Habana
about one-sixteenth. Three-fourths OF
the entire tobacco crop came from
Pinar del Rio, and nearly all the re-
mainder from Habana and Santa Clara
provinces There We're in Cuba in 1899,
207 sugar mills, or centrals producing
daily 61,407 bags of sugar There We're
also IS stills, with a daily capacity of
161, 751 gallons. Coffee was once an i'm
portant Cuban product; but little is
now produced, that little coming from
the provinces of Santiago and Santa
Clara
The Gazetteer is illustrated by maps
and plates showing distribution of pop |
ulation and products.
The Gazetteer proper consists OF !
about 100 pages of names of localities, |
mountains, civil divisions, etc. |
with appropriate descriptions and def |
may be illustrated by the |
following: ''Habana; the capital and |
chief city of Cuba. 1t is situated upon |
the western shore of Habana harbor. |
one of those curious pouch-shaped har- |
bors so common upon the Cuban coast. |
The population in 1899 was So, 981, max |
ing it by far the largest city of the |
island. OF the population, males are in |
excess to the extent of 5 per cent AS
to race and nativity, 40 per cent, or a
trif1e less than ofie-half, are native
whites. The proportion of foreign born
was no less than % per cent, while that
of colored was % per cent The foreign
born were composed in a large proper
ton of persons of Spanish blood. The
water supply of Habana4 is derived
from the springs of Vento, nine miles
distant, the water being brought to the
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