Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1904-02-25
MET MEXICO MEN.
EDITOR WHITE SEES HOME.
FOLKS WITH THEIR FAMI-
LIES IN HAVANA.
DESCRIBES THE ISLAND OF CUBA.
Also Has Further Say About Paved
Streets Cuba Knows Nothing
About Intense Heat Exper-
fenced in the States
Every Sum-
mer.
DESCRIBES THE ISLAND OF CUBA.

Editorial Correspondence Of the Ledger.
HAVANA, CUBA, February live
had the pleasure this mnrning Of meet
Ing Jacob schDpp, wife and two daugh.
ters, and Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Carter
Of Mexico, on the pradn. The Mexico
people are all well aud having de.
iighifui time.
Tourists are here from all parts OF
the world, and say that during the
winter Cuba is the most popular resort
In the world.
In former letter wrote Of Hava-
ma, and will now refer briefly to the
island Of Cuba as a whole.
The island Of Cuba, the largest and
most westerly of the Antilles archipel.
lego, is situated in the Torrid Zone,
between North and South America,
at the entrance Of the Gulf Of Mexico.
The island is more than seven hun
dred miles long and varies In width
from thirty to one hundred miles.
Cuba is generally mountainous, al
though vast, tracts Of level ground and
fertile valleys exist. such as the Yu.
muri, rivaling the Yosemite valley In
California, and the San Luis, famous
for the important sugar plantations
situated there There are many rivers
but owing to the narrowness az the
island and the undulatinp lands thew
are generally short The longest is
the Canton in santa clara nrovinca
which il ia, miles long The climate
on the island IL surnrisinolv del,ohtfp1
To an American who has never visited
the tronics II wonld naturally seam
that the heat wopld he intolerahle
but the fact ia. that Cuha knows noth.
ino of the intense heat exnerienced in
the rJnited states ayerv summer pha
highest temperat,,re ever known there
Is ninety degrees and tho Iowast "a
sixty degrees Surh a thing as sun-
stroke ls unheard of ON the island
Cuba ID essentially an agricultural
country. with climate soil and lo-
cation that will inevitabIv maize n
the richest island In the world Its
area is annroxlmatelv fortv.tbraa
thousand SQUARE miles or about the
same as the State Of Pennsylvania
Al least twenty million acres Of this
terrttory "a sllsceptible Of epltivat,on.
and vet at the present, time less than
one million acres are in cultivation.
Her population Is only about a million
and half. although she ia undoubt-
edly capable Of sunnortiny fen million
people A combination Of causes has
copspired 10 produce this dearth Of
population in Cuba. first and foremost
Of which was the long and tvrannical
rule of a governments which did ALI in
its mower to discourage Immigration
of the hest classes and to impede pros-
perity of the inhabitants A second
cause was the lack of general sanita-
,tion A third cause for the lack of
any considerable immigration To the
island was the Ignorance as TO her
climate and resources These three
causes have been removed and all
over the world. especiallvi the limited
States interest, is being ranidlv away
ened in Cuba and the peonle are t,,rn-
inc their attention to that vast do.
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