The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-08-14

has transformed the Industrial school, established BY
General Wood at Santiago de las Vegas into an az
reultuFa experiment station, appropTIatlng st09ou
therefor Frank s. Earle, agricultural expert at
tached TO the department Of agriculture OF the Unit
ed States has been engaged to organize airecs ana
manage this institution II IS divided into slN se
toRs: General agriculture animal industry, inelud-
ing veterinary sciences horticulture; biology; chem
ical and physical condition of the soil; botany and
vegetable pathology including entomology. Such
school greatly desired during the American adj
minstration and it is very commendable in the OH
Gals of the republic to have undertaken the
project The value OF the experiments conducted at
these stations is unquestonable. especially when
country is so wholly dependent upon It's soil as Cuo
BALANCE IN CUBAN TREASURY.
The statement that there is a surplus of 100000
in the Cuban treasury is untrue. An Official report
from the department of finance, covering the hrst
three months of the present calendar year gives me
cash treasury 81 $50 01436 This balance csVers
appropriations already granted some by special laws
and others left by the military government the re-
turn of unduy placed in the treasury; and the
interest on the debt contracted for paying the
all of which make total of S54s302LSz leaving
therefore. an actual balance Of Sl,i6S,99254 When
the American government withdrey from Cuba, there
was turned to the officials of the new republic
$685. 7eS9. While the cash in the treasury has IN
creased since that time there has been correspond
ing decrease in expenditures. During the American
occupation the island had to house an army, at one
time of about 10000 Vast sums were spent IN
sanitation in building roads and bridges ana osher
pubic works The most of this heavy outlay OF mon
ey of such nature that it only had 10 be made
once thus the increase in the cash balance since that
time easily accounted This statement ID NOT
made to comment favoraD5E upon the American al
ministraton, the administration of President Es-
trada Palma; it is merely recital of fact
The changes in the Cuban tariff law have
gone into effect. An increase of from 20 to so per
cent is being levied almost everything Many ar
ticles. which heretofore relatively cheap in
Cuba, no longer be had at low price. For in
stance linen has always been within the reach OF the
moderate purse but is now 10 per cent higher; also
silk carpets. laces, wooden goods etc Cottons have
20 per cent Increase while gold precious stones jew
elry silver articles vegetable hbres timber, sewing
machines carriages horses, mules etc. have 30 per
cent increase; boots shoes, pianos, watches, -four
fruits, coffee etc, carry increase of 80 per cent
Practically every article in general is Included
in this increase but it thought that the reciprocity
treaty neutrazes any hardship arising from the ap
parent increase in cost Of living though it IS not
to how the iaboFng man derives special benefit
therefFom-
The matter of coffee alone is hard proposition.
Heretofore in Cuba too poor 10 have
coffee 1t is the life of the people, and the island is
yet long way from producing sufficient for home
consumption 1t requires several years to make cOf
fee trees profitable hence the capital that is being
invested in the island is going into something which
insUreS quicker returns IL is a question Tor the
political economist to decide how the Cuban laborer
is to his coffee with 80 per cent increase of
duty
EFFECT ON AMERICAN TRADE.
The report for The first quarter since the recproc-
ty treaty went into effect. shows pereeptible in
in the volume of trade with the United States
However this is not to be wondered at, because the
European merchants, knowing that the treaty
an accomplished fact made special EFFORTS stock
the Cuban markets with their goods and to supply
everything necessary for consumption for at least
year to Therefore the American manufacturer
had no opportunity to sell his goods, because there
was absolutely no demand for them. This over
stocking method is usually resoTted to by those who
expect to be affected by change of tariff. As
as these surplus stocks begin to give out the Yankee
drummer viii have busy time in Cuba