Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-10-03
From the Washington Post.

win natural advantages, so lANoraDlN Y
situated for agricultural and CONNER
oial development, although periodical
y devastated by revolution and indif-
felently fostered in time of peace,
was worthy, under the old Spanish ad-
ministration, of being called 1.-THE
Pearl of the Antilles" what might
she become under an administration
guaranteeing permanent peace and
good government and justifylng the
investment of such capital rs may be
necessary to develop the riches of ma
ture that up to the present moment
lave been but half revealed.
Cuba is entirely within the tornd
zone, but not so far south rs to make
IFS climate enthusiastically torrid.
The climate does not differ materially
from our own Gulf states, but the ram
fall is greater. Its insularity insures
q moist, equable atmosphere, and the
ncvcr-failmg sea breezes of the after
Moons aud evenings tend to make the
nights cool and comfortable, even in
the warmcst months
Shaped somewhat like Long Island,
Cuba is long and narrow, being about
$50 miles in length and in width vary
ing from Is to IFS. Its area compris-
Is about $4,000 square miles. ry
way of comparison, II is larger than
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vct-
mont, Connecticut. Rhode Island, Del
aware and New Jersey put together.
The island would make almost four
Marylands aud about two West Vir-
glnias, and is greater in the aggregate
of her square miles than either lndi-
ana, Kentucky, Maine, Ohio, South
Carolina, Tennessee or Virginia. The
state of Pennsylvania has practically
the same area as Cuba. The island
lies 100 miles south of Key West, the
most Soutehrn port of the United
States, Havana is distant from Tam
pa BOG miles; from New Orleans 597
miles; and from New York, l,227
miles. II controls the highway To the
Panama canal.
The last census Of the island, taken
IN 1899, pnt the population al l,572,.
N91, immigration has been steadily
| increasing, the number for 1904 being
! 2O,2l7 a reasonable estimate of the
present population is fixed at l,70O,.
900. or the total population, jS PEI
cent Ner' native whites, per cen,
foreign whites, and - per cent color.
ed. the remaining ! per cent being as.
signed to Chinese and others unclas.
silied, The figures as to the densit,
of The population are significant. They
indicate II population of l53 persons
to the square mile in Havana province
decreasing to but s to the square mil,
in Puerto Principe. Havana province
therefore, Is about as thickly settled
as New York state. and the last named
province about ms much as the state
of Washington. II has been estimated
that Cuba is capable Of supporting
IN comfort and prosperity, n popula.
tion Of at least l5,0OO,OO0. which
would be about $40 to the square mid
or less than the density of the pop
ulatl0n OF Rhode Island or Massachr
setts. The census Of 1880 found Sin
teen cities ON the island having pop
ulatiou Of over 5000. The chief 81
these is Havana. with 23j,0Sl; Santi
ago, second, with 1906; and Guine
n suburb Of Havana, at the bottom or
the list, with S,l49 inhabitants
The total trade between this coun
! try and Cuba during the last fsca
year amounted to Tl32,743,jl9. Dur
| ing that period Cuba sold to the Unit
ed States sugar valued AT $50 O,2OS, ,lIS
and tobacco valued at SlI474,269. hcl
total exports TO this country beins
! rS4,979,SSl. of which all but abou
S2,OOOOOO was dutiabIc and upol
(which the duty collected, according t,
| the department of commerce and la
boris preliminary figures, was S43,
! 92S,6S2, In the same period the Unit
cd States sold to Cuba merchandis,
Iaggrcgating S45,37L27I
The sugar crop of 1904 was l,04O,
! 22O tons; 1908, l,l0O,0O0 tons, and II
experts claim the yield Of Cuban 81
fgar il two and a half tons to the acre
| the total number acres devoted to su