The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-31
TRADE WITH CUBA
ITS COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH
 UNITED STATES.
President Palma Expresses His Inter est In StFenGthentng the Ties%-- Weeks Industrial Develop
 ment fn the south.


 Baltimore. March 30.--(Special) )--- President Palma. of the Republic of Cuba, expresses through correspon- dent at Havtana of The Manufacturers Rerord q deep interest in a strength ening of the comnere efal relations be- tween Cuba and the United States. He says -
 dftfon as compared with few years ago We are advancing steadily. But We have only commenced. Dur prog ress viii 6e more marked s,st 5y rqnjtea e19ses States. We have In Cuba wonderful opportunities m every conceivable line deenIv soliclfous that these conditions Dc made manifest to the enterprising citizens of the United States. Money ,s na,g giss s,s GOO 600 to the soldiers of the revolution and there is surplus of many millions Of dollars al this time m the snr,r treasa,sy ng nanatr4es man 0 of aI
 The correspondent noting the large number of American tourists, investors.
 sis ssThs island is fast becoming Ameri- caufzed and within the next few gen erations the English language will De in as general use as in an American ctty Havana, the capital cdty, has many singularly attractive features It's water supply system handles the output of 406 springs purified by nat ural filtre ton, and it's pumping ap- paratus is of the most modern char acter Many visitors are here from every State in the Union, wirh New York in the lead. Not few have come to Cuba for q mere visit, put nave hec0ne permanent settlers.
 Millions of dollars of real estate in Havana province alone has passed into the hands of Americanss ana iti evefv part of the island There are abaut l,600 miles of railroad Tn Cun<h British Spanish, American and Cuban capital being the working factor the first named predominating heavily. The Cuba Railroad, the United Railways and inc Cuban Central Railway. to- gether with the electric railway sysI aSI without exception vie with each etner in the progress of road-bed improve n1entsi aoing pgsesssaTies sseeE sii aeneraiiy f
 '.Electric lighting and power plants and water works system are being eagerly sought for by Cuban munlei. production and of sugar manuIacturss ing, necessitating the installation ot notable feature of industrial develop ment, while fruit and vegetable grew CTS look upon the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key west. only ninety miles from Havana, as the means of increasing their busi- ness with interior points in the United
 .sThe Cuban railways are assisting this movement by rapidly opening up the interior of the provinces. Fuel IS scarce and for manufacturing and oth- CT purposes coal is. imported. Timber in certain portions of the island is still plentiful and the clearing of lands Tor sich places as Puerto PrinciT c, for in-- stance will mean tho exploitation or timber now standing" ,,-.
 m many sections of the Piedmont south great progres has been made in recent years in the development Tor industry of great water powers. one of the pioneer developments or the Kind was in the Chattahcochie river and on their recent trip to Columbus, mem bers of Congress were informed that within a year 5000 more horse power from the river was to be made avail able and that 2S,000 new horsepower would be given through further deVel- opYtaent in the near future.
 Announcement is made in this week s issue of the Manufacturers Record or the financing at Columbus of the plan looking to this development involving fae consolidation Of the various water powers along the Chattahoochte. giY- ing an aggregate Of 75,000 horse-poW- CT to be transmitted electrically, An other undertaking of the kind with It's headquarters at Emporia Va involves the building of 36-foot dam m the Meherrin river and installing machm- ery for the development of 4,0OO horse power which will be transmitted Dy electricity for light and power pur- poses, while Pulaski. in the southwest ern part of the same State, has engag-- ed an engineer to investigate adjacent water sites with view to establishing q water-power electric plant for light ing the city and opera ting the water pumping station
 Exploitation of divers minerals of the South steadily advances, petroleum in Texas, Louisiana, West Virginia and Kentucky, coal in West Virginia, Ken lucky. Alabama. Tennessee and Ar kansas, with announcements Of the week including developments of copper properties in Watauga County, N. C., of iron deposits near LIano. Texas and