The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-21

New York. June 20.-(Special)-
 Forty thousand citizens of the United
 States have just been identified as in-
 vestors in some of the resources or in
 the transportation facilities of Cuba.
 These figures are not guess work.
 They have been secured by investiga-
 tion and are reliable. However, they
 do not represent the total individual
 investments by Americans in Cuba.
 The belief is held by those who made
 the investigation that there are twice
 as many individual American investors
 in Cuba as the known number of in-
 vestors of American capital.
 Cuba and Mexico will probably off,
 fer the more tempting inducements to
 American capital for investment fl
 natural resources and transportation
 than any other nation will be able to
 do. And there seems to be no doubt
 that if the administration which is to
 be chosen at the next presidential elec-
 tion, whether it be republican or demo-
 cratic, gives promise to aiding Ameri- cans so far as governmental aid can be properly secured. in investing in the nearest of the republics to the United States then we should see earl,
 in 1921 heavy investment of capital both in Mexico and Cuba.
 So much attention has been paid to the demands which have come from Europe for aid and also to our own financial and industrial situation that the people have not realized what the magnitude of our commercial relations with Cuba is. They have understood that the Carranza administration in Mexico has prevented large investment of capital in Mexico. although capital would have been found in abundance Tor such investment had there been cOnflQenCa in tha Stqhi1itv nd ia tv Of the Mexican political institutions. Until some statistics are made pub lie there will not be good understand ing not only in the magnitude of our commercial relations with Cuba, but also of the future high development of certain of the national resources of Mexico to some of which American capital is undoubtedly soon to be in. vested.
 WHAT CUBA BOUGHT OF US Some figures. however, are now available which show that Cuba bought of the United States products and imported them in 1919 in amount which measured in dollars. is somewhat in excess of $240.000.o0o. The aggregate imports from all nations with which Cuba traded were of the money value of a little over s300 900, but much the greater part of these commodities VSiC DOuShl III lHC CHitco Notdt%S ohN sent to Cuba.
 On the other hand. her exports were of the money value approximately of $500. 900, ,000. These figures are esti- mated rather than official. Much the greater part of the products of Cuba were exported to the United States There was thereby created a large trade balance in favor of Cuba and this furnishes one of the reasons why lit has been possible to report that prosperity prevails and industrial Cuba has never realized so greatly upon it's products as it has within the past two or three years
 Sir William Van Horne who earned l the unique distinction of having built one of the Canadian Pacific railroads | in almost sub arctic latitude and wh1 afterwards built the chief transporta- I ton line to tropical Cuba. spoke with enthusiasm only few months before his death of the growth of trade rela- tions between the United States and I Cuba, predicting that in time they might become so great as to equal if not surpass our international trade with other countries except. of course with Great Britain. Sir William was presumed to have constructed the Cuban railroad system chiefly for the