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There are 160 miles of railway, partially 
under government ownership, and 250 miles of 
railway privately owned and used in connec 
tion with the larger sugar estates. 
There exist exceptional opportunities for 
cattle and goat raising. Lumbering of hard, 
dye and cabinet woods could be profitably de 
veloped. Gold is washed from the rivers in 
small quantities and some copper, iron and sil 
ver are found. 
Cane is extensively grown throughout the 
island, the amount exported in 1912 being $5,- 
841,357. Cocoa is largely raised, the crop last 
year yielding $4,248,724. Tobacco, coffee, 
beeswax, honey, bananas, lignum-vitae, dye 
woods, mahogany, gums, resins, hides and 
copra form the other leading items of its ex 
ports which in 1913 amounted to $12,385,248. 
In the same period her imports were $8,- 
217,898, consisting of cotton goods valued at 
$2,000,000, iron and steel, $1,400,000, meat 
and butter $660,000, flour $450,000, drugs 
$225,000, paper $125,000, and soap $100,000. 
Last year this country used 16,221,141 pounds