174 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE.
The Haitian Government has granted several valuable concessions
lo a syndicate of capitalists, principally Germans. These concessions
 have not met with the success that was expected up to the
present time, entirely owing to the unsettled condition of affairs and
the vacillation in exchange. Under proper conditions and with
exchange reduced to a normal rate, all of these concessions will be
found to be very valuable.
The Central Ratlroad Co. of Haiti, general office, No. 25 Broad
Street, New York City, holds the different concessions enumerated
below :
(1) Le Compagnie d’Eclairage Electrique de la Ville de Port-au-Prince
 et de Cap Haitien; capital stock, $250,000; 6 per cent obligations,
 $500,000. All of the securities are owned by the Central Railroad
 Co. of Haiti.
This company owns and operates the electric lighting plants at
Port au Frince and Cape Haitien under a 50-year concession, from
1907, granting the exclusive right of electric lighting in the
two cities above mentioned. The modern and substantial power
houses in both cities were completed in 1911 and have been in full
operation ever since. By its contract with the electric lighting company
 the Republic of Haiti is obliged to pay, during the entire life
of the concession, at the rate of 75 cents, American gold, per night
for 825 arc lights in the cities of Port au Prince and Cape Hamtien,
which number has been increased to 375 recently by an additional
contract made with the Government. This produces a gross earning
for public lighting alone of over $102,000 gold per annum, which 1s
assured to the company by the harbor dues of Port au Prince and
Cape Haitien, pledged therefor and collected for the company by
the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti.
Many of the private dwellings have the incandescent lighting systems,
 and the demand continues to increase. This is an augmentation
 to the revenue of the company.
(2) La Compagnie Haitienne du Wharf de Port-au-Prince; capital
 stock, $600,000; 30-year 6 per cent mortgage. bonds, $357,000.
The company has also issued promissory notes to the Central Railroad
 Co. of Haiti covering the excess cost of constructing the wharf
to the amount of $233,000. All of the bonds and notes, as well as
two-thirds of the capital stock, are owned by the Central Railroad
Co. of Haiti.
This company owns and operates the wharf at Port au Prince
under a 50-year Government concession, dated from 1907, which
grants exceptional privileges to the company, consisting of the collection
 of a fixed change of $1 gold per ton on all goods imported or
exported at Port au Prince, whether the facilities of the wharf are
used or not. This charge is collected by the company direct from
the owner of the vessel or the agents. A collection also for transportation
 charges for handling all outgoing and incoming goods
passing over the wharf to and from the customhouse. These charges
are paid by the merchant shinning or receiving the goods.
The wharf was built by the Empire Engineering Corporation, of
New York. The main construction was completed about 1910. It is
of concrete reinforced with steel. Its length is nearly one-half mile;
the outer end is 60 feet wide, and has a substantial iron warehouse
about 700 feet long, with a storage capacity of 36,000 square feet,