Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 101030657X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41609

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Aughinbaugh, William E.

Title:: Selling Latin America

Place of publication:: Boston

Publisher:: Small, Maynard & Company Publishers

Year of publication:: 1915

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 408 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2018

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: XIV. Cuba

Collection:: Economics Books

CUBA 171 Cuba has 2360 miles of steam railways, over 200 miles of electric systems, and 1246 miles of excellent macadamized roads, which are probably unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and are ideal for automobiling, being over six teen feet wide. Most of the rivers of Cuba are short, with currents too swift for navigation. Some of them can be used for short distances by shal low draft boats, a favorite means of getting sugar to ports. The Cauto is navigable for 30 miles and the Sagua la Grande for 20 miles. Sugar is king in Cuba, the 1914 crop being worth $240,000,000, with only 4 per cent, of the available soil under cultivation, and but 172 estates growing and grinding cane. Tobacco ranks next in importance, the an nual production averaging $32,000,000. This industry is centered in the Province of Pinar del Rio which grows the famous Vuelta Abajo leaf. Much of this tobacco is made into cigars and cigarettes in the country, the local factories exporting in 1913 $13,878,436 worth

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