Selling Latin America

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Identifikator:: 82998786X

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-41040

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Auspitz, Rudolf

Title:: Untersuchungen über die Theorie des Preises

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Duncker & Humblot

Year of publication:: 1889

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XXXI, 555 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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SANTO DOMINGO 179 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

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