SANTO  DOMINGO

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There  are  160  miles  of  railway,  partially
under  government  ownership,  and  250  miles  of
railway  privately  owned  and  used  in  connection ­
  with  the  larger  sugar  estates.
There  exist  exceptional  opportunities  for
cattle  and  goat  raising.  Lumbering  of  hard,
dye  and  cabinet  woods  could  be  profitably  developed. ­
  Gold  is  washed  from  the  rivers  in
small  quantities  and  some  copper,  iron  and  silver ­
  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  exports ­
  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