READY IMMEDIATELY. 



COMMERCIAL CUBA. 



A BOOK FOR BUSINESS MEN. 



With 8 Maps, 7 Plans of Cities, and 40 FulUpage Illustrations. 



By WILLIAM J. CLARK, of the General Electric Company. 



With an Introduction by E. SHERMAN GOULD, M. Am. Soc. C. E. 

 One Volume, Large Octavo, $4.00. 



THE well-nigh limitless field for business enterprises which Cuba offers for United States 

 capital gives this carefully prepared and authoritative work especial timeliness. Mr. 

 Clark, who has been for many years at the head of the Railway Department of the 

 General Electric Company, is recognized as a statistician of exceptional ability, whose word 

 carries great weight. 



The facts which he has packed into this book, the sources of his information being personal 

 observation supplemented by official reports, give an exhaustive picture of the conditions and 

 possibilities of every industry on the island, each town and each industry being critically 

 examined with a view to the outlook for American capital backed by American energy. The 

 chapters deal with social and hygienic questions, legal procedure, political matters, public 

 improvements, railways, both steam and electric, turnpikes and roads, harbor and dock 

 facilities, telegraph, cable, and telephone lines, contract labor, agriculture, mining and man- 

 ufacturing in all of their branches, and a multitude of other subjects of interest to business 

 men who are looking to Cuba as a field for investment or as a market for their goods. 



The maps, plans, and illustrations, together with the commercial directory of the island, 

 in the appendix, emphasize the encyclopedic and exhaustive character of the work. 



SUMMARY OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



How to Meet the Resident of Cuba. 



CHAPTER II. 



The Population — Its Characteristics and 

 Occupations. 



CHAPTER III. 

 Climate and the Preservation of Health. 



CHAPTER IV. 

 Descriptive Geographv. 



CHAPTER V. 



Transportation and Communication. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Currency, Banking, and Government Finance. 



CHAPTER VII. 



The Legal and Administrative Systems of the 



Past and the Future. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 Animal and Vegetable Life. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Sugar and Tobacco. 



CHAPTER X. 



Some General Statistics. 



CHAPTER XI. 



Province of Pinar del Rio. 



CHAPTER XII. 

 The City of Havana. 



CHAPTER XIII. 



Province of Havana. 



(Including the Isle of Pines.) 



CHAPTER XIV. 



Province of Matanzas. 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Province of Santa Clara. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

 Province of Puerto Principe. 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Province of Santiago de Cuba. 



APPENDIX. 



Commercial Directory of the Island 



of Cuba. 



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