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a ship-load a day was exported from Baracoa. This fruit 

 was the largest and finest of its kind received in the United 

 States. 



Captain John S. Hart of Philadelphia, who had large 

 investments in this business, and was one of the largest 

 importers of the fruit into the United States, finding his 

 business destroyed by the outbreak of the revolution, 

 promptly turned his ships into filibusters, and, after land- 

 ing many cargoes of arms and ammunition, was eventually 

 tried and convicted in a United States court. 



Oranges of delicious flavor grow spontaneously in all 

 parts of the island. No attention has been paid to their 

 culture for exportation, however, since the development of 

 the Florida fruit. Pineapples are grown and exported in 

 western Cuba and the Isle of Pines. The island will un- 

 doubtedly become one of the greatest fruit-growing coun- 

 tries Mahogany, logwood, and fustic are also exported in 

 small quantities. About fifty thousand dollars' worth was 

 exported from Santiago in 1893. 



In the provinces of Santa Clara, Puerto Principe, and 

 Santiago the cattle industry, owing to the fertile grazing- 

 lands, reaches large proportions, the product being large 

 and fine animals of Spanish stock. Horses are also bred 

 in all parts of the island. The Cuban horse is a stout pony, 

 probably descended from Spanish stock, with the build of 

 a cob, and a peculiar pacing gait which renders it exceed- 

 ingly easy to ride. Goats and sheep do not flourish in 

 Cuba, the wool of the latter changing into a stiff hair like 

 that of the former. Poultry flourishes everywhere and is 

 abundant in all markets. 



In addition to the large estates of the planters, the island 

 possesses many small farms of less than one hundred acres, 

 devoted to fruit, market-garden and dairy products, for 

 which there is a local demand. In 1895 there were over 

 one hundred thousand farms, ranches, and plantations, 

 valued at twenty million dollars. 



The developed mineral resources of the island air iron 







