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Bed of the Bayamo River on which Auto-trucks are run to haul Manganese from th&~ 



Hills to Bayamo. 



ancia, and Dolores mines are big producers, the first three being the oldest manganese mines 

 worked successfully in Cuba. 



Daiquiri is the shipping point for the ore of the mines of that name which for many years, 

 have been shipping excellent grade of low phosphorous and sulphur iron ores aggregating many 

 millions of tons. There is storage capacity for 4,000 tons of ore, and ships drawing 24 feet caa 

 dock there. Daiquiri is some 30 kilometres east of the City of Santiago. 



The Juragua mines are somewhat nearer Santiago at Firmeza about 29 kilometers east of 

 Santiago. The shipping point is La Cruz in the Bay of Santiago. A railroad 29 kilometres 

 long connects the mines with the wharf where ships are loaded and the ore taken to American, 

 ports. 



West of Santiago at Cuero Bay a splendid loading device has been installed for rapidly 

 loading ships with the excellent low phosphorous iron ore mined at the Cuero mines. The mines 

 are actively worked and promise a large yield. 



One more mining district has to be mentioned m Oriente Province and that is the Bayamo 

 District. Manganese and copper ores are the important elements of its production. The 

 highest grade of manganese chemical ore comes from the Manuel, Carballon, and Costa mines, 

 near Bueycito, southeast of Bayamo. This district as well as the manganese zone, known as 

 Los Negros, is being actively investigated, and considerable amounts of good grade ore are 

 being shipped by Baire and Santa Rita on the Cuba Company main line, while most of the 

 Bueycito ore is shipped by Julia on the Bayamo-Manzanillo branch, part of the ore being 

 shipped by steamer from Manzanillo, but the bulk of it by rail to vVntilla, and some to Havana,, 

 from which the ore is shipped by the ferry to the States. 



These lines complete a survey of the mming industry m Cuba. Only the most important 

 prospects have been mentioned, and real mines alone have been described or referred to at soma 



