THE CUBA REVIEW 



19 



Jerked Beef 



Iniled States 1,489,762 



.\rsentina 6,829,0i)7 



rruKuav 14,426,820 



Vene/.uela 62,780 



Total 22,808,429 



$174,664 



870,29.") 



1 ,690,034 



10,992 



136,411 



8,744,7()i) 



11,617,423 



$17,089 



r)4o,0o() 



l,r)7."),497 



$2,74(),48r) ir,,498,600 $2,137,642 



Miners at Work. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



BuUcliit of .Vims, \o\ I, Xo. 1.— This pub- 

 lication was prepared liy Si'. Pabio Ortega, 

 mining engineer, and the publication is a re- 

 port of the recently created Bureau of mines 

 which was organized as a bureau under the 

 direction of the Secretary of Agriculture. The 

 bulletin contains a great deal of information 

 which hitherto has not been available be- 

 cause it was in the archives of the Depart- 

 ment in the form of various papers printed in 

 Spanish, French and English. The publica- 

 tion gives a complete statement of the condi- 

 tion of the mining industry prior to 1885, and 

 it gives also a complete statement of the legis- 

 lation i)rior to 1883 affecting the mining in- 

 dustry, and the information is also arranged 

 to cover the mining industry up to December 



31, 1915. There is a valuable digest of the 

 laws of Cuba, which have to do with mining 

 and concessions for mining. The principal 

 mines in operation at the present time are 

 fully described and photographs arc given of 

 the working of these mines. In the statistical 

 section, statements are compiled which give 

 the mining concessions by provinces, prior to 

 1899, and also the same information from 

 1899 to 1915, and the mines and concessions 

 authorized in 1915 are given in a separate 

 table. These tables give the name of the 

 mine, the owner of the concession, the area of 

 the property, the location and date of con- 

 cession and also the class of ore mined. The 

 volume also has a map of the province of 

 Pinar del Rio showing the location of the con- 

 ce,ssions for that province. 



