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"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1914, by the Munson Steamship Line 



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Volume XII 



APRIL. 1914 



Number 



CUBAN GOVERNMENT MATTERS 



A SPLENDID SHOWING OF CUBa's GROWTH THE PRESIDENT'S 



MESSAGE HOUSES FOR WORKMEN 



The new Congress met in 

 President's session on April 6th. The 

 Message old Congress did not ad- 

 journ and this prevented 

 the arrest of several indicted congressmen. 

 President Menocal in his message to 

 Congress said that Cuba is now passing- 

 through an abnormal commercial situation 

 due to the changes in the American tariff. 

 He announced that the government was 

 negotiating parcel post treaties with the 

 United States, England and Italy and com- 

 mercial treaties with \'enezuela and Chile. 

 The President calls attention to the fact 

 that the treaty with the United States for 

 naval stations at Guantanamo and Bahia 

 Honda had not been confirmed. He recom- 

 mended the purchase of two new warships 

 for the navy. 



A recent report issued by 



Cuba's the Cuban Department of 



Grozving Agriculture shows that the 



Prosperity total foreign commerce of 



Cuba is over $300,000,000. 



Exports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 



1913, were $165,000,000: imports for the 



same period, $132,336,932. 



Some of the leading features presented 

 are as follows : 



Cuba's annual sugar crop exceeds $120,- 

 000,000. Her tobacco yield is valued at 

 $32,000,000. Although the groves are young, 

 citrus fruits and vegetables produce $10,- 

 000,000 annually. Pineapples, cacao, honey, 

 asphalt, iron, henequen, mahogany, cedar, 

 etc., yield $10,000,000. Exports have in- 

 creased in ten years 140 per cent. Imports 

 have increased in ten years 82 per cent. 

 All but 15 per cent of Cuba's exports ($165,- 

 000,000) go to the United States. 'More 

 than half of Cuba's imports ($132,000,000) 



come from the United States. Since the 

 beginning of the republic (1902) Cuba's 

 foreign commerce has increased 250 per 

 cent. Cuba has 1,246 miles of magnificent 

 shaded auto roads or driveways. Range of 

 temperature (mean) 12 degrees, F. Jan- 

 uary average, 70.3 degrees: July, S2.4 de- 

 grees : extremes 60 to 92. Avera'ge rainfall 

 tifty-four inches — dry in winter: showers 

 in summer. Population, 2,500,000. Yearly 

 increase about 75,000. Excess of births 

 over deaths 40,000. Average yearly im- 

 migration 37.000. Seventy per cent of the 

 nopulation is white, 30 per cent colored. 

 Permanent schools 4,011, teachers 4,111. 

 There are 2,360 miles of railroads in Cuba, 

 with 200 miles of electric railways. Twenty- 

 two steamers a week to the United States. 



Experiment 

 Station 

 Changes 



The Cuban government, 

 through the Department of 

 Agriculture, has secured 

 the services of Noel Deerr, 

 a noted sugar expert from 

 Hawaii, as instructor to Cuban sugar cane 

 growers. 



His principal work will be in connection 

 with the agricultural experiment stations 

 although grinders and growers can have the 

 benefit of his services. They have been 

 notified that he can be consulted independ- 

 ent of government work. He will receive 

 a salarv of $5,000 a vear. 



The sum of $220,000 has been appro- 

 priated for public works in Oriente Prov- 

 ince. 



The money will be expended in making 

 new roads and repairing old ones, in build- 

 ing aqueducts, abatoirs and bridges. 



