THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



Santiago Rich in Mineral Deposits.— 

 Mining is one of the principal sources of 

 wealth of the province of Santiago de 

 Cubn. owing to the abundance and ac- 

 cessibility of the minerals. Iron is the 

 most abundant, but cojiper and mangan- 

 ese are found in sutTicient quantities for 

 profitable exploitation. 



Four principal companies are engaged 

 in mining and exploiting minerals. From 

 the mines at Daiquiri 3.5,-,6.i2i tons of 

 ore were produced to December 31, 19-6. 

 The produclion for the year 1906 was 

 510.500 ions. The ore has all been 

 shipped to the United States, except 

 about 75.C00 tons, which went to Eng- 

 land, Germany, Belgium and Cape Bre- 

 ton, Nova Scotia. The Daiquiri ore, 

 which is red hematite, occurs on the 

 hillsides, usually near the top, and the 

 mining is all open-cut work, more in 

 the nature of quarrying, the only under- 

 ground work being the exploration tun- 

 nels. The company- also owns several 

 iron mines on the north coast, in the 

 Mayari Mountains back of Nipe Bay, 

 and is about to commence the construc- 

 tion of a broad gauge railroad from the 

 mines to the bay at Cagimaya, at which 

 place will be built two wharves and other 

 necessary equipment for economically 

 "handling the ore and exporting it to the 

 United States. 



Another American company operating 

 Tiear the Daiquiri mines ship])ed its first 

 ore in 1884, since which lime about 

 5,000.000 tons have been produced, near- 

 ly all going to tlie United States. The 

 ore is transported from the mines to 

 Santiago Bay by rail, where the com- 

 panj- has a fine steel j)ier. 



Little CorrEK Mined at Present. — 

 Copper deposits exist throughout al- 

 most the whole of the southern portion 

 of Santiago Province, but so far the 

 only attempt that has been made to 

 mine it for exi:)orlation is in the vicinity 

 of El Cobre, about fifteen miles west of 

 Santiago. A deposit of extraordinary 

 richness exists in this territorj'. The 

 w-orks were entirely destroyed during the 

 war of 1898. In 1902 an .Vmerican com- 

 pany purchased them and began to drain 

 them by means of enurmous steam 

 pumps. At tide water on the bay the 

 company also erected reduction works, 

 comprising a smelter and concentrator, 

 the latter having a capacity of 300 tons 

 per day. Owing, however, to a series 

 of accidents ;'t the mines these are not 

 in operation now. The copper contents 

 of the ore mined is about 5 per cent. 

 The company operates about 12 miles of 

 railroad, extending from tide water on 

 the bay to the mines. — R. E. Holaday, 

 U. S. Consul. 



ostriches in CUBA. 



Thirty birds were recently brought 

 from Nice, consigned to the firm of 

 Barbour and Pearson, who have estab- 

 lished an ostrich farm in Marianao not 

 far froiTi the place occupied by the late 

 General Fitzhugh Lee, when governor 

 of Havana. 



The Custom Receitts at Havana for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, will aggre- 

 gate more than $21,000,000. April. May and 

 June will probably reach $6,000,000, and the 

 Treasury holds at this date some $18,000,000. 

 The collections for April, 1907, were 

 $1,830,054.95, an increase over the previous 

 year of $403,741.64. 



Pier of the Snanisb-.Xmerican Iron Co. at Daiquiri, where the ore i> i.tut-n uu board of vessels for 

 shipment to the United States. This Is also the place where the American forces disembarked In the 

 Cuban War against Spain, 18U8. 



El Muelle de la '■Spauisb-American Iron Co." en Daiquiri, en donde se carga el mineral en buques 

 para transportarse .1 Ics Estudos Uuidos. Tambifen es el lugar en que se desembarcaron las Fuerzas 

 Americanas en la Guerra Cubana de 1898. 



