14] 
Nassau at the boginnipe 4 of this sears will be read with interest. This 
Report is reproduce actly as it appears in the Reports from the 
Consuls of the Unted States, No, 114, March 1890 :— 
CONDITIONS OF THE SISAL INDUSTRY IN THE BAHAMAS. 
REPORT BY CONSUL MCLAIN, OF NASSAU. 
One year ago I made a report to the Department upon the culture of 
Sisal host in this colony, calling attention to it as a new industry just 
being introduced, and which promised to bring substantial prosperity to 
these islands in the near future 
During the year, and especially within the last few months, so many 
letters have been received at this Consulate from various parts of the 
United States making enquiries upon the subject, that I am satisfied a 
statement touching the present condition of the toma would interest 
many of our people, and I therefore submit the followi 
rogress made in the baer eee ng Si eal culture in pex 
eet during the past twelve months is marvellous. One 
a nag 
acres at Inagua, and has begun operations. 
Me oh Munro & Co., of St. John’s, att octane have obtained a 
P 
company on the same island. Mr. Alex. Keith, of Edinburgh, Scotland, 
has tuken 2,000 acres on Andros Island, and is working upon it. But 
Ma any a e raien i land have not been reached at all as yet on the 
files, the Surveyor-General’s Department being hard pushed in the 
matter of surveys ind” locations, whilst new applications are being 
cultivation being as great as the condition of labour in the colony will 
justify. The number of acres of Crown land already tes of is 
about 120,000 acres, whilst pending a on file, and not yet 
reached, will amount to at least 200,000 m 
