Identifier: industrialcubabe00port (find matches)
Title: Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Porter, Robert P. (Robert Percival), 1852-1917
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ils their length, and the longest, the Cauto,is but one hundred and fifty miles from its source to the sea.Others are considerably shorter than the Cauto; many ofthem are scarcely more than estuaries putting in from theocean. The Cauto is navigable for light-draught boats overabout six miles of its course, and some of the others willpermit short navigation by light craft. The usefulness ofthese streams as means of communication and traffic with thesugar, tobacco, and other farms of the interior, and with thetimber districts, may be greatly enhanced by proper atten-tion from modern engineers and a more extensive acquaint-ance with River and Harbour Appropriations legislation. The lakes of the Island, which are numerous, are usuallysmall, and if they are used at all for transportation pur-poses, it is by hunters and pleasure seekers, in canoes andsmall boats; though where it is possible to utilise them inrafting timber it is done. As to the extent of the telegraph lines of Cuba, figures
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Transportation 36 I vary from 2300 to 2500 miles, but the latest Spanish reportis to the effect that there are 2300 miles, with 153 offices,doing a business of 360,000 public messages a year. Thelines have been controlled by the Government, and tele-graphing has not been popular in Cuba, owing to the strictand annoying censorship of the Spanish authorities. There are about one thousand miles of submarine cableconnecting Cuban towns; the International Ocean TelegraphCompany has a line from Havana to Florida, connectingwith the Western Union Telegraph Company; the CubaSubmarine Telegraph Company has a line from Havanato Santiago and Cienfuegos; the West India and PanamaTelegraph Company connects Havana with Santiago, Ja-maica, Porto Rico, the Lesser Antilles, and the Isthmus ofPanama; the French Submarine Cable Company connectsHavana with Santiago, Haiti, Santo Domingo, Venezuela,and Brazil. Nearly all of these cables were cut by theAmericans during the war. The telephone system of Cuba

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