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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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grew up the littlemining town of Cobre (copper). Since that date depositsof asphaltum, iron, manganese, and salt have been foundand have been worked, but not as they would have been ina well governed and progressive country. The mining districts of Cuba are confined almost exclu-sively to the mountainous or eastern end of the Island, andso far the province of Santiago is the chief producer. Itsleading product is iron ore, mined principally by Americancompanies with American corporations. The first real iron-mining in Cuba began about 1884, when 21,798 tons wereshipped to the United States. This was the first Cubaniron ore received in this country, and was about one-twenty-third of the total iron ore importation. In 1897 we received397,173 tons of Cuban ore, which was three-fourths of theore imported. During the years 1884-1897 we received3,401,077 tons of Cuban ore. The ore is a brown hematite, in large quantities, easy towork, of excellent quality, about sixty-two per cent, iron, 318
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■ Mines and Mining 3X9 and is especially adapted for the making of Bessemer steel.Though there are many mining properties, three Americancompanies, the Juragua Iron Company, the Spanish-Ameri-can Iron Company, and the Sigua Iron Company, do all thebusiness. The Juragua does far more than all the others.Its shipments to the United States in 1897 were 244,817(5932 tons, in addition, to Nova Scotia) to 152,356 tons bythe Spanish-American Company, which made its first ship-ment in 1895, and none by the Sigua Company, which hasshipped, in all, 21,853 tons. The Sigua began operationsin 1892, the Spanish-American in 1885, and the Juragua in1884. In 1897, the Spanish-American Company shipped51,537 tons to foreign countries; bringing its total outputfor the year up to 203,893 tons. Although iron ore of the best quality outcrops in manyplaces on the estates once devoted to coffee on the southernslope of the coast range, it was not until the year 1881 thatthe first claim was located, or * deno

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