Congressional Edition Volume 4627 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...that tine bay in connection with Santiago de Cuba ami the Sancti Spiritus branch; it being the purpose of this enterprise to extend its railroad system ami contribute with its own resources to the development of agriculture and the vast and fertile region that extends all along its lines. Another new enterprise, the Cuba Eastern Railroad, after fulfilling all the requirements of the law, has been authorized to build a standard-gauge railroad that, starting from Boqnerones on the bav of Guantanamo, will be extended till kilometers to the northeast of said bay. This company has been incorporated with a capital of $2,000, (XX). The Insular Railway Company, which obtained a concession for various important lines in the province of Habana, is building a branch toward Mariel and has already reached liuena Vista with its grade work. The Western Railways of Habana began during the first half of January the extension of its principal line from Pinar del Rio to San Luis, which, within a very few months, will be united by railway with Habana. It is the purpose of this same railroad, so stated by its president, to carry its line up to the rich district of San Juan y Martinez as soon as the 17-kilometer branch in question is finished. The Marconi Wireless Company secured a short time ago, and without privileges of any sort, authorization to place in operation in Cuba a system of telegraph without the use of wires. Signs like these, as I have said before, are those that showr the confidence of foreign capitalists in the high qualifications of the Cuban people to govern themselves. The condition of the treasury continues to be satisfactory. $1,562,942.05 $1,156,871.56 1,619,306.98 1,527,407.59 1,400,137.56 1,457,421.01 7,161, 143.07 The following is a...