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

The volume surveys the island’s commercial and industrial landscape shortly after recent hostilities, combining months of field inquiry, provincial visits, testimony, maps, and numerous illustrations. It examines agriculture and export industries—particularly sugar and tobacco—alongside mining, timber, transportation, banking, municipal finance, customs and tariffs, sanitation, education, and demographic trends. The author analyzes revenue sources and expenditures, urban and rural labor prospects, and sanitary and municipal reforms, and includes recorded encounters with local leaders. Concluding chapters distill practical recommendations for administrative measures and for prospective foreign investors, delineating opportunities and constraints for economic reconstruction and development.