History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics: Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present TimeBallou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
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History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics: Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time
Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
Cuba -- Description and travel; Cuba -- History
In sugar-cane plantations, 172,608
" coffee trees, 184,352
" tobacco, 54,448
" lesser or garden and fruit culture, 823,424
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Total acres, 1,234,832
Leaving over 13,000,000 of acres uncultivated. Some of these
uncultivated lands are appropriated to grazing, others to settlements
and towns; the remainder occupied by mountains, roads, coasts, rivers
and lakes,--the greater part, however, wild.
Total value of lands in 1830, $94,396,300
Value of buildings, utensils, etc., 55,603,850
The different products of cultivation were valued as follows:
Sugar canes in the ground, $6,068,877
Coffee trees, 32,500,000
Fruit trees, vegetables, etc., 46,940,700
Tobacco plants, 340,620
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Total value of plants, 85,850,197
Total value of wood exported, consumed
on the island and made into charcoal, $3,818,493
Minimum value of the forests, 190,624,000
Value of 138,982 slaves, at $300 each, 41,694,600
Total value of live stock, 39,617,885
RECAPITULATION.
Lands, $94,396,300
Plants, including timber, 276,774,367
Buildings, engines and utensils, 54,603,850
Slaves, 41,694,600
Animals, 39,617,885
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507,087,002
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Representative value of capital invested, 317,264,832
VALUE OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
Sugar, $8,132,609
Molasses, 262,932
Coffee, 4,325,292
Cocoa, 74,890
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Carried forward, 12,795,723
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