Identifier: worldalmanacency1899newy (find matches)
Title: The World almanac and encyclopedia
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: Almanacs, American Statistics
Publisher: New York : Press Pub. Co. (The New York World)
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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al article of exports was sugar. In 1893-94 the amount was 949,778 longtons, one-half the total consurnption of the United States. Next was tobacco, the trade in whichreached its maximum in 1894-9o, ^^ hen the amount imported into the United States was considerablymore than one-third the value of the domestic crop. AVe exported to Cuba meats, breadstuffs, andmanufactured goods, the trade in all of which articles was rapidly assuming verjlarge dimensionsat the outbreak of the insurrection. Coal, coke, and oils were also exported in considerable quanti-ties. During the first year of the insurrection our trade fell oil over $;0,000.000; during the secondyear a further M.ra of $18,000,000, and during the third year a still fuither suniof $21,000,000.making a total decline ot $69,000,000 in the annual value of our foreign trade, and of a branc h of itthat was carried almost entirely in American bottoms. Little wonder that the United States wasinterested in the restoration of peace in Cuba.
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80 Porto Pdco, J jporto 2^tco» The island of Porto Rico, over which the flag^ of the United States was raised in toten of formal ii possession on October 18, 1898, is the most eastern of the Greater Antilles In the West Indies and is i! separated on the east from the Danish island of St. Thomas by a distanceof about fifty miles, and from ■ Hajti on the west by the Mona pas-;age, seventy miles wide. Distances from San Juan, the capital, to ) important points are as follows: New York, 1,420 miles; Charleston, S. C., 1,200 miles; Key West, ; FlaN,l,050milcj; Havana, 1,000miles. , , The island is a parallelogram in general outline, 108 miles from the east to the -vest, and frota 37 ;I to 43 miles across, the area oeing about 3,600 square miles, or somewhat less than half that of the •I Stateof New Jersey (Delr ware has 2.050 square miles and Connecticut 4,990 square miles). The , population according to an enumeratiomaade in 1887 was 798.565, of whom 474.933 were whites, ■I 246,647

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