Show CUDAN ItWUSTRlfS REVIVED FIRST bAIt OF SUGAR MAItXETED AT SANTIAGO Scarcity of Oxen Retards Plantation WorkAmericaI Buying TimberLands Timber-Lands In Eastern CUba Correspondence or the AssocIated Press Santiago de Cuba Feb 20 The first car of sugar that has come into San Iago Since long before the blockade and the first that has been nroduced sin e the sprIng of 1897 was marketed last week It came from the Santa Ana nlantatton near San Louis the first to begin grinding There was quite a celebration among businss men In the warehouse district and Senor Auza proprietor cf the plantation was warmly warm-ly eOlnD11mented on his enterprise fn sorting the new era of prosperity Sugar is king In Cuba in the big plamations and their dependent colonials colon-ials ins practically depended the IJ105 iperity nf the island Many mills have been destrrved and will require time and near clDltal to restore but those remaining arc resuming the work of grinding as rapidly as possible One of tae difficulties tncolIJtrel by tJluntls Whose mills have escaped lie 5trlcti 11 lack of oxen to haul Ihe can cr the hundreds o thousand of work cattle formerly employed on the big 1iRIitations scarcely any have 1 survived the war The cattle business j rs the most active of any here at present pres-ent Cargo lots from Jamirl an Le mingo Porto Rico and Carmnageua hae been rmiied in and even Texas had taken advantage of the excellent market mar-ket although Vest India bred stock is preferred Wellbloken oxn sell readily read-ily at from 175 to 200 per yoke and the demand greatly exceeds till sUJiY Lr e cf the largest plantaS Mr IUg ney has imported a number of American I Ameri-can traction engines as an experiment and is using them successfully in haul I ting t cane A number of representatives of American I Amer-ican syndicates are examining tracts if land in the interior with a view of i purchasing Captain C C Vaughn and Lieutenant T C Causer of Genertii j Lees staff haVe purchased from the Grlnon Bros of this city a tract comprising I com-prising 53000 acres of choice cedar and mahogany land in the Nipe bay district I dis-trict This is the first big real estate j i transaction In this uroyince since the war The tract contains some of the I best tobacco land east of the Havana district and is admirably adante to sugar and coffee culture when the timber tim-ber has been removed The demand of northern investors 1s for timber lands Most of the available timber of value has been cut Of but i dOf f there is a practically unlimited iy 1 In the interior that can be JUrcl1lsed at from 50 cents to 52 ner acre Much I of this land will be practically without value however until railroads are built but it is regarded as an excellent excel-lent investment for syndicates able to wait for the muchdesired railroads or to build them for themselves Land nromectors In the interior find a serIous difficulty In the lack of reliable re-liable mans Native guides know the road such as they are but to locate I It tract of land from such descriptions as are found on deeds is sometimes almost I al-most imaosslble Frequently owners and theIr agents have only a vague idea of the location and confess themselves them-selves unable to indicate the exact boundaries 1 I A complete and accurate survey is greatly needed I |