“During the past crop, as well as at the present time, I employ a considerable number of Asiatics, but many of these are opium smokers and much debilitated, and we calculate on sixty per cent. only being at work, while forty per cent. are resting in their barracon.[9]
| SALARIES |
| “The average salaries paid by this colona during normal times, that is,previous to the insurrection, were about as follows: |
| ALL THE YEAR |
| Administration | per | month, | $166.66 | gold, | and | maintenance. |
| Servant | “ | “ | 30.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Overseer | “ | “ | 85.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Second overseer | “ | “ | 35.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Steward and bookkeeper | “ | “ | 50.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Assistant | “ | “ | 25.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Carpenter | “ | “ | 35.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Montero | “ | “ | 25.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Assistant | “ | “ | 20.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Hostler | “ | “ | 20.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Assistant | “ | “ | 15.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Pumping water | “ | “ | 6.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Cook | “ | “ | 30.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Assistant | “ | “ | 25.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Night watchman | “ | “ | 20.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Mounted field-guard | “ | “ | 30.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| “ “ “ | “ | “ | 25.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| DURING CROP TIME |
| Mounted field guard | per | month, | $25.00 | gold, | and | maintenance. |
| “““ | “ | “ | 25.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Time-keeper | “ | “ | 20.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Waiter for operatives’ table | “ | “ | 15.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Vegetable gardener | “ | “ | 20.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Bueyero | “ | “ | 22.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Assistant | “ | “ | 16.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| “ | “ | “ | 12.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Foreman with cartmen | “ | “ | 30.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Assistant | “ | “ | 23.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Foreman with stevedores | “ | “ | 28.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Cartmen | “ | “ | 23.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Ploughmen | “ | “ | 23.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Cane cutters | “ | “ | 21.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Cane lifters | “ | “ | 15.00 | “ | “ | “ |
| Cane loaders (stevedores) | “ | “ | 21.00 | “ | “ | “ |
“During the summer months wages for field labour averaged about $17 per month. Cost for maintaining labour averaged about $7.50 per month in gold; cost for maintaining overseers, foremen, carpenters, cooks, stewards, guards, etc., amounted to about $12 per month.
“Rations for each man per day were as follows:
“Clear beef, one pound, or its equivalent in tasajo or salt fish.
“Rice, one pound, or its equivalent in beans, peas, macaroni, etc.
“Lard, two ounces.
“Coffee, one ounce.
“Sugar, two ounces.
“Bread, six ounces, or instead of bread, sweet potatoes, plantains, or melanga.