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SILAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SILAY , a See also:

town of the See also:province of Negros Occidental, See also:island of Negros, Philippine Islands, on the N.W. See also:coast, about to m. N. of Bacolod, the See also:capital of the province. Pop. (1903, after the See also:annexation of Guimbalon and a portion of Eustaquio See also:Lopez) - 22,000. There are more than fifty barrios or villages in the town and the largest of these had, in 1903, 3834 inhabitants. The See also:language is Visayan. There is a considerable See also:coasting See also:trade, See also:sugar, brought by a See also:tramway from neighbouring towns, is shipped from here, and the cultivation of sugar-See also:cane is an important in- dustry; See also:Indian See also:corn, See also:tobacco, See also:hemp, See also:cotton and cacao are also grown.

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