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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Carretera Guane a Luiz Lazo. Caminos vicjo y nuevo junto al Iliacos. 



BRIDGE BUILDING IN CUBA. — Two 90-foot spans over the Hiacos River on the road from 

 Guane to Luiz Lazo, showing concrete piers and new and old roads. 



By a decree issued Janu- 

 Arts mid ary 26 by Governor Magoon, 

 Trade a foundry, a school for the 



Schools. teaching- of moulding, deco- 

 tive painting and improve- 

 ments in the system of teaching the Eng- 

 lish language will be inaugurated at the 

 School of Arts and Trade of Havana, one 

 of the most valuable educational institu- 

 tions in Cuba. 



Governor Magoon also granted an ap- 

 propriation of $3,000 for an industrial mu- 

 seum which is to be located at the school, 

 and $6,000 for the purchase of machinery 

 and other necessary implements for the 

 foundry. Hundreds of Havana children 

 are attending this school. 



A decree permitting the 



Tranship- transfer and transhipment of 



ment of merchasridise arriving o n 



Merchandise, foreign ships to coastwise 



steamers was signed January 



25 by Governor Magoon, and takes effect 



within ten days. 



The present law requires that duty be 

 paid at the port of arrival before a tran- 

 shipment can be made. Under the new 

 decree merchandise arriving in Havana 

 destined to some port where the foreign 

 ships do not touch can be forwarded to 

 other ports and the duty there collected. 



One hundred thousand 

 Sagua's Ini- dollars was appropriated by 

 provements. the Provisional Government 

 for dredging the Maravilla 

 channel leading into the harbor of Sagua, 

 where 30 feet depth is needed. The total 

 cost is estimated at $2,000,000 and will re- 

 quire several years to complete, including 

 improvements up the Sagua River to the 

 city. The entire Sagua district is annually 

 overflowed with consequent immense 'dam- 

 age. The river itself will be straightened 

 and deepened and thus carry an increased 

 volume of water without spreading all over 

 the country. The bids will be opened this 

 month. It is said eleven firms are bidding 

 for the contract. 



The Neiu 



Map of 



Cuba. 



There have been announce- 

 ments from time to time in 

 the newspapers of the United 

 States and Cuba that the new 

 map of Cuba, long in prepara- 

 tion, had been completed and was ready for 

 distribution. Inquiries as late as Jan. 30, 

 1908, at the United States War Department 

 at Washington elicited the official informa- 

 tion "that there is no possibility of these 

 maps being finished for some time yet. 

 The department believes that every time 

 some one branch or detail of the map is 

 finished the press takes it for granted that 

 it is the whole map that is completed." 



