THE CUBA RE VI E W 



21 



Road and Bridge 



Postmaster Samuel E. Gray, of Terre 

 Haute, Ind., returned recently from a three- 

 weeks' visit to the Isle of Pines, ofi the 

 southern coast of Cuba, where he, in coni- 

 pany with several capitalists from St. Louis 

 and Washington, leased 70,000 acres of tim- 

 ber land, which will be converted into a 

 winter resort for wealthy Americans.— Terre 

 Haute (Ind.) Tribune. 



There has never been ni the history of the 

 island so much doing as at the present time. 

 Land in all parts of the island is selling 

 at prices four times as great as the same 

 land sold for several years ago and 'he 

 demand continues.— Isle of Pines Appeal. 



Chas. S. Brown, of Marinette, Wisconsin, 

 is head of the Canada Land & Fruit Com- 

 pany whose lands lie on the Siguenea bay 

 in the Canada and Los Indios tracts. 



Among the enterprises of the company is 

 a regular service by the company's launch 

 "Canada" from Nueva Gerona to Los Indios 

 upon the arrival of the steamer Cristobol 

 Colon every Thursday and Sunday mornings. 



New Roads and Bridges.— The Santa Fe 

 and La Ceiba broad macadam calzada which 

 has been in course of construction for sev- 

 eral months past is rapidly nearing comple- 

 tion. This will be one of the best roads 

 on the island. If the government continues 

 the calzada to Los Indios, the beneficial re- 

 sults would be incalculable. 



The 77-foot bridge over the Nuevas River 

 is nearing completion. 



The McKinley calzada, one of the best on 

 the island, is now completed and has been 

 provisionally accepted. This road is twelve 

 kilometers in length and cost $72,000. It is 

 the second calzada on the Isle of Pines to 

 be accepted under the appropriation of last 

 year. 



A December week's weather report at 

 Nueva Gerona : 



Max. Min. Rain. 

 Saturday ... 79 72 0.0 



Sunday .... 80 78 0.0 



Monday. ... 79 74 0.0 



Tuesday ... 74 72 0.0 



Wednesday. . 80 70 0.0 



Thursday. . . 76 70 0.0 



Friday .... 75 75 _ 0,0 



A crate factory is needed and it is under- 

 stood that a company is being organized at 

 Santa Fe to take over the sawmill there and 

 add a crate and a wagon factory to its other 

 activities. 



Americans Own 90 Per Cent. 



The struggle of American citizens of the 

 Isle of Pines to be free from the yoke of 

 Cuba will be watched with renewed interest, 

 now that the United States troops are soon 

 to be withdrawn from the new republic, says 

 the Scranton (Pa.) Tribune. The men who 

 are now asking a square deal from the gov- 

 ernment of the United States own 90 per 

 cent, of the property on the island. Under 



ISLE OF PINES MATTERS. 

 Construction Work — Weather Report — Crate Factory 

 Promised 



the American flag they can prosper, but if 

 left to the tender mercies of a Cuban admin- 

 istration there is every reason for apprehen- 

 sion on their part. 



The Cuban newspapers are confident that 

 the United States will do nothing for the 

 residents of the Isle of Pines, and cite Ha- 

 waii as an instance to show that the Wash- 

 ington authorities would not annex the terri- 

 tory of the Pacific un il forced to do so by 

 a war on the islands. But this very argument 

 should work in favor of the annexation of 

 the Isle of Pines. If the United States Gov- 

 ernment saw fit to annex Hawaii, there is no 

 reason why there should be hesitation about 

 annexing a territory to which Cuba never 

 had legal claim and which is practically 



Colonists' homes in the Isle of Pines. Mr. 

 Symes' residence at Los Indios. 



owned by American citizens. — Scranton 

 (Pa.) Tribune. 



The island has two weeklies. The Isle 

 of Pines Appeal is published at Santa Fe,. 

 and is now in its fifth volume; the Isle of 

 Pines News is published at Nueve Gerona. 

 Both these papers are well printed, with 

 good ink and excellent paper, and both are 

 interesting. — Jacksonville (Fla.) Times- 

 Union. — 



Peanut Oil Yields.— Reliable authorities 

 state that the average yield of peanuts in 

 oil, according to quality and origin, is from 

 38 to 50 per cent, of their weight. The 

 first pressure gives from 16 to 18 per cent. 

 of high-grade edible oil; the second, from 

 7 to 8 per cent, of second grade, after which 

 from 7 to 10 per cent, of industrial oil is 

 also obtained. The remaining cake is often 

 also treated by the sulphur of carbon or 

 tetrachlorure of carbon process, which ex- 

 tracts a further 7 to 10 per cent, of low- 

 grade industrial oil. 



Edible peanut oil is very highly esteemed, 

 bringing at present $13.51 to $15.44 per 100 

 kilos, as compared with $13.70 for choice 

 winter edible cotton oil. The soap-making 

 varieties are quoted at $12.16 to $12.26. 

 Ruffisque peanut oil cake sells at $3.13 per 

 100 kilos ; Coromandel peanut cake at $3.33. 

 — U. S. Gov. Report. 



