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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



ROAD BUILDING IN CUBA. 



Road-Making on the South Line of Los Pinos 



Calzada, Santa M 

 Courtesy of the Publicity League of Cuba. 



Road Building in Cuba. 



One of the greatest accomplishments of 

 the regime of the provisional governor, 

 Charles E. Magoon, representing the United 

 States, w^as the opening up of the island 

 from end to end, and laterally with excel- 

 lent macadamized roads built on the most 

 approved modern principles. Some of these 

 roads follow the course of old ones that had 

 been graded in a desultory way by preced- 

 ing Spanish and Cuban administrations ; but 



Mclrvin Finca, Guanabacoa, Havana Province, 

 aria del Rosario. 



for the most part they replace cart-cut 

 tracks through the thickets that were barely 

 passable in dry weather and entirely useless 

 during the long rainy season. They bring 

 easy communication to the fertile acres of 

 the entire country, much of which has been 

 hitherto completely isolated. They open up 

 the arteries of trade to sections that for 

 hundreds of years have stagnated for a lack 

 of ability to get their produce to market. 



The roads were graded in such a way 

 that nowhere was the incline more than 6 



Road P.uilding in Pinar del Rio — View of New Road from Los Mogotes. 



