THE CUBA REVIEW 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 

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Vol VIL 



No. 6 



I 



MAY, J 909 



Contents of This Number 



The cover-page is a beautiful scene of one of the many magnificent roads leading out 

 from Havana westward. 



Government matters are particularly interesting this month. I'resident Gomez is 

 establishing himself more and more firmly in the estimation of those who are looking 

 for a stable government in Cuba. Matters appertaining to the activities of the 

 Cuban Congress, and other important information, will be found on pages 7 to 10, 

 inclusive. 



Comments of the press of the L'nited States on the situation in the Island will be 

 found on pages 11 and 12. 



Government notes, comprising interesting items from all sources, are on pages 13 to IS, 

 inclusive. 



Financial and Railways: Earnings and reports, quotations of Cuban securities, etc., 

 on pages 16 and 17. 



Commercial matters are on pages 18, 19 and jo. Havana cable rates and interior 

 telegraph rates will lie found on page 18. Various other items and an illus- 

 tration of the new building of the Commercial Exchange, in Havana, on the 

 succeeding pages. 



The cost of wooden highway bridges in Cuba, together with an interesting itein 

 regarding the future of Guantanamo, on page 2\. 



An attractive illustration is that crossing pages 22 and 23, which was taken at Camp 

 Columbia, March 31, when the Second American Intervention ended. 



Road building in Cuba, with some striking illustrations, on page 24. 

 Isle of Fines matters on page 25. 



I'nusually interesting agiicultural notes on pages 26 to 30; and attention is specially 

 directed to the condensation of the United States Government Bulletin on onion 

 culture, which is especially impo/tant to .Vmericans in Cuba. 



The Sugar Review, by Willett iV- (Irey, is on page 31- 'I'he same article in Spanish is 

 on page 32. 



