THE CUBA REVIEW 



19 



Cuban Iron Mine Decision. 



A despatch from Santiago de CuIki of 

 October 21, says: The higher court to- 

 day confirmed the verdict for the plain- 

 tiff given by the Baracoa Court of First 

 Instance in the Moa iron mine case. 

 The plaintiffs are McLaughlin brothers, 

 who brought suit against the Juraga Iron 

 Company, a subsidiary of the Bethlehem 

 Steel Company, of Pennsylvania, to se- 

 cure the disputed title to eleven iron 

 mines, covering 2,600 acres in the Bara- 

 coa district. The decision of the lower 

 court was rendered in March last. 



Dredging Sagua Harbor. 



The bids for the dredging which is 

 to be done to clear away the bar at the 

 entrance to the harbor at Sagua la 

 Grande were opened October 16 for the 

 removal of rock and mud by the cubic 

 meter and were as follows: 



Rock. Mud. 



M. J. Dady 5-65 59 



R. R. Moore 7.29 sji 



T. L. Huston Contract- 

 ing Company 4.50 25 



Compania del Gragado. 5.60 54 



Sanchez Mederos 6.85 95 



Iron Ore Deposits in Cuba. 



The residual brown iron ores of Cuba 

 form the subject of a paper in the Au- 

 gust number of the "Bulletin of the 

 American Institute of Mining Engi- 

 neers." The purpose of the writer, C. M. 

 Weld, is to set forth certain features con- 

 cerning the character and probable gen- 

 esis of these deposits, which give prom- 

 ise of adding about 1,000,000,000 tons of 

 iron ore to the world's supply. The 

 most conspicuous is the Mayari deposit, 

 situated about 15 miles south of Nipe 

 Bay, where a company controlling over 

 18,500 acres of ore-bearing land contain- 

 ing 500,000,000 tons of ore has installed 

 the necessary plant and equipment with 

 docks and railways. The ore field at 

 Moa Bay, covering from 13,000 to 15,000 

 acres, contains approximately 350,000,- 

 000 tons, and smaller deposits are located 

 at Subitas, at Taco Bay, and Navas ne.nr 

 Baracoa. The development of these huge 

 fields has directed study toward several 

 metallurgical problems attending their 

 use in the manufacture of iron and steel, 

 and it has been announced, as a result 

 of exhaustive experiments, that steel rails 

 of more than usual excellence have been 

 manufactured from the ores. 



Steam drill at work at the Daiquiri :\Iines, Oriente Province. 

 Daic|uiri Minas. Barrenadoras de mineral a vapor. 



