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THE CUBA REVIEW 



the Renta de Loteria donated $8,000 to assist girls who marry from the home, besides other 

 sums of money, for other useful purposes. 



The actual capital, even conservatively assessed, is large, consisting of over one million 

 eight hundred and fifty-thousand dollars in lands and town property. 



The present edifice stand on a piece of land of 21,172 square meters, bounded by the streets 

 named San Lazaro, Belascoain,Virtudes, Marques Gonzales and Lucena, and, as already stated, 

 fronts on the Park Maceo with a full view of the sea.— From the Havana Post. 



CUBAN COMMERCIAL MATTERS 



THE CARLOTA IRON MINE 



The Carlota Iron Mine, controlled by 

 American interests, is developing its prop- 

 erties at Cumanayagua, about 21 miles North- 

 east of Cienfuegos. The ore is of excellent 

 quality and production will start within a few 

 months, as most of the structural materials 

 have already been delivered. It promises to 

 be of considerable importance. 



The Cienfuegos, Palmira and Cruces Elec- 

 tric Railroad Co., 80% of whose capital is 

 controlled by Cubans, has already extended 

 its lines to Palmira, and expects to reach 

 Cruces, about 30 miles to the North of Cien- 

 fuegos, by June of next year, eventually ex- 

 tending as far as Santa Clara. This company 

 will also put through a line to the Carlota 

 mine, whose output of ore they will handle, 

 and in connection with which they will erect 

 a deepwater wharf at Cienfuegos within a 

 short time. The Electric Railroad will com- 

 pete directly with the Cuban Central, handl- 

 ing both freight and passenger traffic. 



MATANZA3 



The Armour Plant produced last year 

 37,000 tons of fertilizer for sugar cane, and 

 this year expects to make about 50,000 tons. 

 In addition they have already in operation a 

 sulphuric acid plant and are now putting up 

 a new building for the manufacture of muri- 

 atic acid. They also have under construction 

 a concrete wharf about 640 feet long with 

 narrow gauge track for the handling of phos- 

 phate rock, used in making fertilizer, which is 

 brought forward in schooners from the Gulf 

 in large quantities. They plan next year to 

 erect a soap factory and to increase their 

 facilities generally. 



CUBAN PORTLAND CEMENT CO. 



Interests closely identified with the Cuban 

 Portland Cement Company, Mariel, Cuba, 

 state that that concern will probably be pro- 

 ducing cement in the near future, possibly 

 about the first of January, 1918. Cement in 



the Cuban market is selling for $5 a barrel 

 and it is estimated that the cost of production 

 by the Cuban company will amount to $2.25 

 a barrel. A price of $1 less than the market 

 price, or $4 a barrel, will probably be made. 

 The International Portland Cement Company 

 according to the same interests, has been 

 greatly delayed in setting up its plant and 

 machinery, owing to the conditions of shipping 

 to Argentina. It may be a year or more, it 

 is reported, before the plants of this company 

 are ready for production — Cement World. 



CIENFUEGOS 



Mr. Domingo Nazabal, a well-known sugar 

 planter of Cuba, is now in negotiation with the 

 Cuban Government to secure a concession 

 for the erection of a concrete wharf and 

 warehouses at Cienfuegos, to cost in the 

 neighborhood of $1,000,000. Mr. Nazabal 

 plans to start as soon as the concession is 

 granted. The viciuitj^ around the proposed 

 wharf is now being dredged to a depth of 25 ft. 

 The wharf and warehoases, part of which will 

 be bonded and the rest for sugar, will have di- 

 rect trackage connection with the Cuban 

 Centra] Railroad. 



LICORICE CULTIVATION 



Cuba may shortly add to her present crops 

 another one, that of the licorice plant, if the 

 efforts that are being made at the agricul- 

 tural experiment station at Santiago de las 

 Vegas by Director Calvino prove successful. 

 The product of the licorice plant, which is 

 used by druggists and confectioners, is now in 

 great demand, and the Cuban agricultural 

 authorities feel that there is no question that 

 the licorice would have a certain market if it 

 could be grown in Cuba. The principal 

 sources of the world's licorice supply today 

 are the Mediterranean basin and eastern Asia, 

 including Turkey. The United States alone 

 imports between one and two million dollars' 

 worth of licorice annually. — The Havana 

 Post. 



