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Ibern, Jos6 A. (Ibern & Co.) Mercadores, 42. 



Kaupp & Co., Industria, 130. 



Kirberg, Adolph G. (Ibern & Co.), Mercaderes 42. 



Lohmann & Co., Aguacate, 86. 



Michaelscn & Prasso, Obrapia, 18. 



More, J. Garcia, Santo Toina.s, No. 5, Cerro. 



Orenstein & KopjH'l, Arthur Koppol Co., Lonja del Comercio 217. 



Oswald, Carl, Havana. 



Paetzold & Co., San Ignacio, 54. 



Prasse, German, Obrapia, 18. 



Rintelen, Ricardo. 



Rios, Juan, San Isidro No. 24 (Zalvidea, Rios, & Co.). 



Scheldt, Francisco (Hamburg-American Line-San Ignacio 54). 



Seeler, Arthur (Seelcr, Pi & Co.). 



Tillmann & Co., San Ignacio, 76. 



Toennies, H. 



Upmann & Co., Amargura No. 1 and Mercaderes, No. 4. 



Upmann, Herman, Havana. 



Wagner, Frederico, Havana. 



Zalvidea, Rios & Co., San Isidro, No. 24. 



Zalvidea, Pedro, San Isidro 24. 



The public market known as the "Plaza Vieja" on Avenida de Italia (formerly Galiano 

 Street) was closed on July 1 by the Sanitary Department owing to its unsanitary condition, and 

 the market has been removed for the present to an open-air site located on the former grounds 

 of the Villanueva Station of the United Railways. 



There is still nothing of particular interest to report in c(jnnection with oil wells, although 

 drilling still continues and machinery is constantly being imported for the purpose of opening 

 up new prospects or developing the older ones. 



The American Legation issued a notice on July 25th, stating that fruit and other Cuban 

 products which are upon the American restricted import list, may now, by order of the War 

 Trade Board, be imported into the L^nited States from Cuba, when carried upon the two car- 

 ferries plying between Cuba and Key West, regardless of general prohibitions upon imports 

 applying to ocean shipments, and that the War Trade Board specifices only that sugar be given 

 priority upon these car-ferries if sugar shipments are available. This will assist the growers in 

 getting their product to markets in the North, although shipments are necessarily very light. 

 The fruit and vegetable producers have had a very bad season on account of prohibition in con- 

 nection with the importation of their products. Pineapples were not included in the prohibited 

 list, although the movement amounted to considerably less than the normal crop, due to difficulty 

 in getting space from the steamships. The fruit and vegetable growers have recently sent a 

 representative to Washington to request assistance in connection with their shipments to 

 the North, as, if assurances could not be given that the service would be better than during the 

 past year, it was stated that they would not attempt to raise winter vegetables. However, it 

 is hoped that satisfactory arrangements can be made to meet their needs. 



Building continues steadily both in Havana and its suburbs and work is progesssing rapidly 

 on the different business edifices, as we have previously mentioned, and new ones are also in 

 course of construction. Residence building in the suburbs is heavy and also the development 

 of new subdivisions is on the increase. 



The grinding of the present sugar crop is coming to a close and the total output is esti- 

 mated at about 3,400,000 tons, which is larger than the previous seasons. In connection with 

 the movement of the crop, it is interesting to note that although the American bankers raised 

 a fund of $100,000,000 to finance the growers here, only some $14,000,000 of this fund has been 

 used for this purpose. The question is still up of securing a higher price for Cuban sugars 

 during the coming crop and it is confidentially expected that it will be conceded, as expenses in 

 the production of this commodity have naturally greatly increased since the present price was 

 set by the International Sugar Committee last fall, as referred to in a previous letter. 



