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In the Yumuri Valley, Matanzas. 



CUBA'S INTEREST IN ROADS HELPS AUTOMOBILE TRADE. 



Cuba is beginning to realize the value of the motor vehicle to supplement trans- 

 portation by railway and coasting steamers, and it is facilitating motor transport by 

 repairing many of the old military roads, and also by the construction of new high- 

 ways. There are good roads along the coast, but in the interim- many of the roads 

 are impassable except by pack mules. The Cuban Secretary of Public Works placed 

 before the Congress some time ago a plan for a general system of macadam roads 

 throughout the island, which would enable motor cars to go from Pinar del Rio in 

 the west to Santiago de Cuba in the east. In addition to the principal highways 



