10 THECUBAREVIEW 



ship "Montana," and the flag signal to stop. rebels were particularly angry and violent 

 The reason for this, as we soon found, was against American citizens, 

 that the lower bay at Guantanamo, where the Next day, the 18th, hearing firing approach- 

 American Naval Station is, was closed by ing- took refuge in U. S. Xaval Station at 

 a huge submarine-catching net. Passage Caimanera, Guantanamo Bay, and with their 

 through it was obtained for us after a half assistance procured passage on a transport 

 hour, and we were escorted through by a as far as the City of Cienfuegos on the south 

 motor launch from the battleship. Spent shore, where we were soon agam in safe and 

 four davs in Guantanamo Valley, which was civilized surrou ndings. 



entirely under the control of the rebels, who MARIEL 



were running the Custom House, the city it has been planned to construct a new 



and railroads in complete freedom from hospital building at the quarantine camp at 



molestation. Mariel. It has been the custom for the 



However, on the 15th other rebel bands. Department of Sanitation to segregate 



coming from Santiago, destroyed bridges on passengers having contagious diseases arriving 



the Guantanamo & Western Line, and again in Havana and necessarily held in quarantine, 



we were unable to proceed inland for that It is proposed to construct two large buildings 



reason, without incurring imminent danger of for general cases and another small building 



death or capture, as these eastern Cuban for the treatment of extreme cases. 



PORT IMPROVEMENTS AT NUEVITAS 



That Nuevitas, the principal port of Camaguey province, is to become one of the principal 

 shipping ports of the island is now practically assured. With the docks and warehouses now 

 building, to cost approximately $1,000,000, and with the additional transportation facilities, 

 there will be developed a great point for the shipping of products of the island, and for the 

 receipt of freight and iiassenger traffic for Eastern Cuba. 



JSIuevitas will soon be an important railroad center. Since the Cuba Railroad has ac- 

 quired the road from Camaguey to Nuevitas and the gauge standardized, there have been vast 

 improvements in that line. Soon there will be another line to Nuevitas — the North Coast Rail- 

 way, now in course of construction, opening up a country to development not heretofore 

 touched, a country rich in possibilities which is attracting the 'attention of enterprising syndi- 

 cates and developers, so that, within a very few years, a rich country will be opened which 

 will so add to the wealth of Cuba, that past prosperity will be eclipsed and the future develop- 

 ment of the country will only depend upon the amount of intelligent labor to be secured. 



It is a well-known fact that Camaguey province is to be greatly developed by the sugar 

 people. Oriente province is now apparently the banner sugar province of the island, but in a 

 very short time, according to prospects, the province of Camaguey will be one vast canefield, 

 with mills dotting the country over and there will be work for all; prosperity will be more than 

 ever apparent, and while Cuba is now the largest sugar-producing country of the world, it will 

 soon be so far ahead of all others that there will be no comparison. 



Not only will the cane growing industry be greatly benefited by the dock improvements at 

 Nuevitas, but the other classes of agriculturists, the farmers and the fruit and vegetable growers 

 will be helped. The North Coast Railroad will tap a fruit and vegetable growing district al- 

 ready rich in production, and this will be further developed when the proper kind of transporta- 

 tion is oifered. The Cubitas Valley and all along the line of the North Coast Railway have all 

 the greatest possibilities for development in the horticultural line, and with greater facilities 

 for shipping there will naturally be greater incentive for development in this line. 



The industries of the island are now so great that Havana cannot handle all of the shipping, 

 and the development of the port of Nuevitas will not cause business through the port of Havana 

 to suffer a particle. Steamers to Havana are now filled to capacity. Wharves and warehouses 

 are packed to the roofs. Railway lines leading out of Havana are behind in their freight hand- 

 ling, and the customs authorities are far behind in their work of clearing goods, so that the estab- 

 lishment of outside docks will be a relief and help to Havana and a means of faster development 

 in Eastern Cuba and the island generally. 



