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THE CUBA REVIEW 



New Office Building, Soledad. 



Home of Mr. Atlvins, Soledad. 



Among the additions and improvements noted at Soledad is an up-to-date l)aildins for 

 the offices of the company and an additional new stracture to be used as quarters for the bache- 

 lor officers. Individual cottages are provided by the company for the accomm.odation of 

 married officers and their families. 



The residence and grounds occupied by Mr. Atkins and famjly during their stay at boledad 

 are beautiful, and the gardens are among the finest in Cuba. There is an interesting old block 

 house still standing on the plantation vvhich was used as a fortification during the stormy 

 days of the Cuban rebellion in the nineties. 



Mr. Atkins has seen a great evolution in this important field of tropical agriculture and 

 industry, not only in the methods of cultivation, but also in the progress of mechanical perfec- 



