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THE CUBA REVIEW 



'Casa Vivienda" — Officers' Living Quarters, Punta Alcgre Alil 





Loaded Caii'3 Cars and Roadbed at the Alill, Piinta Alegre Mil 



The cane is brought from the plantation to the mill over a standard gauge, rock-ballasted 

 railroad of some forty kilorr.eters, with no grsde exceeding one-quarter of one per cent. The 

 steel cars used for transporting the cane are of the latest model with a capacity of thirty tons 

 each. The road has been built under the most discouraging conditions, but the determination 

 of the engineers triumphed, and the road is now one that will bear comoarison with the best in 

 the island. In addition to the main lines, there is a system of portable track roads which act 

 as feeders bringing the cane from the more distant fields. This ramification of portable track 

 roads will make it possible to haul the cane during periods of rainy weather when it otherwise 

 would be impossible to pursue the field work. 



