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THE CUBA REVIEW 



GUANTANAMO AND WESTERN CHANGES 



By the purchase of C,000 shares each of 

 the preferred and common stock of the 

 Guantanamo and Western Railroad from 

 tlie Knickerbocker Trust Company of New 

 York, a syndicate made up of a number 

 of the larger stockholders, mostly in Bos- 

 ton, has secured a majority of the stock of 

 that corporation, says the Havana Post. 

 At a meeting held recently the followmg 

 entire new board was elected : 



C. St. L. Abbott, chairman of the board, 

 and William Barbour, Courtlandt D. 

 Barnes, J. H. Caldwell, B. P. Cheney, 

 I. McD. Garfield, James M. Gilbert, M. H. 

 Lewis, Joseph N. Smith. The new board 

 elected officers as follows: M. H. Lewis, 

 president; G. St. L. Abbott, treasurer; L 

 McD. Garfield, vice-president, and D. H. 

 Thomas, secretary. 



The Guantanamo and Western is a broad 

 gauge line eighty-one miles long, with an 

 ocean terminal at Boqueron on the south 

 coast of the east end of the island, ad- 

 joining the United States naval station on 

 Guantanamo Bay. It connects at San Luis 

 with the Cuba (Van Home) Railroad, ex- 

 changing trafiic at that point to and from 

 Santiago, Nipe and Havana. The territory 

 between San Luis and Boqueron is re- 



puted to be a very fertile sugar cane dis- 

 trict, and while only about 15 per cent of 

 it is under development the gross earnings 

 of the railroad during the fiscal year ended 

 June 30, 1911, were in excess of $4,000 per 

 mile. The formation of the syndicate and 

 subsequent changes in control and manage- 

 ment were effected by Messrs. Cheney and 

 Garfield, of Boston. 



Every employee of the Cuban National 

 Lottery, with the sole exception of the as- 

 sistant director, was dismissed from the 

 service on February 26th on orders of Sr. 

 Gustavo Alonso Castanedo, the director. 

 According to the Havana Post Sr. Casta- 

 neda intends reorganizing the inspection 

 department of his bureau, in order to stop 

 the sale of Spanish and San Domingo lot- 

 tery tickets. 



According to figures printed by El To- 

 haco of Havana, the population of Havana 

 and Oriente Province consume more 

 cigars during 1911 than were sent to the 

 United States. 



Havana Province consumed in the period 

 mentioned 61,411,275 cigars and 226,976,175 

 packages of cigarettes, and Oriente Prov- 

 ince G1,09S,.300 cigars. 



Interior view of the Conchita Mill, Matanzas Province. It is of Cuban ownership and its 



output averages 150,000 bags annually. 



Vistu interior del Ingenio Conchita, en la Provincia de Matanzas. Es propiedad cubana y su 



producciSn asciende d 150,000 sacos de asticar anuales. par termino medio. 



