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THE CUBA REVIEW 



COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL 



HAVANA S CUSTOMS COLLECTIONS 



The March collections of tiie Havana 

 custom house compare as follows: 



1912 $1,746,462 



1911 1,705,843 



1910 1,662,338 



1909 1,562,486 



1908 1,445,400 



The custom house collections throughout 

 Cuba in 1911 aggregated the sum of $25,- 

 972,349.48, as published in the official bul- 

 letin of the Chamber of Commerce, In- 

 dustry and Navigation of Cuba. According 

 to the same authority the collections were 

 received as follows : 



Havana $18,380,392.88 



Matanzas 859,749.03 



Cardenas 519,286.36 



Sagua 520,636.55 



Caibarien 601.796.84 



Nuevitas 209,271.03 



Gibara 140,985.33 



Banes 68,537.24 



Baracoa 6,345.09 



Guantanamo 293,546.52 



Santiago 1,580,948.28 



Manzanillo '. . 480,090.11 



Santa Cruz 24,243.26 



Tunas 2,053.40 



Trinidad 1,504.39 



Cienfuegos 1,500,081.80 



Batabano 2,941.64 



Nueva Gerona (Isle of Pines) 14,778.65 



Puerto Padre 263,371.32 



Nipe 495,647.80 



Jucaro 6,141.96 



Total $25,972,349.48 



NEW TERMINAL NEARLY READY 



The new station of the Havana Terminal 

 Company on the arsenal grounds will be 

 ready on August 1st, and on and after that 

 date all trains belonging to the United 

 Railways, the Western Railways and the 

 Havana Central will have their terminus 

 there. Seventy-eight trains will leave and 

 enter every day. The old Cristina Station 

 of the Western Railways will then be used 

 as a warehouse for local freight. Offices 

 of the several lines will be in the upper 

 rooms of the new station. 



Officers of the company, a few weeks 

 since, while on a visit of inspection to the 

 work being done, approved of General 

 Manager Orr's proposal to extend the rail- 

 road in Pinar del Rio from Guane Station 

 to the town of Guane, a distance of three 

 kilometers, and also to extend their lines 

 in Santa Clara Province between Esles and 



Cienfuegos, a distance of seven kilometers. 

 This work will be pushed at once and the 

 company expects to have a daily train di- 

 rect from Havana to Cienfuegos by the 

 end of the present year. 



THE RAILROADS OF CUBA 



The roailroads in public service in the 

 republic, according to the Avisador Co- 

 inercial of Havana, are owned by 18 com- 

 panies and their varying distances are given 

 as follows : 



Distance in 

 Name Kilometers 



Unidos de la Habana 1,114 



De Cuba 950 



The Cuban Central 423 



The Western Railway of Havana.... 238 



Guantanamo y Occidente 121 



Havana Central 112 



De Pto. Principe y Nuevitas 74 



De Gibara a Holguin y Chapara 83 



De Jucaro y S. Fernando 77 



De Juragua 58 



De Guantanamo 56 



De Caracas 71 



De Tunas de Zaza a Sti-Spiritus. . . . 39 



De Rodas a Cartagena 23 



De la North American Sugar Co. . . 12 



De Yaguajay 12 



Insular 9 



De Dubrocq 5 



Total 3.477 



Wireless station at Santiago de Cuba. 



