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THE CUBA REVIEW 



in those mountains and harry them until their negro master makes the kill, or as is 

 often the case is himself killed. In the last case the dog will stay for days watching 

 and starving, until help comes. These boars, huge fellows, four feet high at the 

 shoulder, with tusks eight to ten inches long, are vicious only when attacked. We 

 saw their spoor many times. 



"Incidentally we tapped some bread fruit and some chicle trees while at the plantation. 

 The latter gave a fair grade of chicle, while the former produced an exceedingly sticky 

 gum that may or may not have contained a certain amount of rubber. 



"Finally the day came for our return to Baracoa. We said our good-byes not only 

 to Salvador and his family, but to all of the neighbors for miles around who had come 

 in for the purpose. After a delightful boat ride we reached the city safely, from 

 whence we sailed on the 'Gibara' for Preston on Nipe Bay." — Matter and illustrations 

 from the India Rubber World, New York. 



FRUIT CROPS IN BARACOA 



Statistics from Baracoa are to the effect 

 that the production of bananas in the 

 present fiscal year will be considerably 

 larger than last year, the exportations 

 being estimated at 1,200,000 bunches and 

 for the next fiscal year it is expected that 

 the exportations to the United States will 

 reach 2,000,000 bunches, unless the present 

 ■disturbance in this section prevents. 



The production of cacao and coffee in 

 the country around Baracoa will likewise 

 show a large increase this year over 1911. 

 Unexampled weather during the year has 

 favored the growers. 



El Dia, an Havana daily, quotes a con- 

 gressman as saying that a company has 

 been organized in Jacksonville to furnish 

 several hundred Italians for Cuban tobacco 

 growers in the Pinar del Rio Province, 

 and that it is planned to smuggle them into 

 Cuba on steamers used by a local coal com- 

 pany in the guise of members of the crew. 



Laborers are scarce in the province, due 

 to a succession of crop failures, which have 

 driven many families to other parts of the 

 island. 



Messrs. Champion and Pascual, the well- 

 known merchants and contractors of Ha- 

 vana, are the new owners of Guajaba 

 Island on the north coast of Camaguey 

 Province. They are to develop the prop- 

 erty, as it lies directly across the bay and 

 only five miles from Port Viaro. It is 

 fifteen miles long from east to west and 

 an average of six miles wide, and previous 

 to the devastation of war and subsequent 

 desertion it was inhabited and cultivated 

 to sugar cane and other products. A 

 military road ran across the island and 

 on the summit of an elevation an army 

 look-out was built. Remains of all these 

 still exist. In the centuries long ago the 

 island and channels at each extremity were 

 haunts of smugglers. It is now one of the 

 most frequented points of our excursion- 

 ists. There is a small collection of Cuban 

 homes on the south coast. — La Gloria 

 Cuban-American. 



AERIAL COAST DEFENCE 



Lieutenant Arsenio Ortiz, a young Cuban 

 army officer, is to be the pioneer in the 

 aerial cost defence scheme of the Cuban 

 government. 



Filibusters, it is anticipated, will find the 

 difficulties of their trade on the Cuban coast 

 vastly increased by the creation of an 

 aerial patrol of the same character as the 

 United States army officials are about to 

 create, says the Neiv York Herald. 



Those landing arms, which has been ac- 

 complished despite the watchfulness of the 

 Cuban gunboats, will find another chain of 

 sentinels of greater speed and range of 

 vision in the flying coast guard. 



The machine selected for the purpose is 

 the hydro-aeroplane of the type used with 

 success by the United States navy for 

 more than a year. Lieutenant Ortiz was 

 sent by the Cuban government to the train- 

 ing ground of Glenn H. Curtiss, at Ham- 

 mondsport, N. Y., to learn the use of the 

 Curtiss marine aeroplane. He is making 

 rapid progress. 



ICE MANUFACTURING PLANT 



The town of Colon, Cuba, is putting in 

 an iee factory. It is a ten-ton plant and 

 only destined to supply the needs of that 

 town. The placing of ice plants in a hun- 

 dred or more little towns such as Colon 

 ought to be a good business, because there 

 is practically no ice manufactured in Cuba 

 outside of the big cities. In towns of 

 10,000 and more inhabitants within a radius 

 of forty miles of Havana, the supply comes 

 from Havana. Until recently, when com- 

 petition began, ice sold in suburban towns 

 around Havana at $1.00 a hundred. 



Exports c f cotton piece goods from the 

 United Kingdom to Cuba for the first four 

 months of the years 1910, 1911 and 1912, 

 are stated in millions of yards as follows : 



Printed goods Dyed goods 



1910 5,100,000 yards 10,000,000 yards 



1911 5,900,000 " 6,900,000 



1912 9,200,000 " 10,700,000 



