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MATANZAS TO HAVE SEVERAL NEW WHARVES : Permission from tlie Govern- 

 ment has been requested by four different parties for tlie erection of wharves in the 

 Bay of Matanzas. The Armour Fertilizer Company is to liave a new spacious wliarf 

 for the handling of its fertilizer cargoes which are brought direct to Cuban ports by 

 Armour-owned vessels. There is also to be a public wharf erected larger than any 

 now in existence in Matanzas, as a means of relief to the importers of that fast- 

 growing city. The wharves are to have warehouses built on them for the accommo- 

 dation of merchandise and for sugar storage. 



MERCHANDISE EXTRACTED FROM HAVANA WHARVES INCREASES DURING 

 MONTH : An interesting report from the Collector of Customs of the Port of Havana 

 indicates that an average of 70,000 packages were extracted from the wharves of 

 Havana daily for the first thv^c weeks of the present month. This is about 6,000 

 per day more than was extracted during the month of September and is a slight indi- 

 cation that the pressure brought to bear on the merchants in this city is beginning 

 to have its good effect. 



AMERICAN CLOTHING MANUFACTURERS TO INCORPORATE IN CUBA: 

 That many clothing firms in the United States are contemplating incorporating in 

 Cuba under Cuban laws seems to be very probable. Large quantities of American 

 clothing are sold in Cuba today and Havana is considered to offer splendid oppor- 

 tunities to the clothing manufacturers for supplying the demands here and also as a 

 manufacturing and distributing center for Central and South America. 



CUBAN PAPER COMPANY PURCHASES MACHINERY: Amiouncement has just been 

 made that the Cuban Paper Company of this city has made purchases in the North 

 in the amount of $400,000 for machinery to equip their paper plant which is in 

 course of erection at the present time. This machinery is to be the very latest 

 manufactured and will turn out all classes of newsprint and commercial paper. 

 The industry is much needed here as there has always been a shortage of paper in 

 Cuba. 



NEW COAL COMPANY FORMED IN CUBA: Under the name of the "Cuban Inter- 

 national Coal Company" and with a capital of $1,000,000, Messrs. William Elwin 

 Minter, Harvey Thompson Lovett and Julio Batiste Gonzalez have organized for the 

 purpose of transporting to Cuba coal Avhich they will offer to the public. The demand 

 for larger quantities of coal on the Island is given as the reason for the inception of 

 this new company, and it is understod that quite a few of the outports of the Island 

 are to be made ports of call for the vessels which they will operate. 



NEW CHEMICAL COMPANY FORMED IN HAVANA: A concern calling itself the 

 "Chemical Products Company" has been formed with an authorized capital of 

 $400,000. This company has just purchased modern machinery for installation in 

 Cuba and is to make a specialty of the elaboration of Sulphate of Soda, Glauber 

 Salts, Caustic Soda, Muriatic Acid and Carbonate of Soda. 



GAIN IN SHIPPING IN HAVANA Assuming that the latter figure will be 



The following data on shipping in about the same for the second six months. 



Havana and New York throws - light on the number of vessels entering New York 



one of the causes for harbor congestion in Harbor in a year will not be double the 



Havana. number entering Havana Harbor. 



The number of foreign vessels entering The island of Cuba has not more than 



Havana harbor in the fiscal year ending one-half the population of New York City. 



June 30 was 2,899. The number of foreign The gain in ^shipping in Havana for 



vessels entering New York harbor in the 1919-20 over 1918-19 was 600 vessels, the 



first six months of this year was 2,572. total figures for 1918-19 being 2,299. 



