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THE CUBA REVIEW 



ALL AROUND CUBA 



CIENFUEGOS SPORTS ASSOCIATION 



This organization has been recently formed 

 to promote sporting events in the city of 

 Cienfuegos. The following are the officers 

 and directors of the new association: Presi- 

 dent, Licenciado Emilio del Real; Vice- 

 President, Senor Jose Ferrer; Secretary, 

 Dr. Mario Nunez Mesa; Treasurer, Don 

 Nicolas del Castano; Directors, Senores 

 Don Acisclo del Valle, Licenciado Alfonso 

 Ramos, Enrique Robian, Amador Bengochea 

 .and Dr. Alvaro Suero, all well known citizens. 



CUBA'S BUTTERFLIES 



"Cuba is a butterfly collector's paradise 

 and I think of no other spot of its size in all 

 the world where such gorgeously beautiful 

 species can be found. Even the common 

 species have a brilliancy of coloring and a 

 gracefulness of wing that places them far 

 above the average finds. From your tiniest 

 Uttle ones, no larger than a fly, to your 

 grent winged creatures that might almost 

 be classed as birds, that there is a beauty 

 and range of color that is a delight." — Dr. 

 Allie B. Wiemer, University of Nebraska. 



COFFEE PLANTERS IN CUBA 



The coffee growers of Cuba, who have their 

 plantations largely in Oriente Province, are 

 suffering Uke other industries from the inter- 

 ference with business conditions caused by 

 the war in Europe. 



It is said that two-thirds of the owners of 

 the 2,950 plantations will abandon the culti- 

 vation of coffee. 



Money is scarce with them, and the banks 

 will not lend except at the rate of 1 to 5 per 

 cent monthly, and even at that interest they 

 cannot get enough funds. They suggest the 

 estabhshing of farmers' banks where loans 

 can be negotiated on an 8 per cent per annum 

 basis. They feel that these loans can be 

 paid inside of three years. 



Last year's crop amounted to 3,600,000 

 pounds, of which 2,182 pounds were exported, 

 the balance being required for home consump- 

 tion. 



The coffee imports of the republic for the 

 fiscal year 1912-13 were as follows: 



Pounds 



United States 2,947,208 



Puerto Rico 19,479,020 



Brazil & Mexico 38,227 



Venezuela 104,889 



22,571,969 



The cultivation of coffee in Cuba is being 



carried on by but few planters, whose farms 



are distributed among the provinces of the 



island as follows, Oriente Province leading: 



Oriente Province 



Produclion 

 Zones Farms Quintals 



Alto Songo 1,000 100,000 



Guatanamo 700 50,000 



Palma Soriano 600 80,000 



Cobre 250 30,000 



Caney 200 12,000 



Jiguani 200 7,000 



Baracoa No data 8,000 



Sagua de Tanamo No data 4,000 



Santa Clara Province 



Production 

 Farms Quintals 



Cienfuegos No data 8,000 



Trinidad No data 2,000 



Pinar del Rio Province 



Pinar del Rio No data 15,000 



The total production was 316,000 quintals. 

 According to this table which was compiled 

 by the National Association of Coffee Pro- 

 ducers, with headquarters at Santiago, some 

 25,000 persons find employment in this indus- 

 try. 



A NEW WATER AND POWER COMPANY 



The Caibarien Remedies Water & Power 

 Company was incorporated at Tallapasee, 

 Florida, under the laws of the State of Florida 

 on November 21, by C. F. Flynn, President, 

 P. A. Van Agnew, Vice-President and Walter 

 Mucklow, Secretary and Treasurer. 



The principal office of the company will be 

 in the city of Jacksonville, Fla. The direc- 

 tors wiU establish branches in other places as 

 may seem necessary. 



The object of the association is to obtain 

 water by purchase by digging wells, or by any 

 other proceeding to construct tanks or tun- 

 nels for water to install a pumping plant and 

 to supply water to manufacturers, corpora- 

 tions and individuals for fire service, or for 

 manufacturing and domestic uses, and to col- 

 lect all fees and rents. 



The same apphes to gas plants, electric 

 plants, ice plants, etc. 



Capital authorized is $750,000 divided in 

 7,500 bonds of the value of $100,000. $500,- 

 000 will be common stock and $250,000 will be 

 preferred at 8% annually. 



Fire destroyed the warehouses and stock 

 of the West Indies Fertihzer Co. at Los 

 Indios, Isle of Pines on November 17. No 

 cause can be assigned for the fire. The loss 

 is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 

 $6,000. 



Central Andreita will begin to grind at the 

 end of December and "Manohta" early in 

 January. 



