THE CUBA REVIEW. 



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Camaguey Province. 



1907. 



Camaguey 29,622 



Ciego de Avila 4.242 



Moron 2,527 



Nuevitas 4,307 



Santa Cruz del Sur 1,646 



Minas 1,387 



Total 43,731 



Matanzas Province. 



. 1907. 



Alacranes 2,862 



Lima 1,087 



Bolondron ^-5 79 



Guira 1,^52 



Cardenas 21., 071 



Colon 7jI2S 



25,102 

 2,919 

 2,084 

 4,22s 

 1,210 



1899. 



612 



2,604 



1,676 



21,940 



7,175 



Banaquises 



Manguito 



Calimete 



Amarillas 



San Jose de los Ramos . . . 



Agramonte 



Perico 



Jaguey Grande 



jovallanos 



Carlos Rojas 



Maximo Gonez 



^latanzas 35 



Limonar , 



Santa Ana 



Pedro Pet'niourt , 



Union de Reyes 3 



Total 105 



646 



THE FIRST AMERICAN COLONY. 



La Gloria colony, in reality, consists 

 of eight American colonies, located in 

 the Cubitas Valley, between Mar del 

 Norte bay and the Cubitas mountains, 

 on the north coast of Camaguey Prov- 

 ince (formerly Puerto Principe). 



The colony proper, comprises about 

 28,000 acres, and has a frontage of per- 

 haps ten miles on the bay, a land-locked 

 body of water more than one hundred 

 miles long. Port Viaro is the colony's 

 gateway for importations and exporta- 

 tion s. 



From Port Viaro in a south-westerly 

 direction, a boulevard, 80 to 100 feet 

 wide, has been designed and surveyed 

 to the Cubitas mountains, some thirteen 

 miles away. 



About four and one-half miles from 

 this bay is La Gloria, its elevation vary- 

 ing from SO to 200 feet above sea level. 

 At the present time (1908) it has a 

 population of about 700 — including the 

 near-by plantations, with about 300 more 

 settled in the surrounding colonies. 

 About ninety per cent, of the residents 

 are English speaking. 



It has 130 frame buildings and quite 

 a number of adaptations of the Cuban 

 palm house. The daily needs of the 

 people are supplied by nine stores. The 

 bi-monthly "La Gloria Cuban-Ameri- 

 can," printed and published in the town 

 for over three years, is the only news- 

 paper printed in the English language in 

 Cuba, outside of Havana. 



Visitors are provided for at three ho- 

 tels. The postofifiice money order de- 

 partment transacts a large volume of 

 business. 



La Gloria is fortunate in the posses- 

 sion of an unusually good primary 

 school, taught by an American certified 

 teacher, and largely supported by a gen- 

 erous donation from the Cuban govern- 

 ment. The town owns its school house, 

 a large frame buildine erected bv the 



subscriptions and voluntary labor of the 

 townspeople. 



At the iirst yearly exhibition of the 

 Cuban National Horticultural Society, 

 held at Havana in January, 1908, out of 

 a possible twenty-eight prizes offered 

 for fruit exhibits for the whole island. 

 La Gloria was awarded ten. At the 

 Horticultural Exhibition held in Havana 

 in March last. La Gloria gained the first 

 iri/e, a silver cup, for the best collec- 

 tion of fruits and vegetables. 



Transportation facilities are rapidly 

 improving. The government-built boule- 

 vard from town to port is nearly com- 

 pleted and will be in actual use long 

 before shipping season, as will also the 

 enlarged and deepened Sabinal canal. 



With the citrus trees already planted 

 here, and the -contemplated plantings 

 for this and next year, there will be a 

 million boxes of fruit for export in five 

 years from now. At the present time 

 the La Gloria Transportation Co. has 

 a steamer plying along the Mar del 

 Norte bay, and has in contemplation the 

 building of a larger and faster steamer. 



The Boston colony iminediately ad- 

 joins La Gloria on the south. It has 

 over 500 acres now planted to citrus 

 fruits, representing about 40,000 trees. 

 The oldest orchards are three years old. 

 They are held by small owners almost 

 wholly in five and ten-acre pieces. 



Garden City is directly south of La 

 Gloria about five miles. The tract con- 

 tains about 3.000 acres, with 400 acres 

 planted to citrus fruits. 



Columbia-on-the-Bay is located on the 

 bay, about five miles east. It has the 

 largest hotel in this section. 



Piloto-on-the-Bay, about five miles to 

 the west, is as yet but little developed. 



The other colonies in the valley are 

 Santa Rosa, Bay View, and Palm City. 

 — Condensed from the L? Gloria Cuban- 

 American. 



