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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



CUBAN RAILWAY MATTERS. 



United Railway Earnings. 



During the week ended July 11, the earn- 

 ings of the United Railways of Havana 

 were £12,816, £1,073 less than the same 

 week in 1907, when collections amounted 

 to £13,899. 



Up to July 11 the United Railways' earn- 

 ings for the year were £20,397, a decrease 

 of £4,276. 



The revenue of the United Railways 

 of Havana and Regla Warehouses, Lim- 

 ited, in the' week ending July i8, amount- 

 ed to £12,488, or £389 less than during 

 the same week of last year. 



Up to the week ending July 18, in the 

 •current economic year of 1908 to 1909, 

 the United Railways collected £31,192, 

 a deficit of £6,873. 



The revenue of the United Railways 

 of Havana and Regla Warehouses, 

 .Limited'!, during the week ending July 25, 

 was £11,349, or £2,161 less than the 

 same week of last year. 



Up to the same week, the earnings 

 of the United Railways were £42,541, a 

 deficit of £8,994 in the current year of 

 1908 to 1909. 



To date the earnings show a deficit of 

 47,920.20, Spanish gold. 



HAVANA ELECTRIC EARNINGS. 



During the week ending July 11, the Ha- 

 ^'ana Electric Railways company's earnings 

 .^amounted to $39,877.90 cy. or $7,652.75 cy. 

 ^jmore than the amount collected during the 

 .--same week the year previous. 



Up to the present the earnings of the 

 7-Havan-a Electric amount to $1,016,088 cy., 

 -an increase as compared with last year of 

 1$90,573.7S cy. 



Frank Steinhardt, general manager of the 

 company, said recently that for the last six 

 months the earnings of the company were 

 $1,127,078.22 as against $638,088.03 for oper- 

 ating expenses showing that the company 

 fiad been run on the basis of 52.05%. 



Fifty odd miles of new overhead wire 

 have been placed in position, and several 

 cars constTucted as well as the road gener- 

 ally improved. The company is now plan- 

 ning to connect Cerro with Vedado by trol- 

 ley, Marianao with Cerro and Guanabacoa 

 with Havana by an overland route. Some 

 of these extensions will be commenced this 

 - year. 



The Old Paula Hospital and Church in 

 Havana, one of the landmarks of the city, 

 will soon be torn down to make way for 

 contemplated improvements of the Havana 

 Central Railway. 



On the site a large warehouse will be built 

 by the railway, which will be an extension 

 of the present warehouse at the waterfront 

 and will cost in the neighborhood of 

 $100,000. 



Certain Cattle to Be Imported Free of 

 Duty. 



A recent decree of Governor Magoon 

 of Cuba fixes the duty on cattle, except 

 those imported for breeding purposes, at 

 $2.25 per 100 kilos gross weight (100 

 kilos equal 220 pounds) and provides 

 that cattle under six years of age im- 

 ported for breeding purposes belonging 

 to the Shorthorn (Durham), Hereford, 

 Aberdeen-Angus, Red Polled, Galloway, 

 Devon, Brown, Swiss, Holstein-Friesian, 

 Jersey, Guernsey, Ayrshire, Zebu, My- 

 sore and Braham breeds, may be im- 

 ported free of duty, and jthat cattle 

 under the above age imported for breed- 

 ing purposes from Porto Rico or the 

 Argentine Republic may enter free of 

 duty, provided the importer proves their 

 origin. 



The Agrarian League petitions that 

 the import duty on cattle be raised to 

 three cents a kilo, and this petiton was 

 supported by municipal councils, public 

 and private corporations, associations of 

 cattle raisers, merchants, etc., Governor 

 Magoon states also that representatives 

 of cattle dealers, representing holdings 

 amounting to 186,000 head of cattle, 

 signed an agreement that the price of 

 cattle on the hoof will not rise above 

 six cents a pound during the months of 

 drouth or five and one-half cents a 

 pound during other months, and that the 

 Meat Sellers' Union of Havana, repre- 

 senting 112 butcher shops, has oflfered 

 to adjust the retail price of meat to the 

 price of live stock. 



The quarantine established some time 

 since by Cuba against the ports of Vene- 

 zuela on account of the bubonic plague, 

 has been extended to all ships coming 

 from Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and 

 Trinidad. It is believed that the quar- 

 antine, together with the increase in the 

 duty on beef will have the effect of keep- 

 ing out South American stock altogether. 



The new ice plant at Cardenas, which 

 cost $60,000, has a capacity of about 

 fifteen tons per day, and is running now 

 almost full blast. It will compare favor- 

 ably with anything of the kind in the 

 United States or Europe. The machin- 

 ery came from the United States. 



The Spanish colony at Camaguey will 

 build a hospital in that city. The corner- 

 stone of the new structure was laid 

 July 25. 



The Cuba Company will build a new sta- 

 tion in Camaguey. Work will begin soon. 



Estrada Raima's health is failing. He 

 recently journeyed to Manzanillo for medi- 

 cal advice. 



