THE CUBA REVIEW 



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THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY S 

 POSSESSIONS IN CUBA 



The United Fruit Company controls from 

 50 to 60 per cent of the tropical fruit trade 

 of this country and is heavily interested in 

 the banana business with Great Britain. 

 Germany, France, Norway and Denmark. 



The company owns 127,470 acres in 

 Cuba. It owns the Saetia Sugar Compan)-, 

 which possesses 33, .567 acres of land ad- 

 joining the property of the Xipe Bay Com- 

 pany in Cuba. It owns practically all of 

 the Xipe Bay Company, owning a cane 

 sugar plantation of 22,000 acres at Xipe, 

 sugar mill and other properties at X'ipe, 

 and controls over 100,000 acres more. Its 

 sugar production is a paying investment, 

 using lands found not so profitable for 

 fruit raising as had been hoped. 



It conducts on its undeveloped lands a 

 large cattle-raising business. 



The company's large properties in Santo 

 Domingo were, according to the tenth an- 

 nual report, disposed of by sale and the 

 proceeds invested in sugar properties in 

 Cuba. These Santo Domingo properties 

 were valued at $.")3.H,0S5 in 1^907. At the 

 same period the Cul)an sugar cane acreage 

 increased from 19,8.57 in 1908 to 24,979 in 

 1909. The Cuban acreage has been found 

 more profitable when planted in sugar cane 

 than in bananas because it is .a bit too far 

 north for profitable banana raising. Whose 

 sugar cane land was bought the reports do 

 not disclose. 



The report states that its sugar mills at 



Banes and Xipe produced 25,000 more bags 

 of sugar than last year. This now comes 

 in at a 2 per cent lower rate of duty. — 

 Boston Globe. 



ANARCHISTS IN CUBA 



The Cuban government is fully aware of 

 the fact that there are a numlier of an- 

 archists in the country who are preaching 

 tlie doctrine of "dj-namite" and doing all 

 that they can to cause the laboring classes 

 to rebel against the industrial classes, says 

 the Haiaiia Post. IMeasures have been 

 taken to see that none of these anarchists 

 are allowed to become citizens. If they 

 are not citizens and make trouble they can 

 he quickly deported, but as Cubans there is 

 not much chance of doing anything against 

 them unless thev are caught in an over act. 



AN HAVANA DAILY S GROWTH 



La Lucha, an Havana daily, began on 

 Alarch 2;)rd the twenty-ninth year of its 

 existence by inaugurating its new home, 

 which comprises two large buildings on 

 Amistad Street, just a half a block from 

 San Rafael Street, where there have been 

 estal)lished the editorial rooms, offices and 

 printing shops. 



La Lucha, founded by Sr. Antonio San 

 ^liguel, revolutionized the newspaper busi- 

 ness in Havana by installing the first web 

 perfecting rotar}^ press in Cuba and im- 

 ported the first Mergenthaler linotype ma- 

 chine, sold south of Florida. 



San Luis. Oiiente Pruvince. Main street showing water wagon, and horses tethered to store doors. 



