THE CUBA REVIEW 



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Laden cars waiting at the Francisco mill, Camaguev Province. 



1909, 107,469 bags. 



-\merican ownership. Output in 



Leon, for $1,266,950; Francisco Gustavo 

 la Rosa, for $1,716,062. 



The total amount allowed to the claim- 

 ants has been $1,330,877.74, which is $60,- 

 340,200.04 less than the amount of dam- 

 ages alleged, with nine cases now re- 

 maining undecided. — New Orleans (La.) 

 Picaj'une. 



Nothing can hurt Cuba, in the opinion 

 of the Havana Telegraph. Neither the 

 "sinister acts" of the present Administra- 

 tion or the mistakes of Congress or in- 

 dividuals can do any lasting harm. It 

 says further: "While these things are 

 being done by native politicians, foreign 

 capitalists from across the Straits of 

 Florida are quietly acquiring the coun- 

 try's lands and developing the country's 

 resources, and shall Macaulay's New 

 Zealand, after sketching the ruins of St. 

 Paul's take aeroplane for this more 

 genial clime, he will find here a very 

 live and flourishing Cuba." 



Immigration to Cuba for 1908 totalled 

 27,990 persons, of which 22,369 were 

 males. 21,755 were able to read and 

 write; 83 could read but not write; 6,161 

 could neither read nor write. 12,011 had 

 more than $30.00 each and 15,988 had 

 less than $30,00. — Cuban Government 

 Statistics. 



Mass meetings were held in Sagua 

 early in February to protest against the 

 stoppage of work on the dyke planned 

 to protect the city from the river's over- 

 flow, which occurs often during the 

 rainy season. 



U. S. Minister to Cuba Edwin V. Mor- 

 gan said recently: "Cuba is the kind of 

 a place that one likes to get back to. 

 The question in Cuba is largely an eco- 

 nomic one, rather than a political one. 

 We must not judge the Cuban Govern- 

 ment by our own standard, for the gov- 

 ernment here is but the product of 

 months, while that of our own country 

 is the result of years of work. But it is 

 practically nothing but the details that 

 are lacking here; and where the main 

 essentials are all right, as in Cuba, a 

 country is solidly on its feet." 



Dr. N. L. Britton, director-in-chief of 

 the New York Botanical Garden, and 

 Percy Williams, his assistant, left New 

 York for Cuba, February 17, to study 

 Cuban plants. They will be joined at 

 Cienfuegos by Prof. F. S. Earle, well 

 known in Cuba. The party will devote 

 its efforts mainly to the Province of 

 Santa Clara in the Trinidad Mountains, 

 which are an almost unknown field to 

 the botanist. They will remain until 

 March. 



Present conditions in the sugar crop 

 indicate that the optimistic estimates of 

 September and October of 1,850,000 to 

 2,000,000 tons are not likely to be real- 

 ized, but it is probable that the crop will 

 break all records, exceeding last year by 

 from 150,000 to 200,000 tons. The indi- 

 cation is that there will be a maximum 

 output of 1,700,000 tons. 



Approximately one-third of the crop is 

 now above ground, giving a reasonable 

 foundation for an estimate of the total 

 output. 



