THE CUBA REVIEW 



on tlic groiiiul tliat it was tlic law and 

 should nut be violated. 



The new Secretary of Agriculture Mar- 

 tinez Orliz is being petitioned to annul the 

 effects of the law's provision and direct 

 that searches be allowed. 



In the hope of getting coni- 



Cuba pet cut farmers to settle in 



IVauts Cuba, who will become per- 



Fannrrs manent residents of the 



country and not leave after 



they have made their "pile," the Cuban 



government is considering a scheme of 



bringing about 200 families from the Ca 



nary Islands and other Spanish possession ~ 



to Cuba and donating farms to them. 



The plan is to pay transportation oi' 

 these men, furnish them with farms ol 

 from 10 to 20 acres, tinance tiiem until 

 they become self-supporting, and linally tn 

 tax them a small amount annually until 

 they have paid back the money that the 

 government has actually spent on them. 



Xo sui":h inducements are held out to 

 American farmers because they show no 

 disposition to become Cuban citizens. The 

 government is preparing an elaborate plan 

 of national irrigation and a gigantic rec- 

 lamation work on lands tiiat are overflowed 

 every year. 



Messrs. Foyo, Calzada and Arango have 

 gone to Europe, commissioned by the 

 government to open an Immigration Bu- 

 reau, the lirst of its kind established by the 

 Cuban government, in the city of Corunna, 

 Spain. 



Which leads the Havana Telegraph to 

 comment editorially as follows : "Cuba in- 

 stead of spending money to bring people 

 to her shores, might easily procure a vast 

 tide of settlers with money by the simple 

 expedient of asking annexation to the 

 United States. With the Stars and Stripes 

 floating over Morro Castle and the assur- 

 ance that it was there to stay, Cuba would 

 quickly be invaded by tens and hundreds 

 of thousands of intelligent, thrifty Amer- 

 icans of enterprise and of means, and her 

 development would be of magical rapidity." 



Si-. I.do. Mario Cnrcia Kulily Sarctano ,/<■ 



/ )islnicci6ii Piiblica y Bellas Artes dc la Re- 



f'ubtica dc Cuba. 



S. Mario C.arcia Kolily, Ctilia's Secretary of Public 

 Instruction. 



The syndicate of French 



Rk'al bankers doing business in 



Ba'ik the Argentine Republic and 



Syndicate Brazil, who asked a few 



months ago for a conces- 

 sion to establish a mortgage and improve- 

 ment bank in Cuba, have again asked the 

 government to extend the term allowed 

 them to start business, which was soon to 

 expire, iays the Nezv York Herald. The 

 matter was referred to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, with the recommendation that 

 an extra ttrm of ninety days be allowed. 

 These bankers have also asked for modifi- 

 cation in the laws affecting tliis kind of 

 corporation. The laws in question provide 

 that all mortgages on plantations and 

 agricultural enterprises may equal half the 

 value of the estate or plantation encum- 

 bered thereby and that the capital invested 

 in banking concerns of this kind must re- 

 main in Cuba. 



Puente de acero y de hormigon en el rio Almendares, ya terniinado, v que une a la 



Habana y Marianao. El costo total de su coxstrucciov ascendio a 217,000. Tiene 



una longitiid de 700 pies y una aiiehura de 44^ pies. 



New bridge over the Almendares River, uniting Havana and Marianao. It has just been completed. 



