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THE CUBA REVIEW 



RAILROAD AND COMMERCIAL NEWS 



TRADE IN BOOTS AND SHOES, POTATOES AND COAL — AUGUST IMPORTS 



AND EXPORTS, ETC. 



Boots and Slioes August Imports and Exports 



Cuba buvs more shoes from the United Details of the trade of the United States 

 States than Spain, France, Germany and ^^''th. Cuba durms? August and for the 

 England combined, although some vears eight months ending with August, 1910, 

 ago Spain had a most decided lead. The compared with the corresponding period of 

 trade of he United States with the island the preceding year, has just been corn- 

 is growing, according to the figures issued pletcd by the Bureau of Statistics of the 

 by the U. S. Department of Commerce and ^- S. Department of Commerce and La- 

 Labor The exports shown are those for bor. They are as follows: 

 July and for the seven months ended July imports 

 31st, compared with 1900. ^ 



July, 1909 $226,569 ^fonth of August.. $8,298,925 $11,312,062 



J"'y' l^l*^ $-^^'*^^ Eight months 91,883,153 111,396,541 



Seven months, 1909 $1,827,869 



Seven months, 1910 .... $1,910,385 exports 



The last available figures from Cuban 



sources are for the fiscal years 1907-09 and Month of August.. $4,27.-.,O80 $5,228,448 



1908-09. and importations are as follows : Eight months ."^0,456,911 36,758,167 



FOR MEX * 



1907-08 190S-09 India's Duty on Tobacco 



United States $986,712 $1,046,321 -ri /- , n i . r- i .. t r u 



Spain 402.363 292,402 Vl^ 5">''" ^0"^"^ ^^ Calcutta, India, has 



France 1,205 133 "^^ihed the state department that the gov- 



United Kingdom 52 17 ,7"".^^"^ of India has imposed a duty on 



* the importation of foreign tobacco of two 



FOR woMEX and one-half rupes per pound. This 



1907-08 190S-09 amounts to about S3 cents American gold, 



United States $1,311,729 $l".207,590 ^"^ '^^ considered prohibitive to Cuban to- 



Spain 177,165 142,626 ^'^^"° °^'''"S ^^ '"^h shipping rates. 



France 1.395 1,916 — 



United Kingdom .... 34 3 g^^^j^^ j^ P^^^^^ 



FOR CHILDREN Tl XJ n A T7y . ■ r 



ion- n« ion« no ^"^ Havana Gas and Electric Company 



JJU.-U& ijufe-uy recently closed a contract for 000 tons of 



Lnited States $443,738 $376,577 4., 6- and S-inch gas pipe with French 



Spain 110,605 74,228 founders. The price, delivered, including 



France 44 ... dutv, is reported to be close to $28 per 



United Kingdom 12 ... ton, netting the French works scarcely $18 



The United States' only competitor seems per ton. United States bids were about 



to be Spain and that country is now hope- two dollars per ton higher than foreign 



lessly distanced. quotations. 



Cuba's Consumption of Potatoes 



The island of Cuba consumes 400,000 

 barrels of potatoes annually, more than 

 one-half of which is shipped from Canada, 

 principall}- from the maritime provinces of 

 Xew Brunswick and Xova Scotia. A ware- 

 house is maintained at Kabana by the Xew 

 Brunswick government and a similar con- 

 cern will likely be established by the Xova 

 Scotia government. Large consignments 

 of_ fish, oats, lumber. ;md flour are also 

 shipped annually from Canada to Cuba.- — 

 V. S. Consular Report 



Coal exportations of the United States 

 to Culja in 1909 were 688,991 tons. These 

 figures do not include coke. — U. S. Bureau 

 of Manufacturers. 



The railroad commission has approved 

 the plans of the Yumuri, Matanzas and 

 Bellamar Railroad Company for the con- 

 struction of a trolley line in and around 

 Matanzas. reaching the caves and the Yu- 

 muri \'alley. This is a project long con- 

 sidered. ^Ir. Albert Wright is the rep- 

 resentative of the companj\ 



