THE CUBA R E \' I E W 



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September's Trade 



Details of the trade of the United States 

 with Cuba, showing the value of merchan- 

 dise imported from and exported to Cuba 

 during September and the nine months end- 

 ing with September, 1910, compared with 

 1909, have just been completed by the Bu- 

 reau of Statistics of the Department of 

 Commerce and Labor. The figures follow : 

 Month of September 



1910 1909 



Imports $6,579,524 ,$5,641,459 



Exports 4,836,194 3,968,923 



Nine Months Ending Septeviber 



1910 1909 



Imports $117,976,065 $97,524,612 



Exports 41,594,361 34,425,834 



Bedsteads, Springs, Etc. 



U. S. Consul R. E. Haladay, stationed at 

 Santiago, reports that the brass and iron 

 bedsteads used are imported from the 

 United States and England. 



Springs both of woven wire and steel 

 are manufactured on the island from 

 material imported from England and Ger- 

 many. No metallic couches seem to be 

 handled. American wooden folding chairs 

 are on sale, but very little demand is re- 

 ported other than for reading purposes or 

 special occasions. 



Cuba's Coast Survey Work 



What the United States is doing for 

 Cuba in the interest of safe navigation 

 along its coasts is shown in the work of 

 the Cape Cruz Survey Expedition. Said 

 an officer of the expedition recently : "The 

 United States government is doing the 

 work in the interest of navigation ; we take 

 the soundings and make the surveys so as 

 to let the freighters know just what are 

 the conditions. This makes the fourth 

 season we have been here, and it has al- 

 ready cost the United States government 

 about $47,000, and it will take at 

 least four years or possibly six years 

 more to complete the work. We have 

 taken 7,000 miles of soundings on a coast 

 line of 180 miles. It is all done for the 

 benefit of the shipping out of sugar, and 

 Cuba will reap the advantages of the 

 work." 



By decree of the secretary of the treas- 

 ury, the revenue stamps of the series C, 

 No. 10, used on cigarette packages, will be 

 reduced in size when the next order is 

 given. 



Firearms were exported to Cuba from 



the United States as follows : 



1908 $59,751 



1909 $17,424 



Grandes cables, de 10,816 pies de largo, al ser colocados en la bodega de un buque en Nueva 



York. Estos cables se destinan para el ferrocarril inclinado de la Campania Minera Hispano- 



Americana en Felton, provincia de Oriente, en Cuba. 



There are 10,816 feet of wire cable in these immense rolls. They are to be used at Felton for 

 the incline railway for the transportation of iron ore to the coast. 



