THE CUBA REVIEW 



shipping to Habana the actual money received by local collectors. This flow of sma 

 coins to Habana has been checked by a decree dated February 16, 1923, by virtue c 

 which Governmental collections may be deposited in local branches of the Haban 

 banks and remittances made by means of drafts. 



The Cuban Treasurer-General has issued a statement suggesting that American frac 

 tional money be segregated with a view to arranging for its exchange for other mone 

 with the United States Treasury. He favours the prohibition of the importation c 

 American silver, nickel, or bronze coins by persons entering Cuba in excess of $5 fc 

 each person. In order to force the use of Cuban silver, he advocates prohibiting th 

 importation of American $1 bills. 



Cuban Tobacco Veg-a in Pinar del Rii 



World's Tobacco Comes From (Pinar del 

 Rio Prov.) Western Cuba 



By Alvin Fox: B.Sc-Ph'd. 

 Agric. Botanist 



Pinar del Rio tobacco soothes the nerves of men of affairs the world over. There 

 are all kinds of tobacco-growers, from the rich "veguero," with scores of acres of the 

 finest Vuelta Abajo wrapper, grown under cheese-cloth, to the poor thatched-hut dweller, 

 with his little patch that produces nothing but cheap filler. 



Profits in growing tobacco are proportionate to the care expended in its cultivation. 

 The poor denizen of the low country may get $50 out of his acre, while the rich "Vega" 

 of the rolling upland region may bring its owner $5,000 an acre. 



The finest tobacco lands in Pinar del Rio are on the south side of the range of 

 mountains that extend through the province from east to west, midway between the Gulf 

 of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, in a well-watered, rolling country, full of natural 

 beauty and possessed of a climate as mild and sweet as the fragrance of the cigar whose 

 raw material grows there. The soil is chocolate-colored, from two to ten feet, and gets 

 its peculiar qualities from the volcanoes that once were active there. 



