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THE CUBA RE r I E TV 



Water Filters 



There is an excellent demand in Cuba 

 for water filters and this demand is being 

 met almost exclusively by American manu- 

 facturers. Receptacle filters having the 

 largest sales are of 1 -gallon capacity, 

 although there' is also a market for re- 

 ceptacle filters of greater capacity — up to 

 6 gallons. Retail prices for receptacle 

 filters range from about $6 (for the 1 -gal- 

 lon size) to about $16 (for the 6-gallon 

 size). These filters are sold almost ex- 

 clusively by hardware dealers. 



The preferred type of faucet filter is 

 cylindrical and made of metal with an 

 earthenware core. Prices range from $4 

 to $8. Types which use gravel, paper, or 

 cloth for filtering are not in demand. 

 Filters are carried by dealers in sanitary 

 supplies and by hardware dealers. 



The sustained drought of the past year 

 at Santiago de Cuba has resulted in a 

 serious lowering of the quality of water 

 there, with a consequent increase in the 

 demand for filters. The newspaper cam- 

 paign against the municipal water supply 

 of Habana has also had its effect in in- 

 creasing sales of filters in the latter city 

 during recent months. — Acting Commercial 

 Attache Paul L. Edwards, Habana. 



Firearms 



About 90 per cent of the firearms and 

 ammunition purchased by Cuba comes 

 from the United States. While quantities 

 imported during 1921 and the first part of 

 1922 were considerably less, Cuban condi- 

 tions have now improved to such an extent 

 that it is again a good potential market for 

 all types of such commodities. The island 

 affords excellent hunting for deer, wild 

 boars, crocodiles, ducks and other game, 

 and this sport is much indulged in through- 

 out practically the entire year. — Consid 

 General Carlton Bailey Hurst, Habana, 

 June 8. 



Timberlands in Cuba 



The Statesman's Yearbook for 1922 es- 

 timates that there are about 1,250,000 

 acres of Government-owned forest lands 

 in Cuba, principally in Camaguey and 

 Oriente Provinces. 



The Cuba Northern Railway has re- 

 cently opened a strip of land from Moron 



to Nuevitas that is being rapidly cleared of 

 forest for growing sugar cane, and this 

 road plans extension eastward to the city 

 of Baracoa, which will open another area 

 of good timber country. 



There are said to be valuable timber 

 tracts along a new line of the Cuba Rail- 

 road Co. from Vertientes to the port of 

 Santa Cruz del Sur, a former important 

 shipping point for Spanish cedar until the 

 length of haul by dirt road became too 

 great. The unofficial estimate of the total 

 lumber available gives about 4,000,000 

 board-feet each of this cedar and of ma- 

 hogany, with a large cut of such hard- 

 woods as acana, sabicu, dagame, majagua, 

 lignum-vitas, lancewood, etc., with many 

 thousands of railway crossties as by- 

 product. 



Most Land Cleared for Sugar Cane 



Most land is cleared incidental to plant- 

 ing sugar cane, and the feUing is done 

 either by the sugar mills themselves with 

 their own labor or under contract. Trees 

 are expected to be cleared out in the 

 shortest possible time, and the lumber 

 taken out is rather salvaging than sys- 

 tematic business. Railway ties, telegraph 

 poles, and posts for house buildings are 

 among the important and easily sold prod- 

 ucts of mills established in the vicinity, 

 but in the aggregate a good deal of 

 Spanish cedar, mahogany, and other hard- 

 woods is shipped to the various ports. 



No statement has been found as to 

 stand of timber on the Government lands 

 nor as to exact location of the tracts. A 

 considerable amount of resinous pine exists 

 in Pinar del Rio Province, and in the Isle 

 of Pines several small sawmills and one or 

 two manufacturers of veneer crates are 

 working on this lumber. Much of this 

 pine is shipped in the rough to various 

 mines in Cuba for props and a part is 

 worked into dimension boards employed 

 for forms in concrete construction. — Trade 

 Commissioner Frank E. Coombs, Habana. 



Will Burn Garbage 



Secretary of Public Works Sandoval has 

 bought three incinerators, which will be 

 installed by the health department and 

 used to burn garbage collected in Havana. 



