78 THECUBAREVIEW. 



Synopsis of Reports by different Land 

 Companies respecting their Prop- 

 erties in Cuba. 



F()R tlic infoniiatidii of our readers, we iiiteml printini; eacli mniilli a suiiiniary of 

 llic salient points of the various land propositions in Cuba, now Ijeforc the public, 

 and submit the first installment in this issue. We regret that much valuable 

 information of this kind came late and could not be placed, as our space was 

 limited, but a portion will be printed each month. These sunuiiaries are taken from the 

 printed reports issued by the companies. — Editor Cub.\ Review. 



The Jaragua Plantation. 

 Owners, The Taco Bay Commercial Co., of Boston, Mass. 



THE JARAGUA PLANTATION is located on the north coast of the Province of 

 Santiago, fifteen miles to the west of the city of Baracoa. has a five mile ocean 

 frontage, watered by four rivers, and embrace three harbors, one of which, 

 known as Taco Bay, is pre-eminently the best landlocked harbor of its size on 

 the north coast of Cuba. This harbor has ample depth of water for every requirement. 



The officers are reputable and well-known business men. After a careful and most 

 exhaustive research, the "Jaragua Plantation" of 20,000 acres of the finest banana, cocoa- 

 nut, and sugar cane land was purchased. The title is perfect and has eeen recorded 



IN BOTH THE CITIES OF SANTIAGO AND BaRACOA. ThE PROPERTY HAS BEEN PAID FOR IN FULL, 

 AND NO BONDS, MORTGAGE, OR PREFERRED STOCK HAS BEEN ISSUED AGAINST IT. 



The Company is capitalized for $500,000, divided into 50,000 shares, par value ten 

 dollars ($10.00) per share, of which 25,000 shares, $250,000, is now in the Treasury. The 

 best legal talent, Messrs. Runcie and Lamar at Havana, together with Messrs. Dickinson, 

 Farr and Dickinson, of Boston, Mass., were employed to clear up the title, discharging 

 all liens and mortgages which then existed, so that this Company holds an absolute title 

 to the property. This plantation, previously one of the most successful and prosperous 

 in the island, was during the war and others which followed, devastated by both the 

 Cuban and Spaniard, so that when the Taco Bay Commercial Company purchased it, 

 it was in but a semi-state of cultivation. Bananas, cacao, oranges and cocoanuts, under 

 practically no cultivation whatever, were growing. The Company marketed during its 

 first year of ownership, which ended October 15, 1905, over 200,000 cocoanuts. 



PRODUCTS NOW GROWING ON THE PLANTATION. 



Cocoanuts : During the year 1906 we expect to market from our own plantation 

 approximately a half million nuts. 



Cacao : We have growing on our plantation some 7.500 trees. The crop is gath- 

 ered twice a year, during December and July. We are told that this season's crop is 

 in splendid condition, and of first-class quality. 



Bananas : During the many years that this plantation was imder a high state of 

 cultivation, the valleys lying in the interior and near the western boundary were planted 

 to bananas, both the red and the Johnson (yellow). We are told that the owners at 

 ♦^hat time shipped frotn 40,000 to 50.000 bunches of each variety yearly. 



At the present time some 30,000 sub-plants, the red and the Johnson (yellow), are 

 growing wild in these same valleys. These will furnish all the plants the Company will 

 require in order to set a proposed acreage to bananas. 



Oranges : There are great numbers of fully developed orange trees throughout a 

 large portion of the property, from Taco Bay to the Jiguani River, the extreme eastern 

 and western boundaries of our property. These trees, though bearing sour fruit, are 

 extremely valuable for grafting purposes. 



By grafting these mature orange trees with sweet orange or grape-fruit stock, the 

 highest quality of both the sweet orange and the grape-fruit is produced in two years* 



