THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



Views e.f colonists' hemes at Omaja, Cuba, distant some 100 miles west of Santiago de Cuba. 

 No. 1, residence of L. X. Kreider; No. 2, of C. Plant; No. 3. of W. P. Felker; No. 4 shows the lay 

 of the land on the town site; No. 5, house of E. C. Pierson; No. 6, temporary station and office, 

 facing the tracks of the Cuba Railroad and built by the Colony officials. 



NOTES FROM OMAJA. 



The colonists here are all busily at 

 work. They are a hardworking, indus- 

 trious class, skilled in profitable farm 

 work, with their homes and acreage 

 mostly in a flourishing condition. The 

 land south of the station is largely savan- 

 na, somewhat despised by the Cubans, 

 who laughed at the idea of the Ameri- 

 cans attempting to raise anything in 

 such poor soil. But their opinions 

 changed when they saw the fine gar- 



dens of Mr. Kreider and Mr. Plant. All 

 kinds of vegetables, fruits, melons. Rocky 

 Fords and watermelons of excellent 

 quality and size, bananas, oranges and 

 grape-fruit all growing lustily and yield- 

 ing satisfactorily, filled the cleared 

 ground. Air. Plant found that much 

 rain had a tendency to make the melons 

 grow so fast that they cracked when 

 near ripe. Otherwise he had had fine 

 success. 



