i6 



THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



Captain Granville R. For- 

 Sf'ccial tcsciic. United States Army, 



Instructor retired, has accepted from 



for the Cidvcrnor Magoon a comniis- 



Rural sion that carries with it the 



(Juard. (liitics of special instructor to 



the Cuban forces. 



Captain l-ortesque is a relative of Presi- 

 dent Roosevelt, and served with him in the 

 Spanish War in the Rough Riders. He 

 will rank second to Major Herbert Slocum. 



Although a j-oung man. Captain Fortes- 

 cue has seen service in many quarters of 

 the globe. He has a distinguished service 

 medal, granted for gallantry at San Juan 

 Hil!. 



At the outbreak of hostilities between 

 Russia and Japan he was sent to the Far 

 East as military observer with the Japan- 

 ese forces and attached to General Nogi's 

 staff, with the Third Army Corps. In this 

 position he saw the entire siege of Port 

 Arthur and all of the great battles fought 

 in the vicinity of the beleagured city. 



Under the guidance of the President and 

 the War Department, Governor ^lagoon of 

 Cuba is instituting radical reforms in the 

 island soldiery, and in this work Captain 

 P'ortesque will take a prominent part. He 

 will be stationed at Matanzns. 



The new chief engineer in charge of the 

 Gibara waterworks is W. J. Bancus. 



On November ii there were six cases 

 of yellow fever on the island, the last case 

 being that of an American soldier at Ciego 

 dc Avila, Camaguej' province. Private L. H. 

 Woods. 



October receipts were less 

 Cuban than any one month this 

 Mahogany, year so far. There is not a 

 large amount of .wood on 

 the market, and fresh receipts of mahogany 

 of good size should meet with a fairly 

 prompt sale. The arrivals since January i. 

 1907, aggregate 19.597 logs, 'and for Octo- 

 ber 631 logs. The arrivals for September. 

 1907, were 5.516 logs. Prices ranged be- 

 tvt'een 8 and 12. the highest prices going 

 to mahogany from Santiago. More ports 

 were represented in the October arrivals 

 than usual, yet the aggregate number of 

 logs received was less, and 

 Cuban the stock on hand a month 

 Cedar. ago remains practically un- 

 changed.. The arrivals from 

 all places in Cuba up to November i from 

 Jrnuary i was 1 18.715 logs, and for the 

 month of October alone 4.407 logs. Sep- 

 tember's arrivals aggregated 7.958 logs. No 

 wood was received from Nuevitas, Santa 

 Cruz. Cardenas, Zaza, Cienfuegos, Havana 

 or Guantanamo. Prices ranged 71/ to 9. 

 — From George F. Herriman's Trade Report. 



THE new electric plant installed at 

 Guines is now working and the light 

 and power furnished by the company 

 is highly satisfactory. The electric light 

 improvement is one of the many improve- 



ments that have been recently made in 

 Guines, the cciUer of the vegetable zone in 

 the province of Ilavilna. 



The press of Caibarien is 

 Railroad, urging all land owners lo- 

 Electric Plant calcd between Cnibarien and 

 and City Nuevitas to grant the right of 

 .Market for way to the syndicate which 

 Caibarien. proposes to construct a rail- 

 road between Nuevitas and 

 Caibarien which will be known as the 

 Northern Railway. Representative citizens 

 of ^loron, Yaguajay and other nearby 

 cities which will be benefitted by the line 

 are likewise asked to co-operate in the good 

 work of encouraging the syndicate to con- 

 struct the line and to intluonce property 

 owners to help the line, so that the road 

 may be constructed at once. 



The work of reconstructing the electric 

 plant at Caibarien is now nearly finished. 

 The boilers at the plant suffered by an ex- 

 plosion which took place some months ago 

 and three of the galleries had to be recon- 

 structed. 



The Aldermen of Caibarien recently ap- 

 proved the following resolutions : To ap- 

 propriate the sum of $12,000 to rebuilt the 

 public park ; and, To construct a modern 

 city market with all the modern improve- 

 ments, for which purpose the sum of $10,- 

 000 is to be spent. 



WORK on the railroad branch of the 

 Cuba Railroad, which will unite 

 Palma Soriano with San Luis (Ori- 

 ente), are now nearing completion. The 

 cart road which is being constructed by the 

 government is also about finished. 



THE new hotel which 'Sir. Rafael Bor- 

 gella is constructing on Marti S'treet, 

 Palma Soriano will be opened to the 



public within a few wcek^. 



A Cuban stevodnrp at work at Matanzas. 



