3,ooo or 4000 boxes of oranges and other 

 fruit. His output represents about one- 

 third of the entire output of the colony, 

 which Mr. Wilson estimated would reach 

 about 15,000 boxes of fruit, oranges, grape- 

 fruit, tangerines, etc. 



There are no data showing what percent- 

 age of these non-resident holdings are be- 

 ing improved, but it is probably a small 

 one. Neither is there data giving accurate 

 information as to what is being done by 

 residents with their own holdings other 

 than that conveyed by the information that 

 the colony after seven years will pick about 

 11,000 or 12,000 boxes of citrus fruits. There 

 is not much money in the community, con- 

 tinued Mr. Wilson, and those who are earn- 

 ing some in caring for other people's farms 

 are improving their holdings as rapidly as 

 possible. 



There is some income from garden prod- 

 uce, sold in town and in neighboring vil- 

 lages. But the home market is limited and 

 Camaguey, a large city with about 25,000 

 inhabitants at the 1899 census, is some 40 

 miles awiay, and the haul is a long one 

 and transportation charges high. How 

 much this local and Camaguey trade 

 amounts to Mr. Wilson could not say, 

 neither could he say how many of the resi- 

 dents were living ofif of the products of 

 their acreage and making the farm pay. 

 Others again seek employment at teaming, 

 logging and freighting, and earn something 

 that way. Asked if he could cite one case 

 v/herein a settler's condition had signally 

 improved, he gave the case of a barber, 

 v/ho worked his farm, plied his trade, dab- 

 bled in real estate until he is worth about 

 $6,000 in cash and real estate. There may 

 be others equally prosperous, but at all 

 events, everyone has benefited by the great 

 increase in property values. La Gloria has 

 aavanced considerably and when the forest 

 roads are completed and the water-ways 

 deepened it will take another long step 

 forward, and every one familiar with the 

 heroic struggles and the unflinching cour- 

 age and energy displayed by this colony, 

 vTill heartily wish it all the prosperity it 

 deserves. 



THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 



TALK WITH A LA GLORIA SETTLER. 



Aguacates Mr. Carleton, a Minnesota 

 and Potatoes, man, returned a few weeks 

 ago to his home in La Gloria, 

 and future conditions of this pioneer col- 

 and future 'conditions of this pioneer col 

 only. He has been there seven years 

 When he first arrived, he planted a seed of 

 an aguacate. It is now 30 feet high; has 

 a spread of 25 feet and for three years he 

 has had a bountiful supply of aguacates 

 from his tree, four months every year. He 

 picks them while green and hard and mel- 

 lows them in the house. He has not had 

 m.uch success with Irish potatoes, the soil 

 does not seem quite right for them. They 

 require, said Mr. Carleton, a sandy loam. 

 He has his own ideas on potato growing 

 and has had a long training in Minnesota 

 and thinks he can raise them. He pays four 

 and five cents per pound for them at the 

 store. Those who raise them in other towns 

 easily sell at the prices given all they care 

 to dispose of. Bananas, he 

 Orange and thinks, are not a commercial 

 Grape Fruit proposition in La Gloria. It is 

 Crop Large, easy to raise enough for home 

 use and local demands, but be- 

 cause of droughts a full crop cannot be 

 depended upon. Futher east, he continued, 

 where the rainfall is more uniform and 

 plentiful, bananas will grow well. Smooth 

 Cayenne is the pineapple most preferred 

 and also the Dominicana. Each reaches, a 

 weight of from 6 to 14 pounds. 



There will be a large crop of oranges and 

 grape fruit this season, although the severe 

 drought this year had a bad effect on all 

 the trees. 



The La Gloria saw-mill is 

 Orange Box now getting out an orange 



of Native box that is both stronger and 

 Wood. better looking than anything 

 ever imported from the States. 

 It is a panel end box, made 'from Ocuji, 

 a native wood of reddish brown color and 

 very tough. In weight it Avill average well 

 with the imported article, as it can be 

 turned out to scale not more than eleven 

 pounds. 



COLONY OF LA GLORIA. The new steamboat at the wharf at Fort Viaro. 



