THE CUirX REVIEW And Bulletin, 



uMAJA COI.OXY, Ixiokiiij; suiilh fnnii tli.' Sl,iti..ii 



llii> Ciiliii Kiiili'iiad. 



NOTES FROM OMAJA COLONY. 



Among tlie late arrivals are Mr. and 

 Mrs. Williams and daughter Majorie, Miss 

 Williams. Mrs. N. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. 

 Smidi and family, Mr. and Mrs. Mahan and 

 family, Mrs. Graves, Miss Partridge, ^liss 

 Light, Miss Snell, Miss Cranston, Mr. 

 Stewart, Mr. Gordon and Mr. Gardiner. 



Several new houses are being built. Mr. 

 Pierson's, Mr. IMahan's, Mr. Yoder's, Mr. 

 Arter's and Mr. Young's are practically fin- 

 ished. Mr. Smidt, Mrs. Graves and Mr. 

 Blosser's are under way. 



Mr. Keck has just harvested a fine crop 

 of Virginia peanuts. From four rows thirty 

 feet long he gathered three bushel of nuts. 



The Buena Vista Fruit Company have, 

 smce January i, 1907, prepared and planted 

 Id orange trees and corn one hundred acres. 

 One hundred and five acres are ready f'lr 



farther pianling. They will conmience 

 clearing one hundred and twenty-five acres 

 more this week. 



Many fine mnsk melons and tomatoes 

 have been raised here this summer. The 

 tomatoes brought $2 a five-gallon can in 

 Camaguey. Mr. Ben realized $30 from less 

 than one-eight acre of tomatoes. 



Mr. Pierson has a nursery which he is 

 rapidly gettin"^ into shape on a portion 

 of his 160 acres. In Mr. Kreider's gar- 

 den alfalfa was growing vigorously, 

 despite the statement often made that 

 alfalfa will not grow in Cuba. He has 

 eggnlants and other vegetables all the 

 year round. Ira P. Eby makes fine but- 

 ter. His methods will be described in 

 another issue. American money rules in 

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LhroUiuu^i' at Omaja. used also on Sunday for relisiou.s servii' 

 is i:uite a colony settled here. 



I>i(.turo sliu\v.s that there 



