THE CUBA R E \' 1 E W 



RAILROAD AND COMMERCIAL NEWS 



NEW CIENFUEGOS TROLLEY LINE — RAILROAD FROM SAGUA TO CARDENAS 

 UNDER CONSTRUCTION — BANK REMOVAL 



Xew Local Electric Lines 



A presidential decree authorizes a con- 

 tract between the Cuban government and 

 the Cienfuegos, Pahnira and Cruces Rail- 

 way and Power Co., under which the com- 

 pany will undertake to build a new track, 

 starting from the small village of Caonao, 

 which is practically a suburb of Cienfuegos, 

 and extending to ]\Ianicaragua, a rich to- 

 bacco district. 



The company also binds itself to build 

 another railway from Caonao to Cruces. 



The government, on the other hand, will 

 grant the company the subsidy authorized 

 by the law of Julv 5, 1906. 



For a new railroad between Sagua and 

 Cardenas, the government has given the 

 Cuba Company a subsidy of $5,000 per kilo- 

 meter for 65 kilometers. Work will begin 

 this month. The company is ready to 

 complete the line as soon as a further 

 subsidy is granted. 



The Cuban Central Railways Construc- 

 tion Co., Ltd., were the lowest bidders for 

 the construction of a branch line between 

 Caguaguas and Ranchez Veloz and were 

 awarded the contract, ^^'ork has already 

 begun. 



A Grand Terminal Station 



The Snare & Triest Co., of New York. 

 X. Y., have secured the contract, amount- 

 ing in total to $4,000,000 for the Havana 

 Terminal Railroad Co. for the development 

 of the arsenal propertj', recently acquired 

 from the Cuban government, on which is 

 to be built a great edifice to be used as a 

 combined passenger and freight terminal. 

 The work involved in this contract is the 

 construction of a passenger station and 

 train shed, with elevated railroad connec- 

 tion, under the designs of Kenneth M. 

 Murchison, architect : the building of 

 freight warehouses, piers on the Bay of 

 Havana, on w'hich the arsenal has a front- 

 age of 1,500 feet; the building of three 

 steel and concrete piers on property of the 

 government and for the use of the same, 

 and a crematory of 500 tons per day ca- 

 pacity to dispose of the city garbage. Work 

 will begin at once and occupj^ two years 

 to complete. 



The passenger station will be used bj- 

 the United Railways of Havana, the Ha- 

 vana Central Railroad and the Marianao 

 Railwav. 



The Royal Bank of Canada has removed 

 its branch bank from Mayari to Antilla in 

 the same province and has opened a com- 

 modious office in the new Hotel Antilla. 



New Cuba Railroad bridges in Cuba. They cross the Bayamo River. 



