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THE CUBA R E V I E W 



Tobacco Importations from Cuba 



Th>' tobacco imports of the United States from Cu1)a during the month of January 

 compare as follows : 



1910 1911 



Quantity Value Quantity Value 



Leaf for cigar wrappers 2,270 lbs. $2,942 1,407 lbs. $2,743 



All other leaf 2,120,.399 " 1,192,614 2,32.5,596 " 1,414,319 



Cigars, cigarettes, etc 32,780 " 19.5,871 47,203 " 274,485 



— Figures of the United States Treasury Department. 



The late Gustavo Bock, identified for 

 many years with the tobacco interests in 

 Havana, left an estate in England valued at 

 j£l4,854, according to the London- Daily 

 Chronicle, as shown in the will filed of his 

 estate. 



The first damage suit filed against the 

 McGiveny and Rokeby Company, the spver 

 contractors in Havana, was that of Aliguel 

 Ulloa to recover damages caused to the 

 Grand Continental Hotel. Ten thousand 

 dollars Spanish gold is asked for the mate- 

 rial damage done to the building, and 

 $10,500 is demanded for the loss of busi- 

 ness. 



A ;Matanzas corporation, now extensively 

 engaged in the cultivation of henequen, 

 wants to obtain a ten-year concession for 

 the company, in order to engage in the 

 manufactuer of sugar bags from prime ma- 

 terial obtained in this country. 



Cuba imports jute bags valued at several 

 millions each year to export her sugar, and 

 it has been maintained that the industry 

 could be well developed in this country. _ 



Secretary of Agriculture jNIartinez Ortiz 

 took the application for submission to the 

 president. 



According to information given the Ha- 

 vana Post, the Canada mountains at Los 

 Indios on the Isle of Pines contain vast 

 deposits of graphite, and New York capital- 

 ists are said to be behind the movement to 

 exploit the mineral. 



The erection of a $200,000 refining plant 

 is being considered, and this may be in 

 operation within six months, says the Post. 



The mine is about four and a half miles 

 from Los Indios and within easy reach of 

 the new dock building on Sigunea Bay. 



The company believes it has a deposit of 

 over a milHon tons. 



Captain James A. Ryan, military aide to 

 Governor Magoon in the last provisional 

 government in Cuba, was married last 

 month to JNIiss ]\Iarv Farleton, Sheridan, 

 111. 



Captain Ryan came to Cuba with the 

 Fifteenth United States Cavalry and made 

 manv friends in Havana. 



Aviator James Ward gave an exhibition 

 in Guantanamo on JNIarch 5th. 



NEWS OF THE RAILROADS 



The newspapers of the city of Matanzas 

 are discussing a project for the construction 

 of an electric railway that will unite the 

 .capital with another projected line starting 

 from Casa Blanca, Havana Province, 

 thence to Santa Cruz del Norte and to Ca- 

 nasi and finally to Matanzas. Details of the 

 enterprise are lacking. 



They also comment favorabh' on another 

 railway project presented by a company 

 called the Matanzas to Central Cuba Rail- 

 road. The line, it is said, will begin at the 

 Dubrok wharves and wdll run through 100 

 kilometers of a strictly sugar district. 



The Puerto Principe-Nuevitas Railroad 

 is now planning to extend its lines from 

 Kilometer 71 to the Bufadero inlet in the 

 peninsula of Pastillo, near Xuevitas. The 

 length of the new extension is 3,730 meters. 



The new line of ferryboats from Luz 

 wharf to Casa Blanca, established by the 

 Havana Central Railroad Company, was 

 inaugurated ]\Iarch 5th with appropriate 

 ceremonies. 



In connection with the ferry there will be 

 established an automobile line between 

 Casa Blanca and Cojimar, this line to make 

 hourly trips. 



Work is steadily progressing on the rail- 

 road branch of the Cuban Central, which 

 will unite Cifuentes and La Esperanza in 

 Santa Clara Province, the route taking in 

 the town of San Diego del Valle. 



A fire in Camaguey Province on March 

 10th, beginning at Najasa, laid waste over 

 500 caballerias of grazing land and des- 

 troyed considerable property. 



Professor F. S. Earle, former director of 

 the Santiago de las Vegas experimental sta- 

 tion, and Professor Carlos de la Torre are 

 now being considered by the secretary of 

 agriculture, Martinez Ortiz, to be named on 

 special commission to stud}^ to bud-rot dis- 

 ease in Oriente Province. 



Forest fires were raging in the Canto val- 

 ley in the week of March 18th. There are 

 immense sections of virgin forests in this 

 region. 



