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CUBAN IRON ORE SHIPMENTS 



I'ulian ore sliipnicnts were- niailc in I'.iM) 

 liy three cuiiipanies, namely, the Jurayua 

 Iron Company, the Spanish-. \merican Iron 

 Company and the Ponnpo .Manganese Com- 

 liany. The Juragua Company is controlled 

 hy the Bethlehem Steel Company, which 

 uses in its hlast furnaces at South Bethle- 

 hem, Pa., virtually all the ore shipped an- 

 nually h}- the Juragua Company. The Span- 

 ish-.-\merican Company is controlled hy 

 the Pennsylvania Steel Company, and the 

 ore shipped to the United States annually 

 is largely consumed hy the Pennsylvania 

 Steel Company at its blast furnaces at 

 Steelton and Lebanon, Pa., and by the 

 Maryland Steel Company at its blast fur- 

 naces at Sparrow Point, ^Md. The Ponupo 

 Company sells its ore in the general mar- 

 ket. It made its first iron ore shipments 

 in 1909, the total amounting in that year to 

 about 54,000 tons. The individual ship- 

 ments by the three companies in 1910 have 

 not yet been made public. — Pittsburg {Pa.) 

 Dispatch. 



HORSE-RACING PROSPECTS 



A race-track will be built in Cuba during 

 the coming" season, with Curley Brown and 

 his confreres as the promoters. The con- 

 cession that this party has obtained extends 

 over a period of many years, and it is an- 

 nounced that they will give a race mect- 

 ]!ig in Ha\'ana of at least six davs' dura- 



tion next winter. Hut in \iew of the fact 

 that the legal tenure of racing with the 

 betting adjunct ceases in b'lorida May 1, 

 1911, it would seem doubtful if sufficient 

 horses could be secured to make such a 

 meeting a prolitable investment. 



Racing in Cuba is by no means a new 

 venture. It has been repeatedly tried, but 

 always with the same ending. The rich 

 men who stand sponsors for the sport have 

 steadfastly refused to ship that far and the 

 poor horsemen have not the means. — 

 Scrantoniaii, Scran ton. Pa. 



RURAL GUARDS KILLED 



Rafael Morales, correspondent of the Ha- 

 vana Daily Cuba, and Clemente Carrero, 

 both conservatives, fought a group of rural 

 guards April ISth at Yaguajay, Santa Ckira 

 Province, and Lieutenant Rumbau and Cor- 

 poral ^lontegudo were killed. 



Lieutenant Rumbau shot and killed Cap- 

 tain Lavastida two years ago while being 

 conducted under arrest and having tried to 

 escape. The Lavastida shooting has always 

 been most severely condemned by the con- 

 servatives. — Xezv York Herald. 



Following the detention of twenty-one 

 Haitians at Janco, Oriente Province, re- 

 cently charged with being smuggled into 

 Cuba, the government will round up all 

 subjects of Haiti in the pro\'iiice and ship 

 them liack to their natixe countr\-. 



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