THE CUBA R E \' I E W 



AMERICAN LW'ESTMEXTS L\ CUBA 



U. S. Consul-General James L. Rodgers 

 at Havana sa3S that based upon the best 

 information obtainable the total amount 

 of American capital invested in Cuba ap- 

 proximates $220,000,000. His estimate is 

 as follows : 



Sugar mills and lands $50,000,000 



Other lands and real estate... 15,000,000 



Agricultural investments 10,000,000 



Railroad equities 25.000,000 



Mines and mining enterprises.. 15.000,000 

 Mercantile and manufacturing 



investments ^ 25.000,000 



Shipping 5.000,000 



Banking capital 5.000,000 



Mortgages and credits 20.000,000 



Public utilities 20,000,000 



Total $190,000,000 



He thinks that 830.000,000 ought to be 

 added as representing the share of Amer- 

 icans of the entire indebtedness of the 

 government, including pro\-incial and mu- 



nicipal bonds. This does not include the 

 private wealth of Americans residing in 

 the island. Estimates of American capital 

 invested range between $100,000,000 and 

 $450,000,000. Detailed information of 

 these investments are impossible to secure, 

 but some data regarding American invest- 

 ments in the eastern end of the island are 

 furnished by U. S. Consul Holoday of 

 Santiago de Cuba. The latter estimates 

 American investments in Carnaguey Prov- 

 ince at $25,000,000 and in Oriente SoO.ooo.- 

 000. exclusive of American interests in the 

 Cuba Railroad. The investments in 

 Oriente Pro\"ince he divides as follows : 



Sugar plantations $28,525,000 



Mines and mining enterprises.. 12.250.000 



Land plantations, etc 1.750,000 



Railroads (American-owned).. 4,175,000 



Cattle and other live stock 100.000 



^lercantile establishments 250.000 



Miscellaneous 2.950.000 



Total 50.000.000 



Dumois Xipe Company Plantations 



Translation from the Avisador Comercial. of Havana' 



Saetia. comprising 310 cabal Jerias (10,230 

 acres t at the entrance of Xipe Bay. at the 

 right margin of the great ba}'. forms a 

 peninsula betw-een Xipe and Le^-isa baj-s, 

 but Messrs. Dumois made it into an island, 

 so as to facilitate the loading of bananas, 

 by opening a navigable canal through the 

 Isthmus. 



This plantation is deAOted to the raising 

 of bananas, which are shipped to the United 

 States in quantities of from 700 to SOO.OOO 

 bunches. At the present time the}" are 

 planting sugar cane on this plantation. 



Arroyo Blanco, a plantation also situated 

 between the bays of Xipe and Le\"isa, is 

 composed of 760 caballerias of land (about 

 25,080 acres), and is separated from Saetia 

 bv the above-mentioned canal. 



This plantation is of great value for its 

 fertile virgin soils, and also for the land 

 already cultivated. It has been planted 

 with cane in some parts, and there are 



about 159 caballerias and more that are 

 being cleared to make room for planting 

 more cane. 



In between this plantation and the one 

 above mentioned, besides the bananas and 

 the cane that are being planted, there are 

 125,000 orange trees, already pelding fruit, 

 which they export to the north and also 

 send to this capital. Since the beginning 

 of this year they have sold in Havana 

 6.000,000 oranges. 



El Ramon is a plantation of 200 caba- 

 llerias (about 6.600 acres) of land, situated 

 facing Saetia. on the other side of the 

 entrance to Xipe Bay. It is also devoted 

 to the raising of cane. 



^lessrs. Dumois. who are hard-working 

 Cubans, are now working to establish a 

 large sugar central. It will he named San 

 Ramon, and the cost of the machinen.- wiU 

 not be less than two and a half million 

 dollars. 



CUSTOMS COLLECTION INCRE.A.SING 



Havana's . custom house collections for 

 June compare as follows : 

 1911. $1.1665.094: 

 1910. Sl.410.790: 

 1909 Sl.343.434: 

 190S. $1.370.SS9: 

 1907. Sl.573.055. 



CUB.A. CURES H.AY FE\"ER 



A correspondent of the Havana Post 

 suggests that hay fever sufferers tr\- Cuba. 

 He knows of several persons, residents 

 of Santiago for many years who never 

 have an attack in Cuba, but who are im- 

 mediately afflicted when they go north. 



Deaths from heat are unknown in Cuba. 



