THE CUBA REVIEW 



23 



ISLE OF PINES MATTERS 



THE LOS INDIOS WHARF 



A request has been tiled with the gov- 

 ernment that the Los Indios Warehouse 

 Company he allowed to unload dutiable 

 cargo in the warehouse owned by it in 

 Siguanea Bay, Isle of Pines. Dr. Parraga, 

 rlie company's counsel, states that his clients 

 are willing to pay the necessarj- custom 

 Jouse inspectors. 



The officers and directors of the Los 

 Indios \\"harf and \\'arehouse Co. are as 

 follows : 



President and treasurer. A. B. Vasquez ; 

 vice-president, H. Hamel : secretary, Carlos 

 E. Parraga. 



The directors are : 



C. M. Johnson, W. B. ^IcDonald. Chas. 

 S. Brown and B. JNIoas. 



The company has built a great dock at 

 Siganea Baj- on the west coast of the Isle 

 of Pines. 



For the purpose of making Los Indios, 

 Isle of Pines, a sub-port of entry, the gov- 

 ernment has ordered the examination of 

 the two pilots who will be employed in 

 the service. 



UPLAND RICE 



An excellent and almost conclusive ex- 

 periment with upland rice has just been 

 completed. At Las Tunas one and one- 

 half acres were planted to the rice the last 

 week in ^lav. The field attained an aver- 

 age height of four and one-half feet and 

 the heads are uniformly full of well de- 

 veloped grain. The crop was gathered in 

 tlie last week of September, but owing to 

 the primitive methods of threshing, no 

 estimate of the vield was obtained. 



S. S. Harvey says in the At'pcal: 

 'T have become fully satisfied within the 

 last few jrears that the Isle of Pines and 

 Cuba have the natural conditions to grow 

 the sweetest, most highh- flavored orange 

 that has yet been grown anywhere : and 

 that matter of sweetest is sure to be a 

 v, inner when properh- advertised. 



■■-And — they will grow on any old root 

 — rough lemon, sour orange, shaddock, 

 grapefruit, etc., etc." 



Xueva Gerona will soon have a tourist 

 hotel. It will be a structure 146 x 129 feet, 

 two stories high, and contain over 75 

 rooms. It will open about January 1st. 



FINE ROAD WORK PROJECTED 



Lon Benito Ortiz, the popular chief 

 executive of the isle, has been in Havana 

 in;- some time in order, it is said, to confer 

 with Governor Ashtrt of Havana Province 

 concerning the appropriation promised 

 some time a.ro and which was to be di- 

 vided as follows : 



Extension of Gerona Santa Ana-San 

 Francisco calzada — $20,000. 



Casas River and Cayo Bonito Bridges — 

 $10,000. 



Miscellaneous improvements — $4,000. 



West Coast residents, in common with 

 the fruit growers of Santa Ana, San 

 Francisco and Cuchillo Alta, take a deep 

 interest in the new calzada and v.ill soon 

 open a road from Los Indios to San 

 Pedro, from where a connection can be 

 made with the San Francisco calzada, re- 

 ducing the distance between Gerona and 

 Los Indios to about 18 miles. The present 

 auto road between Gerona and Los Indios 

 is close to 30 miles long. 



There are three classes of roads in 

 Cuba. There are the national highways, 

 or calzadas, which are under the control 

 of the National Department of Public 

 Works. The calzadas of the' Isle of Pines 

 come under this class. Next are the provin- 

 cial roads, which are under the control of 

 the provincial authorities at Havana, and 

 of which the Isle has none at present. The 

 third class is the municipal roads, which 

 are all others than the above-mentioned, 

 that have been reported to the various 

 common councils of the municipalities and 

 rfficiallv accepted as municipal highwa3^s. 

 Of this last class the streets of Nueva 

 Gerona and Santa Fe are the only roads 

 '-•n the Isle. 



The average temperature of July, the 

 hottest month of the year, was 79 degrees 

 on the Isle of Pines, sav's the Appeal 



^lammoth corn stalks measuring twelve 

 feet in height, some bearing five matured 

 ears of grain, were recently shown as 

 grown on'the island. The varieties were 

 American Dent and Cuban. 



The new bridge over the Nuevas River 

 at ]vIcKinley was formally opened Septem- 

 ber 22d. Thenewr bridge which was most 

 urgently needed represents the culmina- 

 tion of months of hard work on the part of 

 the roads and bridges committee of the 

 AIcKinlev Chamber of Commerce. 



AIcKinley, Santa Barbara and settlements 

 will soon have a daily auto service to and 

 from Gerona. 



Pineapple planting goes on apace in 

 McKinleys, over 14,000 imported plants- 

 having been planted recentlv. 



