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Title: The Cuba review and bulletin
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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ts for theimportation of as many able-bodied work-men as could be secured. He can use atleast four hundred, and took down withhim as many as he could gather, probablyforty or fifty. These men will be paid 80cents to $1.50 per day, American currency.They will have steady work the year round.There are boarding houses and hotels atVita which will be able to accommodate,at a moderate cost, all who come. Mr. Sanchez does not maintain a countrystore where the employees can purchasesuch goods as they require, but permitsanyone who wishes to open a store. Ifthe Greeks, who may come down in suf-ficient numbers, find it convenient to havea store of their own, they are at perfectliberty to do so and the plantation ownerswill give them assistance, financial andotherwise. If these men take their fam-ilies with them, Mr. Sanchez will buildthem a house and will give them sufficientground on which they can raise pineapples,grape fruit, oranges, vegetables, etc., which THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. 17
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Cuban Fruits: The Marana. A peculiarity of this fruit is its bearing the seed or nut on the outside.These nuts have been pronounced by confectioners in New York to be equal in all respects to the bitteralmond, which they strongly resemble in flavor. The fruit itself is of a pleasant flavor, slightly puckery,very rich in juice, held in a rubbery pulp. The skin is light yellow and very thin. they may require either for their own useor for the purpose of selling to others. Ifthey build a house on the land thus giventhem and desire afterwards to leave, theymay dispose of the building to someoneelse. It is their property. Any agricul-tural laborer in the United States whowishes to go to Cuba can make satisfac-tory arrangements with Mr. Sanchez ifhe desires to grow sugar cane on the plan-tation. Mr. Sanchez will lease him asmany caballerias as he requires, help himwith oxen and agricultural implements, andpurchase the cane product and pay him themarket price. While he will not sell landon t

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