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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview07muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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12 THE CUBA REVIEW.
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Havana's Water Works.—La Taza de V'ento, V'ento Springs, on the bank of the Almendares river. These springs yield 45,000,000 gallons a day, although all Havana at present uses is about 32,000,000. Surface water is carefully kept out of the Taza, with the result that the supply of water is free from organic matter. The water is very hard with lime and magnesia, but this only serves to make it safer against organic impurities and disease germs. El Deposito de Aguas de la Habana.—El Canal de Vento. Surtidero de Vento en la ribera del rio Almendares. Este surtidero rinde 45,000,000 de galones de agua al dia, aunque al presente la ciudad de la Habana solo consume unos 32,000,000. El agua superficial esta cuidado samente resguardada en la Taza 6 canal, dando por resultado que el abasto de agua esta exento de contaminarse con materias organicas. Al agua contiene gran cantidad de calcio y magnesia, pero esto solo sirve para resguardarla contra las impurezas organicas y los germenes morbosos. Havana, which lost the con- Havana trol of the Vento Water Water Works, has requested the Works. State Government to return the works to the control of the municipality. The aqueduct is at present under the ad- ministration of the Department of Public Works. In reply Secretary Chalors said the peti- tion could not be complied with until mili- tary order 163 of 1902 was annulled. It appears that the city of Havana does not derive any water rents at present from property owners, the water fees going to the Banco Espanol de la Isla de Cuba to satisfy the bonds issued when the aqueduct was built. The Secretary of Public Works is now engaged in studying a way to improve the supply of water in quantity and pres- sure for Havana. Works have been started at Vento aqueduct, and new and more powerful engines h ve been de- signed to pump six million gallons in twenty-four hours. Improvements now under way are estimated to be good for the coming twenty years. The first working session Tax on of the House of Represen- Sugar. tatives, November 3, was devoted to reading a bill providing for an export tax on sugar of $1 per bag of 325 pounds, when produced by wage labor, and 50 cents per bag when produced by tenant sharers. The bill is presumably aimed at the American companies who employ laborers at wages instead of raising sugar on shares. The measure was referred to a committee by a vote of 37 to 22, the Speaker saying that its reference was merely a courtesy to the members. The general opinion is that the bill is absurd and impossible. 4

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