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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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savings accounts are invited by the National Bank of Cuba.The Nova Scotia Bank has a new home.The Royal Bank of Canada has opened two more branches. MILITARY NOTES— A map on page 20 shows the position of the American troops in Cuba. NEW BUILDINGS, AND CONSTRUCTION WORK. Page 11— Two new hotels in Havana, with modern improvements, are almost ready. Anew high school is provlded for. POLITICAL. Pages 12 and 14 — Governor Magoons Cuban election programme. Santa Claras new governor. GovernorNunez trying to form a new party. RAILWAYS— The United Railways important improvements; an extension of the Cuba Easternto Maya; a new railway of the Havana Central, are noted on pages 10 and 11- SPANISH DEPARTMENT— Willett & Grays sugar review is on page 24. The Urner-Barry fruit and vegetable review is on pages 24 and 26. SUGAR— Willett & Grays review will be found on page 22. There is much interestinginformation as to the years production and prices. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin.
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A city, suburb and countxy scene in Cuba. Note the fine roads In all three pictures, which are afeature of most Cuban cities. Macadam highways radiate out In all directions. THE CUBA REVIEW AND BULLETIN ALL ABOUT CUBA Copyright, 1907, by the Munson Steamship Line. Volume V. JANUARY, 1907. Number 2. FIBRES IN CUBA. The Great Possibilities of Henequen—The Poorest Land the Best for This Product—Native Jutes in Plenty—Banana Fibre Exceedingly Valuable. By C. F. BAKER, Chief Botanical Department Cuban Agricultural Experiment Station. Cuba uses many thousands of dollars worth of sacking, cordage, and alliedproducts each year, a large part of which is imported, and all of which might bereadily produced in the Island. This fact places the subject among the very im-portant agricultural problems deserving the attention of planters and manufacturersand of the Cuban Government. Only one fibre is as yet being commercially grown and handled in the Islandand that is henequen. Many hundreds of

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