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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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of the island. Thereis a large amount of fine quality longleaf yellow pine close by, and a largeacreage has been cleared, ploughedand planted to citrus fruits. The Provis-ional Government seems determined to com-plete some very important pul)lic improve-ments in the island, and orders have beengiven for much-needed roads, deepening ofharbors, etc. ISLE OF PINES IMPROVEMENTS. Besides the building and repairing ofmany roads and bridges, some importantdredging work will be done. The sandbars at the entrance to Jucaro and NuevaGerona will be taken away and the samework will be done along the west coast.Gov. Magoon lias recommended the workand it is hoped the fall will see some im-provements accomplished. An engineer hasbeen officially commissioned to study plansfor these necessary public works, and toadvertise for bids for the building of roads,especially between Jucaro and Santa Fe. A road between Los Indios and NuevaGerona is being petitioned for. The Isle of Pines parrot season opened
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list month, and 1,200 birds were shipped.This is the twenty-fifth season, the aver-age shipments aggregating 5,000. Theyare. as a rule, splendid talkers, and retailin the United States at $3 to $5. UrSINESS OPENING FOR CUBAN WOMEN. The Havana city council will try to pro-tect and aid Cuban women in their endeavorto become self-supporting. Heretofore, aCuban woman thrown on her own resourceswould do needle work for a miserable pit-tance, but now other fields are to be openedto her. Cuban women teach school, areemployed in public offices and find otherprofitable occupations. All clerical offices vacated in future areto be filled by women. A free medical course will be establishedin the Havana University. A public laundry will furnish employmentto many, and il is urged to exempt fromtaxation all industries established by women,if they employ women exclusively. THE CUBA REVIEW And Bulletin. JIdricultural and American Colony notes THE CARAVONICA COTTON TREE. In the July issue The CUBA REVI

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