. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 21 ALL AROUND CUBA NEW CUBAN POSTAGE STAMPS It is now thought that the issue of new Ciiban postage stamps will not be made until February 24th, 1917. This date is a national holiday commemorating the "Grito de ;. In this connection, there has just been issued a new set of telegraph stamps all of the same design, that is "Ajax Defying the ; The stamps come in different colors and denominations and are used on telegrams to prepay them. TOBACCO The explanation for the forthcoming an- nouncement of advance in the price of all C
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 21 ALL AROUND CUBA NEW CUBAN POSTAGE STAMPS It is now thought that the issue of new Ciiban postage stamps will not be made until February 24th, 1917. This date is a national holiday commemorating the "Grito de ;. In this connection, there has just been issued a new set of telegraph stamps all of the same design, that is "Ajax Defying the ; The stamps come in different colors and denominations and are used on telegrams to prepay them. TOBACCO The explanation for the forthcoming an- nouncement of advance in the price of all Cuban cigars and tobacco by a recent article in "Tobacco Leaf" gives the following reasons: Increased action ties in other industries has made labor in the tobacco-growing districts scarce, and the price of labor unprecedently high. The wooden cases in which domestic tobacco is packed, the cheesecloth under which shadegrown tobacco is grown, fertilizers necessary to the soil, implements used in culti- vation, etc., etc., have all advanced, and particularly in Cuba where the great boom in the sugar industry has diverted agricultur- ists to that industry and created a shortage of good Havana leaf. The result is that all lands of leaf tobacco used for cigar purposes in the United States have gone skyward. PATENT GRANTED A patent has been granted to Sr. Menalio Marin covering a process of manufacturing paper from various vegetable fibers, princi- pally henequen and sugar cane. AUTOMOBILE TEST Near Santiago, Cuba, is the celebrated Boniato road, which winds up the side of a mountain 2,000 feet high and is considered the severest test in Cuba for an automol>ile. Recently a car made the ascent in six minutes, the car being driven on the second gear. COTTON GROWING IN CUBA In the rocky sections of Pinar del Rio Province in that incomparable land oi tobacco, cotton grows beautifully as the traveler may witness by taking a trip to the southern section of the province where he
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