. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. A street scene in the American colony at Herradura, Province of Pinar del Rio. The fine, cozy houses would almost make the visitor believe he was in the United States instead of Cuba. Una vista en la via publica de la colonia americana en Herradura, provincia de Pinar del Rio. La bonita y comoda casa que se ve en el grabado, hace pensar al viajero que se encuentra en los Estados Unidos mas bien que en Cuba. Herradura After Four Years. Four years ago, or about June, 1905, Americans began to settle and cultivate the soil at Herradura, in the Province of Pi
. The Cuba review. Cuba -- Periodicals. A street scene in the American colony at Herradura, Province of Pinar del Rio. The fine, cozy houses would almost make the visitor believe he was in the United States instead of Cuba. Una vista en la via publica de la colonia americana en Herradura, provincia de Pinar del Rio. La bonita y comoda casa que se ve en el grabado, hace pensar al viajero que se encuentra en los Estados Unidos mas bien que en Cuba. Herradura After Four Years. Four years ago, or about June, 1905, Americans began to settle and cultivate the soil at Herradura, in the Province of Pinar del Rio—some with sufficient capital, some with very little but their labor to provide for their families. Most of them are living there now, in the best of health and pros- pering financially. Two hundred and nine- ty-six Americans and Canadians have pur- chased land, and every year more come to settle and improve their farins. The present population is between one hundred and fifty and two hundred. The colony has both American and Spanish teachers in their schools, regular church services, their own agricultural and horti- cultural societies, ladies' social clubs, two daily mails, money-order post office, tele- graph, stores, hotel, good streets, modern American style houses, packing house for vegetables on railroad siding, and are now preparing to build a canning" factory and starch mill. During the past four years over twelve hundred acres have been planted to citrus fruit trees, and for the last three years to- matoes, egg-plants, peppers and other vege- tables have been grown in sufficient quanti- ties to ship to the New York market. The soil is a sandy loam, free from rock or stones, and underlaid with a clay sub- soil. Water of excellent quality abounds in springs and creeks, and wells from thirty to sixty feet deep, which furnish water the entire year, are numerous. Some of the American farmers grow tobacco of very fine quality, which is sold at good prices.
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