. The Cuba review. 32 THE CUBA REVIEW PLANTATION CARS OF ALL KINDS ALSO THE PARTS FOR SAME. No. 902-L (Palabra de clave ZPUGJ) El grabado ensena uno de nuestros carros de acero para cana, con piso, extremos y pared de madera. Fabricamos un gran numero de carros para cana para uso en Cuba, Puerto-Rico, America Central y Mexico, one tienen jaulas de acero o de madera y construidas para los distintos tipos de carga y descarga de la cana. AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO., NEW YORK, E. U. A. Direccion telegrafica: NALLIM, New York. Produccion annual de mas de 100,000 carros. Representante para Cuba:
. The Cuba review. 32 THE CUBA REVIEW PLANTATION CARS OF ALL KINDS ALSO THE PARTS FOR SAME. No. 902-L (Palabra de clave ZPUGJ) El grabado ensena uno de nuestros carros de acero para cana, con piso, extremos y pared de madera. Fabricamos un gran numero de carros para cana para uso en Cuba, Puerto-Rico, America Central y Mexico, one tienen jaulas de acero o de madera y construidas para los distintos tipos de carga y descarga de la cana. AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY CO., NEW YORK, E. U. A. Direccion telegrafica: NALLIM, New York. Produccion annual de mas de 100,000 carros. Representante para Cuba: OSCAR B. CINTAS, Oficios 29-31 Havana. STATUS OF THE COLONO A recent conversation with a leading merchant of the flourishing commercial City of Cien- fuegos, elicited some interesting information regarding a little known class of hard workers in Cuba, the colono who leases much land from the owners of sugar lands, tills it, manj' times financially assisted by the company, and afterwards sells his product to the factory. Should he desire to extend his acreage, and having some money of his own, he can easily secure all the financial assistance he may require and make such arrangements as may eventu- ally make the leased land his own property. The colono is very fortunately situated and has apparently the better part of the bargain with the central, which is usually for 10 or 15 years. He sells his cane by weight and should there be much rain and little cold weather, the gi-een cane saturated with water is very heavy and he gets his sugar for his cane, although the sugar content of his product may be very small. Should the colono own his own land and be surrounded by sugar mills, as in Havana, Matanzas and Santa Clara provinces, he is again in a fortunate situation as in that case he does not make a contract with any mill for more than a year, and furthermore he visits each mill in their turn and offers for his cane, long before it is harvested. One mill may offer 6 reale
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