Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . of tobacco raised in theVuelta Abajo district, which comprises the Province of Pinar del Rioand the western portion of the Province of Havana. The cigar in-dustry is prodigious; its statistics are expressed in millions. TheHenry Clay and Bock Company, the largest tobacco concern in theworld, has an annual output of 85,000,000 cigars and 160,000,000 cigar-ettes. Permits for inspection of its factories are given on applicationat the ma
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . of tobacco raised in theVuelta Abajo district, which comprises the Province of Pinar del Rioand the western portion of the Province of Havana. The cigar in-dustry is prodigious; its statistics are expressed in millions. TheHenry Clay and Bock Company, the largest tobacco concern in theworld, has an annual output of 85,000,000 cigars and 160,000,000 cigar-ettes. Permits for inspection of its factories are given on applicationat the main office. No. 10 Zulueta street. Here may be followed thesuccessive steps of manipulation by which the raw leaf is convertedinto the finished product—the unfolding of the baled leaf and its moist- 100 THE STANDARD GUIDE. cning, stripping from the stem and sorting according to lighter ordarker shades, the actual making of the cigar, and the subsequent sort-ing, labeling, packing and sealing, each several process performed byworkers whose deftness and skill excite admiration. The view fromthe roof of the building is the most commanding outlook in A CUBAN COUNTRY HOME. MATANZAS.
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