. The Street railway journal . ction in PortoRico there has been more domestic manufacture. For-merly Porto Rican tobacco was largely shipped to Cuba February 22, 1908.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 275 and thence exported as Cuban tobacco of the well knownVeulta Abajo brand. Now this has ceased and nearly90 per cent of the tobacco grown in Porto Rico is used bynative tobacco manufacturies, most of which are locatedin the San Juan district. There are three large and mod-ern cigar factories in San Juan. Cheap labor, low rentsand freedom from duty into the United States account forthis development of
. The Street railway journal . ction in PortoRico there has been more domestic manufacture. For-merly Porto Rican tobacco was largely shipped to Cuba February 22, 1908.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 275 and thence exported as Cuban tobacco of the well knownVeulta Abajo brand. Now this has ceased and nearly90 per cent of the tobacco grown in Porto Rico is used bynative tobacco manufacturies, most of which are locatedin the San Juan district. There are three large and mod-ern cigar factories in San Juan. Cheap labor, low rentsand freedom from duty into the United States account forthis development of domestic tobacco manufacture. Theproduct is largely used locally. Still the value of the .\t the same time two new subsidiaries, the Comerio WaterPower Company and the Caguas Tramway Company, wereformed. The two established companies have for some time sup-plied all the railway, light, heat and power facilities in SanJuan and vicinity, each operating a steam driven present undertaking of the Porto Rico Railways Com-.
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