. The Cuba review. 24 THE CUBA REVIEW. ISLE OF PINES NOTES. Captain Webster, in charge of the dredging work on the island, has just returned from Los Lidios where he sur- veyed the river from Handles landing to the mouth. It was found that by dredg- ing an excellent harbor can be made at that point with eighteen feet of water across the bar which will admit of the passage of steamers the size of the James J. Campbell. Recent happenings at Los Indies in- clude the' completion of the cottage of S. H. Couch, and of a new hotel by the Canada Land & Fruit Company, to be called the Brown Palace
. The Cuba review. 24 THE CUBA REVIEW. ISLE OF PINES NOTES. Captain Webster, in charge of the dredging work on the island, has just returned from Los Lidios where he sur- veyed the river from Handles landing to the mouth. It was found that by dredg- ing an excellent harbor can be made at that point with eighteen feet of water across the bar which will admit of the passage of steamers the size of the James J. Campbell. Recent happenings at Los Indies in- clude the' completion of the cottage of S. H. Couch, and of a new hotel by the Canada Land & Fruit Company, to be called the Brown Palace Hotel. At East McKinley the American resi- dents are busy building houses, setting out groves and in various ways improv- ing their holdings. At Santa Ana several large tracts of land have been sold within the last few weeks. The recent purchase of the San Fran- cisco tract, south of this place, compris- ing about 10,000 acres of land, by Mr. T. W. Swetland, of Cleveland, O., makes another American holding. It is about the center of the island. Mr. Swetland expects to place it on the market short- ly- The management of the American Hotel at Santa Fe has changed hands. The new manager, D. B. Cleaver, an ex- perienced hotel man, has materially re- duced the rates heretofore charged. The ladies composing the library as- sociation of Nueva Gerona are expecting soon to acquire from the' government a desirable plot of ground within the city upon which they propose to erect a li- brary building. Captain Webster, U. S. A., is at work on the dredging of the mouth of the Jucaro River and already has two hun- dred and fifty -meters dredged. An ex- cellent harbor will be made. The temperature for March, 1908, taken at Santa Fe, ranged between 60 and 90 degrees. The Isle of Pines Appeal and the American Photo Company purpose pub- lishing a souvenir booklet of the island. It will be a 'history of the little island dating back to its first settlement. It will contain heretofore unpublished hi
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