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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubarevie06muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
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18 THE CUBA REVIEW.
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Dredging the Zanji, the channel between Sabinal and Marinavo bays. Scene of this important work, long promised, but now begun. (From the Reconnaissance map of the U. S. War Depart- ment, corrected to October, 1906.) Improvement Work Begun. The tug Cardenas, in the service of the Department of Public Works, left Ha- vana April 28, having in tow a dredge and a water barge for Nuevitas to dredge the canal connecting the Bay of Martinavo, an arm of Nuevitas bay, with the bay of Sabinal. This will open up a passage for fairly large sized boats in the inshore side of Sabinal Island. The work will be extended westward through the shoals which prevail in the waters landlocked by Guajaba Island, and will be carried up to the Guanaja land- ing. This colony has frequently asked for the dredging now to be done, as it had no connection with the outside world by rail, while its water route was of little value, it only permitting the shal- lowest draft boats passing through the passage behind the islands. When the wind was not favorable the water would all be driven out of the shallow cut, and passage made impossible.—La Lu- cha. On May 23 the steam dredge started to work opening up the Zanji so that steamers can go through. When com- pleted a channel 150 feet wide and nine feet deep will be opened through the bays protected by the long strings of reefs and keys that extend from Nue- vitas to Cardenas, so as to open up to agriculture and commerce the fertile lands of Cabaguey, Santa Clara and Ma- tanzas, bordering these bays. Permit to Build Piers. By decree of the Provisional Govern- or on June 16 the Jaragua Iron Company of Santiago de Cuba have been allowed permission to construct a pier and track at Ensenada de la Cruz near the port of Santiago de Cuba, Oriente. The Governor on the same day also granted Dr. Manuel de J. Manduley, as attorney for Sir William Van Home, authorization for the construction of a pier and wharf at Punta Piedra, Bay of Nipe. Further construction work. Plans for the construction of various bridges and railroad crossings of the Spanish American Iron Coinpany rail- road to San Luis with a miner's rail- road from Mayari to Cayo Cojimar in the Bay of Nipe, Santiago de Cuba, were approved on June 10 by the rail- road commission.

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