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Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview14muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931. (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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THE CUBA REVIEW
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Road fronn Artemisa to the Cemetery under construction—-Pinar del Rio Province. the road that communicates with Havana, and to the East, from Encrucijada, that which goes to Contreras and from there to Cardenas, a city of much importance on the North coast. From this latter there is a forked road going to Camarioca and Varadero respectively. These high- ways are continuous and place the towns through which they pass in communication. The rest of the highways are disseminated throughout the province, going out from various towns of more or less importance, incomplete as regards the end they seek, and therefore useless as regards the benefits which could or should be obtained. The same can be said of Santa Clara, whose capital connected with the port of Caibarien by highway, is isolated from the rest of the Republic by this means of communication, because although the road which will connect it with the important town of Sagua la Grande has been projected and partly executed, there are still to be finished about 19 kilometers, already planned and approved. With the South there is no communication, as Cienfuegos, one of the most important commercial towns of the Republic, although connected with Rodas and Manicaragua, this latter terminating completely at Cumanayagua, has not one highway con- necting it with the Capital, notwithstanding the tobacco region of such importance which would be developed by one road, due to the low rate of transportation compared with the railroads on which they now depend. The rest of the province is in the same condition as Matanzas; small isolated roads which do not render the service they should. The Province of Camaguey, second in area in the Republic, is unprovided with means of highway communication, as those constructed, whose total amounts to 71 kilometers, are like those in the two previous provinces, distributed in remote districts, and filling the require- ments of the places through which they cross, but without obtaining the benefit they should if the Province had a network of highways, communicating with important points, necessary for the development of same. The same thing is the case with Oriente, the eastern province of the Republic, the greatest in area, of wonderful fertility and vegetation. The capital, Santiago, is connected a little further

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