Identifier: cubarevie13muns (find matches)
Title: The Cuba review
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
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Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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tates will have to enlarge their output in order to supply the demand on the part of the textile and other color-using industries. The importation of German coal-tardyes has practically stopped, and it is believed that the vegetable dyes made from logwood, fustic and divi divi will be used now in increasing quantities, and the prices of these woods will go up. In addition to the timbers above listed there are a number of others which are shipped in small quantities from Cuba to this and other countries. Sometimes more than one kind of wood are exploited and sold under the same trade name. For instance, mahogany denotes a class of woods which come not only from the true kind, but also from cedar, sabicu and ocuje. There are several species unrelated to one another that are exported under the name of ebony;the same can be said of cedar, lancewood, dagame, and lignum vitae. While it is often undesirable to substitute woods not true to name, they are frequently used with equally good results.
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ON THE HILL OF MONSERRATE, NEAR MATANZAS A view of the foundation for telescope observatory which has been erected by the Spanish society of Matanzas on Monserrate hill some months ago. The work was stopped on account of shortage of funds, but it is hoped to finish the work when the necessary funds are subscribed. 14 THE CUBA REVIEW TRIP TO THE IRON MINES OF MAYARI, NEAR FELTON In this part of Cuba the eastern end around Nipe Bay the American influence is to be seen from all sides, and from the time the gasoline car is started at the wharf at Felton, travelling over a railroad that is typically American until the Iron mines of Mayari are reached ones thoughts turn back and wonder how it all happened. It is an interesting tale—this accidental discovery of iron ore away back in the mountains—and sounds like the old stories of western adventure. A party of campers were hunting in the hills on horseback; one member of the party had a knowledge of mining engineering and the red soil to be see

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