Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview07muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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24 THE CUBA REVIEW. ROAD BUILDING IN CUBA.
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Road-Making on the South Line of Los Pinos Calzada, Santa M Courtesy of the Publicity League of Cuba. Road Building in Cuba. One of the greatest accomplishments of the regime of the provisional governor, Charles E. Magoon, representing the United States, w^as the opening up of the island from end to end, and laterally with excel- lent macadamized roads built on the most approved modern principles. Some of these roads follow the course of old ones that had been graded in a desultory way by preced- ing Spanish and Cuban administrations; but Mclrvin Finca, Guanabacoa, Havana Province, aria del Rosario. for the most part they replace cart-cut tracks through the thickets that were barely passable in dry weather and entirely useless during the long rainy season. They bring easy communication to the fertile acres of the entire country, much of which has been hitherto completely isolated. They open up the arteries of trade to sections that for hundreds of years have stagnated for a lack of ability to get their produce to market. The roads were graded in such a way that nowhere was the incline more than 6 iiiP^RBIP!;BP^'IPBR^li5^ ^p'T!st^*j5f'Nlaii^('^i * '-itj • Road P.uilding in Pinar del Rio—View of New Road from Los Mogotes.

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