The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-08
TRIP TICKETS TO CUBA
RAILRoADs PREPARING TO PUT
 THEM ON SALE.
An oAicial Talks With Enthusiasm of the Beauties and the Com mercial Advantages of
 the Island.

It is probable that by next winter Mont- Nashville. Southern Pacific. Mobile and Ohio and Atlantic Coast Line passenger offices in this city, buy round trip tickets from Montgomery to Havana. with hotel accommodations and side trips around the island included.
 General Passenger Agent Anderson of the Southern Pacific. has just perfected arrangements with the Illinois Central whereby the joint ticket to Cuba will be put on sale. The Houston Post says of the matter:
 ~"col. T. J. Anderson. General Passen- ger Agent of the Southern Pacific, At lantic system. accompanied by General Baggage Agent Monroe. and his private secretary. arrived at Houston headquar- ters yesterday morning from New Or leans where the party arrived on Friday last from Cuba.
 'The General Passenger Agent and his party left Houston about three weeks ago to seompany the big Southern Pacific ex. cursiou to Havana. The visit to Cuba, however. was taken in the interests of several important matters looking toward the betterment of the Southern Pacific steamship service to and from the is- land.
 ''seen by a representative of The Post yesterday. Colonel Anderson was enthu- siastic. All joking aside.' he said, Cuba was the original Garden of Eden and 1t hasn't changed very much since the day it sheltered the first inhabitants Idea fly situated geographically. faultIess in eli matic conditions. Cuba Is the natural win ter resort ot the Western hemisphere You can talk about Florida and you can recount the virtues of California. but when 1t comes to attempting to describe the inviting features of Cuba you will flnS that your vocabulary Is entirely too limited.
 Havana is the c1eanest, and at tho same time the quietest and most orderly city in the world. Public utilities of all descriptions are regulated in such a way that there can be no question as to whether or not they are utilities. Tine streets are made the subject of the clos est attention. Disorderly characters are never seen, In fact. Havana is an ideal city in every respect
 While In Cuba Colonel Anderson was a very busy man and mace numerous transactions for the future good of the lines ho represents.
 "In the future Southern Pacific land and immigration agents will be able to boom Cuba just as they have been advertising
 
 tributary to the Southern Pacific lines in the States.
 Colonel Anderson announced that he had secured options on S0o.00O acres of the choicest lands on the island. This land will be placed in the hands of the land immigration agents of the company i'm mediately.
 While in Cuba Colonel Anderson ap- pointed the first Southern Pacific land and immigration agent in Cuba. MT. George Rsno, who was a scout in the Cuban army during the late Spanish war, and who for that reason Is familiar with every foot of ground on the island. was accorded the first honor.
 "In discussing American colonization of Cuba. Colonel Anderson said: During the late war Cuba was devastated of it's crops and its population. The population decreased a quarter of million as a result of the war. The people who sur vived and who are now enjoying free dom on the island have never regained courage and confidence to an extent sui ficicnt 10 resume the cultivation of the land on as large a scale as formerly. This condition has not been at all unfavorabie to American enterprise and large pei cent. of the necessities of life consumed by the inhabitants of the island come from the United States
 "In the meantime, during this period or faltering confidence. the fertile lands of the island have regained their lost life and are now blooming with glorious vege- tation. The inhabitants in most cases however, have not taken up their aban- doned occupations. and vast stretches of land lie practically useless. This land can be purchased at the extremely low prices of from s5 to s25 per acre. When improved and under cultivation similar land can not be had for less than five times as much.
 "The finest grazing lands I ever saw are those of Cuba. Some of the few en- terprising ranchmen buy cattle in Texas weighing about 400 pounds. turn them to feed in the fine pastures of the island and in a few months sell them weighing go to $50 pounds
 "This is the situation on the island. In the great Northwest there are hundreds of ranchmen who are looking for new pastures The land and immigration agents of the Southern Pacific offer to place them in Texas, but they are hardly pleased with land values, which have been on the jump during the last few years as a result of numerous pursuits for which Texas has been found to pre- sent an admirable field. In Cuba the sit- uation is the reverse. Vast tracts of land are uncultivated. values at the present time are low, and the lands present the