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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



SUGAR MISCELLANY. 



Sugar Consumption in the United States. 



Sugar statistics of the Department of 

 Commerce and Labor show a total con- 

 sumption in the United States of from 

 6,000,000,000 to 7,000,000,000 pounds a 

 year, the total for the latest year, 1907, 

 being 7,089,667,975 pounds. Calculating 

 this enormous total at the average re- 

 tail price of S% cents per pound, we get 

 a total of $372,000,000 as its cost to the 

 consumer, or more than $1,000,000 for 

 each of the 365 days of the year. Di- 

 viding this total of 7,089,667.975 pounds 

 by the 1907 figures of population, we 

 get an average consumption for 1907 of 

 82 3/5 pounds per capita, which is more 

 than one-half of the average per capita 

 weight of the people of the country, 

 including men, women and children in 

 tliis calculation. 



3,236,000,000 pounds came from Cuba, 

 against 2,820,000,000 pounds in the 

 former high record 3'ear 1904. 



Need not Fear Philippine Sugar. 



Cuban sugar interests are somewhat 

 alarmed by the proposal to allow 300,- 

 000 tons of Philippine sugar to enter 

 the United States annually free uf duty, 

 and are actively organizing a campaign 

 to get concessions from the American 

 Congress. They want a renewal of the 

 reciprocity treaty and also a reduction 

 in the duty on Cuban sugar of fifty 

 cents per hundredweight. 



The tobacco interests are also inter- 

 ested in the proposal that a certain quan- 

 tity of Philippine tobacco shall be ad- 

 mitted duty free into the United States, 

 and they will work with the sugar inter- 

 ests in an attempt to get tariff conce;.- 

 sions. 



If Cuba could grow just a little opti- 

 mistic, her sugar and tobacco handlers 

 would see that there is a market, and 

 a profitable one, for her products just 

 the same in the Ainerican markets as 

 before the change was made, or will be 

 made, regarding the Philippine material. 

 The consumption of both products is 

 very large in this country, and our ex- 

 ports are correspondingly great, so that 

 Cuba, with its cheap transportation serv- 

 ice and close contiguitj'^ to the Amer- 

 ican markets, can readily dispose of its 

 output, even if the United States doesn't 

 step in and help things out with a neces- 

 sary reduction in the Cuban duties, to 

 make competition more even. — Brooklyn 

 (N. Y.) Times^ 



Industrial Notes. 



Hammond Iron Works, Warren, Pa., U. 

 S. A., have opened an office in Mexico City, 

 Mexico, located at Cinco de Mayo No. 32, 

 Room 222, Francis E. Pratt, in charge. 



C. M. Warner in the Cuba. Co. 



President C. M. Warner of the Warner 

 Sugar Refining Company has been elected 

 a director and a member of the executive 

 committee of the Cuba Company. The fact 

 that the latter concern, which has an au- 

 thorized capital stock of $8,000,000, is a 

 large grower of sugar on the Island of 

 Cuba led to reports in lower Wall Street 

 circles, says the New York Journal of 

 Commerce, that the Warner Sugar Re- 

 fining Company have made arrange- 

 ments with the Cuba Company for its 

 supply of new sugar. This was denied 

 by Mr. W'arner. 



LA DISCUSSION. 



Cuba — "Anja? V no padre yo lograr lo que 

 logro una China?" 



Cuba — "Well I And can I not get what they 

 give to China?" 



Will Furnish Workmen. 



The Secretary of Agriculture, Indus- 

 try and Commerce of Cuba has issued 

 a circular to the sugar-mill owners and 

 planters and the colonos, requesting 

 that they communicate to him the loca- 

 tion of their places, the scale of wages 

 paid by them, and the number of work- 

 men required, and the department will, 

 without charge, furnish the necessary 

 workmen. 



K. Saiki, of Japan, is in Cuba by di- 

 rection of his government to study the 

 cultivation of cane in Cuba, and brings 

 letter to the Cuuan officials from the 

 U. S. government at Washington. 



The year 1908 started with centrifugal 

 sugar, 96 test, quoted at 3.85, and 

 closed at 3.67 cents. The highest price 

 for the year was 4.49 cents on April 29, 

 and lowest on Feb. 20 at 3.67 cents. 



