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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



importaron 139,500 toneladas. La c'otizacion actual del azucar de reniolacha, 

 analisis 88, es los. o^^d., equivalente a 4.12 cents la libra de centrifuga puesta en 

 el muelle aqui. 



El consunio diel azucar refinado acusa un aumento y continuara siendo mayor 

 durante toda la zafra, a causa de no haber sobrante en almacen ningun azucar* 

 granulado de remolacha- del pais, y muy poco de la nueva zafra quedara para su 

 consume en el ano que entra, en comparacion con lo quedado el afio pasado. 



Los indicios son que la canipaiia que ahora comienza sera prodiga en buenos 

 y satisfactorios resultados para todos los interesados en el comercio azucarero. 



Nueva York, Dicienibre 9 de 1908. 



BUSINESS MEN OF CUBA. 

 Dr. Rafael Fernandez de Castro. 



Dr. Rafael Fernandez de Castro. 



In colonial times, he was one of the au- 

 tonomist leaders, when the autonomic 

 regime was established Civil Governor of 

 the Province of Havana, and in the sad 

 days of the siege, when hunger was de- 

 stroying the population and a multitude of 

 "reconcentrados" walked through the streets 

 of the city. Dr. Fernandez de Castro 

 worked heroically to alleviate the wide- 

 spread suffering. 



Dr. Fernandez de Castro is the owner 

 of the Loteria sugar estate, in Jaruco. 



Tirso Mesa, a multi-millionaire and a 

 member of the London Board of Direc- 

 tors of the LTnited Railways of Havana, 

 was shot and killed Nov. 29 on his es- 

 tate near Aguado de Pasajeros, Matan- 

 •^as Province, by Ramon F. Victorio, a 

 local merchant. 



Mesa was a prominent sugar planter, 

 and the owner of much real estate in 

 HaA-ana. 



According to the Havana Post of Dec. 

 3, no less than a dozen Hawaiian sugar 

 V'lanters have been in Cuba in the last 

 few days, visiting different parts of t'l ' 

 island in search of suitable sugar lands. 

 They made the trip through Oriente 

 Province, visiting the Guantanamo Val- 

 ley. 



CENTRIFUGAL SUGAR 96° TEST. 



I'rices at New York for November. Solid line, 



1908. Broken line, 1907. 



Sugar Company Increases Capital. 



The Trinidad Sugar Company amended 

 its certificate of incorporation, increasing 

 its capital stock from $600,000 to $1,000,000. 

 The assenting stockholders included the 

 executors of the estate of Henry O. Have- 

 meyer, Horace Havemeyer, Edward J. 

 Francke, Edwin Atkin and John Mayer. 



Free Sugar Feared. 



Any action of the United States Con- 

 gress looking to the placing of three 

 hundred thousand tons of Filipino sugar 

 on the free list would be regarded with 

 grave apprehension by Cubans identified 

 with the sugar industry. The Lucha ad- 

 jures Cuban politicians to unite with the 

 planters in their efforts to obtain con- 

 cessions. 



New Cuba Crop Harvesting Begun. 



A special cable from Havana, Cuba, to 

 Willett & Gray, December 3, states that 

 "One Central is grinding, the Reglita, lo- 

 cated in the Province of Matanzas." 



Last season grinding commenced on 

 December 13, 1907, and in 1906 on No- 

 vember 20. 



Cuba's Sugar Production. 



In five years the sugar production of 

 the Island has increased by 440,437 tons. 



The present temperature favors the 

 young sugarcane and a good crop is ex- 

 pected. The next cutting will be wholly 

 of new sugarcane, the old having all been 

 utilized last season, contrary to custom. 



