THE CUBA REVIEW 



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THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



PROPOSED SUGAR MILLS 



A new company luis been formed under the 

 name of "Cabonico Su^ar Co." for the con- 

 struction of a sugar mill in the Oriente 

 Province, near Cabonico Bay. 



It is said that Mr. Hawley will be the 

 President of the new enterprise which, it is 

 understood, will be backed by the Cuban- 

 American Sugar Co. 



A new sugar mill will be constructed in the 

 Oriente Province at about one kilometer 

 from the town of Cueto. This town is 

 located on the Cuba RR. Co. line, at about 

 30 kilometers S. W. of Antilla. The President 

 of the new Company will be Mr. Rafael 

 Sanchez AbaUi, who is the owner of Central 

 Santa Lucia. 



Another sugar mill will be constructed at 

 CeboUas, near Sagua de Tanamo, Oriente 

 Province. The originator of the new enter- 

 prise is Mr. Henry de Ford of Boston, who, 

 it is said, will use for his new mill the ma- 

 chinerj- from a Louisiana mill which he owns. 



ENCOURAGING CANE GROWING 



For some years past the American colonists 

 that settled directly after the Spanish war on 

 the Northwest coast of Cuba, forming the 

 new settlement of La Gloria out toward 

 Nuevitas, have been endeavoring to secure 

 a central factory for their own locality and 

 have effected an organization under the name 

 of Central Griffith. We understand that .Mr. 

 Owen Calvert, who is representing the George 

 L. Squier .Mfg. Co. of Buffalo, New York, is 

 taking an active interest in this matter. We 

 learn of no description of the machinery for 

 the new factory, but it is expected to grind 

 600 acres of cane the coming season, which 

 should represent some 15,000 tons of sugar- 

 cane and 1,500 tons or something over 10,000 

 bags of sugar in output. 



The proposition made to the colonists is to 

 pay for the sugar-cane delivered at the central 

 factory the value of 5 % of the weight of the 

 cane in sugar, taking the official Havana mar- 

 ket price as the standard for payment. The 

 basis is 96 test sugar and at the price made for 

 use on the Havana market on the third Tues- 

 day of each month. These figures give 125 

 pounds of 96 test sugar, or rather its price on 



the Havana market, for every 100 arrobas, or 

 say 2,500 pounds of sugar-cane delivered at 

 the factory. 



In discussing the matter, a yield of 40 tons 

 of cane per acre is spoken of, a yield in value 

 reaching .$250 per acre. While here in Louisi- 

 ana we have got at times over 50 tons of cane 

 per acre, the average of 40 tons herein esti- 

 mated for Cuba would, in our opinion, be a 

 matter of some doubt, but a possible yield for 

 the first year or two. The cane growers of that 

 vicinity are urged to take the matter up at 

 once, because but little in the way of cane 

 growing has been done there for several years 

 and the people once out of the habit and en- 

 gaged in other industries will require some in- 

 ducement from the sugar centrals to return 

 to and engage in cane culture as was done for- 

 merly. The compensation of 5% in weight of 

 sugar of the weight of the sugar-cane is cer- 

 tainly a liberal one and we shall hope that 

 this new American colony with its little cen- 

 tral factory inaugurated after some years of 

 endeavor will meet with success in all of its 

 efforts and be a profitable undertaking to its 

 promoters. — The L ouidana Planter. 



WAX FROM SUGAR-CANE WASTE 



Numerous investigations by the British 

 Imperial Institute relating to the development 

 of Empire industry and trade are summarized 

 in a report recently presented to the executive 

 council of the Institute. Considerable attention 

 is placed on the report which has to do with 

 the production of wax from sugar-cane waste. 



A considerable amount of attention has 

 been given in recent years to the recovery of 

 wax from the waste produced in the extraction 

 of sugar from the sugar cane, and this industry 

 has now been started on a small scale in Natal. 

 Samples of the first consignment of Natal 

 sugar-cane wax shipped to England have been 

 examined at the British Imperial Institute 

 and found to be of good quality, cjuite equal 

 to that of the first trial samples made and 

 examined. Sugar-cane wax is now becoming 

 better known on the market, and could be 

 used as a substitute for the better known 

 carnauba wax in the manufacture of gram- 

 ophone records, polishes, candles and other 

 things. — Sugar. 



