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THE CUBA REVIEW 



As further showing the trend of sugar development in Cuba, we give the foUownig table 

 showing mills that have begun operating since the spring of 191-i, as also others that since that 

 date have been so remodelled as to represent practically new construction. It will be noted 

 that the latter occur largely in the west, where conditions were becommg worse under the 

 old prices, causing these mills to be neglected and just about prepared for the scrap pile. 



Name of mill 



Province 



Capacity 



Artemisa Pinar del Rio. 



Galope Pinar del Rio. 



Virginia Pinar del Rio. 



Fortuna Havana 



Habana Havana 



Hershey Havana 



Nombre de Dies. . . . Havana 



Occidente Havana 



Australia Matanzas.. . . 



Espaiia Matanzas... . 



Cabaiguan Santa Clara. . 



Las Villas Santa Clara. . 



Tayaba Santa Clara. . 



Violete Santa Clara.. 



Adelaida Camaguey . . . 



Agran:onte Camaguey. . . 



Algodones Camaguey. . . . 



Bai'Egua Camaguey. . . 



Camaguey Camaguey . . . 



Cespedes Camaguey . . , 



Ciego de Avila Camaguey . . . 



Cunagua Camaguey ... 



Klia Camaguey. . . 



Florida Camaguey. . . 



Lugareiio Camaguey. . . 



Patria Camaguey. . . 



Punta Alegra Camaguey . . . . 



Santo Tom as Camaguey. .. . 



Alto Cedro Oriente 



Baguamos Oriente 



Cacocum Oriente 



Cupey Oriente 



Marimon Oriente 



Miranda Orierte 



Mcnora Oriente 



Orierte Or'erte 



Palma Oriente 



Tacajo Oriente 



Union Oriente 



90,000 

 80,000 

 100,000 



40,000 



First 



Year 



1918 



1917 



1917 



1915 



(Old mill) 



200,000 Grinds 1919 



(Old mill) 



1917 



1916 



(Old mill) . . 



1917 



Grinds 1919 



Grinds 1919 



1916 



1917 



1916 



1917 



1917 



1915 



1916 



1915 



Crop Bags 



1916 



Made 

 1917 



17,500 

 75,000 



200,000 

 150,000 



200,000 



250,000 

 75,000 



180,000 

 150.0C0 



100,000 



21,040 



147 



17,829 



16,542 

 28,500 



20,644 



74,002 

 16,022 

 65,73] 

 48,132 

 106,522 

 99,286 

 30,071 

 112,716 



53,096 

 34,679 



92,516 

 44,666 



29,520 



161,636 



105,950 



141,183 



1916 



1916 



(Old Mill) 



1916 



1917 



1917 



1917 



Grinds 1919. 



24,295 

 74,091 



32,485 

 54.306 

 15,554 

 41,779 



153,791 



1£0,CC0 

 100,000 

 250,000 



1916 29,362 



Date of grinding not known. 



104,313 

 199,730 



120,635 

 64,809 



73,784 

 32,605 

 140,815 



65,405 

 84,577 

 67,608 

 40,000 



73,488 



1916 

 1917 

 1916 

 1917 

 1915 



3,384 



9,5C0 



70,193 



20,368 



11,500 



63,880 



5,118 

 73,503 

 52,000 



Estimate 

 1918 

 90,000 

 45,000 

 60,000 

 90,000 

 85,000 



60,000 

 40,000 

 140,000 

 375,000 

 70,000 



120,000 

 180,000 

 330,000 

 130,000 

 175,000 

 125,000 



80,000 

 140,000 

 120,000 

 140,000 

 100,000 

 280,000 



90,000 

 200,000 



70,000 

 175,000 



70,0000 

 125,000 



125,000 

 12,000 

 100,000 

 250,000 

 150,000 

 60,000 



The following comment will be helpful in studying this table: The soils of Pinar del Rio 

 Province are not generally adapted to the cultivation of cane. In the western part, in fact, 

 west of Artemisa, they are light and sandy, and have not the strength or depth to produce 

 the considerable number of rattoon crops that are required here in years of ordinary prices to 

 make cane growing really successful. Occasional pockets or areas of soil are found that may 

 support tor a while a mill of small grinding capacity. These conditions are met with in the 

 Galope mill, situated near a body of this class of soil near the mouth ol the Cuyaguateje River. 

 Virginia is on another such body of land on the south coast, and doubtless will obtain good 

 crops of cane heavy in sucrose for a number of years. But this whole western district is cyclone 

 swept, and not attractive to one who knows the cane game. That it could be made to produce 

 a large amount of cane and sugar was shown by the results ot the 1917 harvest in which the 

 total production of Pinar del Rio Province overran the estimate by almost 50%. 



In Havana Province, whose soil is as a general thing well adapted to cane culture, we 

 observe that three new mills have gone in and two old ones rebuilt and made new. None of 

 them are of large capacity except Hershey, and this mill is beilng ]>laced where an old one ex- 

 isted, but where local conditions had kept down the cultivation of sugar cane. That the loca- 

 tion was s?lected solely from the standpoint of an excellent cane producing soil, we know to 



