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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



MOVEMENT OF CUBAN CROP 



It is most gratifying to note the satisfactory 

 progress that has been made to date in the 

 ti-ansportation of the Cuban crop, as reflected 

 in the fact that up to the first of June an 

 amount of sugar actually has been shipped 

 from Cuba which is about the same as that 

 which has normally moved over the corres- 

 ponding period in previous years. In view of 

 this remarkably good record, which has been 

 made under adverse conditions and at a time 

 when the United States Shipping Board has 

 had numerous and urgent demands from many 

 other sources, it must be apparent to all sugar 

 interests that the transportation problem 

 with reference to this year's crop has been 

 solved, and there need exist no further 

 anxiety on the part of any shipper or any 

 receiver concerning the question of moving 

 the balance of the crop during the remainder 

 of this year. 



The quantity of sugar which has been 

 moved to date has been handled by 

 a less amount of vessel tonnage than ever 

 previously engaged in the Cuban trade 

 for the transportation of a like amount of 

 sugar. This is manifestly due to the hearty 

 co-operation which has been evinced by all 

 interests in Cuba, by hastening despatch in 

 the loading of steamers and by the hearty 

 co-operation of the refineries in the United 

 States who have left no effort unexpended 

 in their endeavors to discharge the steamers 

 with all possible despatch. 



Now that the period of anxiety is past 

 and the movement of the crop is an assured 

 fact, it must be a source of great satisfaction 

 to all those who have so successfully con- 

 tributed towards this end. They only have 

 to look back a few months to the time when 

 tonnage conditions were so precarious and the 

 transportation of the Cuban sugars was so 

 uncertain that all interests were anxious lest 

 there would not be sufficient tonnage to move 

 the crop. 



The Cuba Review is pleased to have this 

 opportunity of bringing these facts to the 

 attention of all its readers, because it believes 

 that the broad-minded spirit which has thus 

 been evinced is just one more contribution 

 towards winning the war. 



NEW CENTRALS AT CAMAGUEY 



A company has beer organized who propose- 

 to erect a central at Colorado, province of 

 Camaguey, and among those interested in the 

 proposition are the following: Messrs. Julio 

 Alvarez, Carlos Martinez, Jos6 A. Castellanos, 

 Francisco Jimenez, Andres Ramos and 

 Pancho Bravo. 



It is said that fourteen million arrobas of 

 cane have already been contracted for. The 

 proposed central will have a capacity for 

 120,000 bags, and will be named "Colorado."" 

 It is probable that grinding will begin in 

 December. 



Some time ago it was announced that 

 Snare & Triest would erect a new cential at. 

 Cespedes (Camaguey), for the zafra of 

 1918-19, and that the new central would be- 

 named " San Manuel," but it is said now 

 that this central will not be erected at 

 Cespedes, and that another company has 

 been organized who will take over all the- 

 existing contracts of the "San Manuel" 

 central. This company will erect a central at 

 Caspar, a few miles west of Cespedes, and 

 it will be named "Lincoln." 



SUGAR FROM SHREDDED CANE 



The United Fruit Company will begin its- 

 Louisiana experiments with the Preston 

 process on shredded Cuban sugar cane at the 

 Myrtle Grove factory located on the Missis- 

 sippi River about 4.5 miles from here, as soon 

 as the Treasury Department issues the 

 permit for unloading vessels there. The cane 

 will come from the fruit company's vast sugar 

 estates at Preston, Cuba, and the Myrtle 

 Grove experiments will be under the direction 

 of J. H. Roberts, patentee of the process. 

 Its success will mean the establishment here 

 of a large plant for turning out sugar 

 shredded cane imported from the trop- 

 ical countries. Shredded cane is cane 

 with all the moisture extracted from it. In 

 this condition immense amounts of cane with 

 only the sugar still in could be shipped to the 

 United States at proportionally small cost. 



Over 20,000 tons of sugar mill machinery 

 junk are being taken out of the Louisiana 

 sugar houses, while new machinery of the 

 most modern types is being installed. 



