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also covers purchases and allotments from 

 different sources during the period. These 

 totaled 1,083,189 tons, of which S02,237 tons 

 were from Cuba, 133,523 tons from Porto 

 Rico, 31,192 tons from Santo Domingo, 8,751 

 tons from Peru, 3,146 tons from Surinam, 

 3,099 tons from Venezuela and 1,241 tons from 

 Honduras. Out of this 44,990 tons of full- 

 duty foreign sugars were allotted to Canada 

 and 1,390 tons were allotted to the trade. 



United States refiners' receipts of raw 

 sugar from foreign countries other than Cuba 

 were only 5,608 tons during the quarter, of 

 which 3,303 tons from Venezuela, 461 tons 

 from Surinam, 193 tons from Santo Domingo, 

 112 tons from Peru, and 6 tons from Colum- 

 bia were received at New York, and 1,533 

 tons from Honduras were received at New 

 Orleans. These low figures for foreign raws 

 are explained by the fact that practically all 

 full-duty foreign sugars have been allotted 

 to Canadian refineries. 



LARGE MANCHURIAN SUGAR FACTORY 

 FOR SALE 



The governor general at JNIukden, in order 

 to raise funds, proposes to sell the Hulan Beet 

 Sugar Factory, situated on the north bank 

 of the river at Harben. The sum 

 expended for construction, including drains, 

 embankments on the river and machinery 

 installed, amounted to the equivalent of 

 $1,658,240 United States gold. This sum in- 

 cludes $32,000 worth of seeds and farm land, 

 valued at $64,000. The amoimt asked for 

 the entire plant, together with the land and 

 seeds mentioned, is $1,499,400 United States 

 gold. The following statement of this prop- 

 erty has been submitted by one of the of- 

 ficials concerned: 



Engines (the whole set), original price 900,- 

 000 Shanghai taels, now worth $1,152,000 

 United States currency; workshop, original 

 cost of construction $156,000, now worth 

 $128,000; ditches leading water to factory 

 from harbor, original cost of construction 

 $78,000, now worth $64,000; offices and rest 

 houses, original cost of construction, $88,400, 

 now worth $76,800; site for the whole factory, 

 original cost, $2,600, now worth $6,400; river 

 embankment works, original cost of construc- 

 tion, $10,400, now worth $10,240; implements 

 and equipment of the whole factory, estimated 

 at $32,000; accessories now in factory, esti- 

 mated at $89,600; seeds now in factory, es- 

 timated at $32,000; 5,455 acres of farm land, 

 valued at about $64,000, mud houses on the 

 plantation, valued at about $3,200. 



The erection of this factory was begun in 

 1907, and the buildings and equipment were 

 coni])letod in 1909. All the machinery was 

 purchased from German manufacturers, pay- 

 ment for which was made by mstallmcnts, 

 the entire amount due having been fully paid. 

 The plant is unencumbered and belongs 

 solely to the Fengtien government, the funds 

 for the enterprise having been obtained from 

 the provincial treasury. Any persons inter- 

 ested m this plant should communicate direct 

 with the Chief of the Buieau of Finance, 

 Mukden, China. 



MAURITIUS SUGAR 1917-1918 



The Mauritius sugar crop for the 1917-18 

 season is placed by the statistician of the 

 Mauritius Department oi Agriculture at 224,- 

 000 metric tons (metric ton 2,204.6 pounds) 

 against 209,669 tons for 1916-17. Tlie 1917- 

 18 figures are based on an estimate of 2,102,- 

 000 metric tons of cane, with an average ex- 

 traction of 10.6% as against 9.91 per cent for 

 the 1916-17 crop, when the cane production 

 was about the same as in the present season. 



Of the 1917-18 crop the latest leturns of the 

 Mauritius Chamber of Commerce show that 

 from August 1 to November 16, 1917, there 

 had been brought upon the local market 130,- 

 879 tons, of which 77,585 tons were sliipped. 

 (Sugar usually forms about 95% — in value — 

 of the total exports of the colony. AU but 

 7,700 tons of the 1916-17 crop was exported). 

 The sugar season in Mauritius begins in 

 August, and the cutting of t.he cane ends in 

 December, while shipments take place from 

 August to July. 



Since the beginning of the war the Ijulk of 

 the Mauritius sugar has been taken over by 

 the British Government. According to the 

 November 1917 issue of the Monthly Mavri- 

 tius Commercial Bulletin and Comparative 

 Statement of Sugar- the f^ovemor of the- 

 colony has been notified that the British 

 Go\ernment proposes to puichase all of the 

 output of crystal sugar of the 1917-18 crop 

 at the following rates per net hundredweight 

 (112 pounds), f. o. b. Port Louis: fine to 

 finest, 17s. ($4.14); good to fine, 16s. 8d- 

 ($4.06); medium to fine, 16s. 4d. ($3.97). The 

 notice states that large quantities of the same 

 grade and color are preferred. The factories 

 have been requested to turn out as few 

 grades of sugar as possible and to give atten- 

 tion to whiteness of color and regularitj^ of 

 grain rather than to size of grain. — Consul 

 James G. Carter, Tananarivo, Madagascar. 



