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THE CUBA REVIEW 



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Revere Sugar Refinery. Boston. 



considerable expansion. The machinery and equipment for handling the various 

 products are of the most modern and up to date type, all the finished products being 

 handled by conveyors and automatic machinery. The sugar is not touched by human 

 hands from the time it is boiled in the vacuum pans until it reaches the consumer in 

 the various packages. 



A permanent, fireproof wharf, 647 feet long by 130 feet wide, has been con- 

 structed and affords ample berth room for two steamers. The wharf is covered by 

 a shed of steel and brick, having a storage capacity of 20,000 tons of raw sugar. 

 This shed is equipped with overhead cranes ensuring quick, economical handling of 

 raw sugar. The dock has been dredged to a depth of 30 feet, mean low water, and is 

 connected with the main channel of the Mystic River, recently dredged to the same 

 depth by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



All these features combine to make the new plant of the Revere Sugar Refinery 

 the most modern and best equipped refinery in the world, capable of turning out 

 3,500 barrels of sugar daily. The Revere Sugar Refinery has always confined itself 

 to the manufacture of the highest grades of refined sugar, which have been recognized 

 as being unrivalled in purity and uniformity of quality. 



EXCELLENT OUTLOOK FOR CUBAN 

 TOBACCO 



To date, Nov. 27, the various tobacco- 

 growing districts of the Republic have 

 shipped to the Habana market some 440,- 

 063 bales of tobacco of the new crop. 

 Included in these shipments are 216,634 

 bales of the tobacco known in Cuba as 

 "Remedios," the yield of which is un- 

 usually large this season. 



At present there is plenty of tobacco 

 offered for sale in the market and still a 

 great deal left in the fields. However, as 

 soon as maritime traffic becomes normal 

 and the Scandinavian countries and South 



America begin to place their orders, ex- 

 isting stocks will be quickly exhausted 

 and prices may reach extraordinary 

 levels. It is predicted that there will be 

 keen rivalry between foreign consumers 

 and Cuban manufacturers and that these 

 latter will be obliged to bid high in order 

 to secure the stocks necessary to fill 

 orders lately received by cable and those 

 which are expected to follow during the 

 opening months of 1919. Orders are al- 

 ready on hand from Argentina, Chile, and 

 Uruguay calling for 17,000 bales of leaf 

 tobacco. — Consular Assistant George A. 

 Makinson, Cardenas. 



