THE CUBA REVIEW 



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PLATE V. 



Chart of Total Amount of Importations and Exportations of the Repub- 

 lic of Cuba, classifiod according to source of prochiction. during the year 

 1916, as compared with those of 11)15. 



Imports: 



Ooods free of dut}' 



Nutritious substances 



Fabrics and its manufactures 



Instruments, machinery and apparatus 



Metals and its manufactures 



Substances used for Pharmacy, Chemical Industries, 



Perfumeries, etc 



Animals and their parts 



Stones, earth, and ceramic products 



Lumber and other veoetable materials 



Paper and its applications 



Miscellaneous 



Money 



Totals for 1915 and 1910 



Column 1 from left 



3 

 4 

 5 



6 

 7 

 8 

 9 



10 

 11 

 12 

 13 



Exports : 



Raw sugar Column 14 from right 



Refined, honey, aguardientes, liquors, etc " 13 



Leaf tobacco " 12 



Tobacco and its manufactures " H 



Cocoa, fruits, garden products, etc., etc " 10 



Wood, fibres and dyestuffs " 9 



Animals, hides and other parts " 8 



Apiary products " 7 



Mineral products " 6 



Fisheries " 5 



Other products " 4 



Foreign goods " 3 



Money.: " 2 " " 



Totals for 1915 and 1916 " 1 " 



Note: 



Black Line — Liiports 1915. 

 White Line — Imports 1916. 

 Broken Straight Line — Exports 1915. 

 Broken Angle Line — Exports 1916. 



FREEPORT ?< MEXICAN OIL COFPORATION 



The Freeport & Mexican Oil Corporation 

 are about to erect at Matanzas, a plant con- 

 sisting of .six tanks, having a capacity of two 

 million gallons each, for the handling and sale 

 of crude oil imported by tank steamers from 

 Texas and Mexico. It is intended that the 

 necessary- materials and working force will 

 arrive in time to have the tanks ready for 

 operation in about three months. The prop- 

 erty acquired by this corjioratioii is directly 



in back of the Armour Fertilizer Plant at 

 whose new wharf the tank steamers will dis- 

 charge. They will also .supply the Armour 

 Company with crude oil as a fuel, instead of 

 coal, which has previously been used. The 

 Oil Corporation is also in negotiation with 

 various sugar centrales, which, on account of 

 the present scarcity of coal in Cuba, plan to 

 convert their boilers so that oil may be used 

 instead. It is also planned to supply fuel oil 

 to steamers and to develop a business of some 

 nuisinitudc. 



