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as it must, his position will become 

 more and more difficult. 



Quite clearly the tendency toward 

 centralization in the business has 

 been written into the figures: in 

 1800, with a 24,000 ton production 

 of sugar, there were 870 factories in 

 Cuba; by 1870, with a 725,000 ton 

 production, there were 1,000 fac- 

 tories a 3200 per cent, increase in 

 production with only a sixteen per 

 cent, increase in the number of fac- 

 tories already centralization on a 

 small scale had begun to set in; in 

 1890, with a 625,000 ton production, 

 there were but 470 factories; while 

 in 1911, with nearly a 2,000,000 ton 

 production, there were but 168 fac- 

 tories. 



Yet organization and centraliza- 

 tion, which, as can be seen, have been 

 the tendency for more than a cen- 

 tury, are really only at their be- 

 ginning in Cuba sugar operations 

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