THE CUBA REVIEW 



29 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



THE CENTRAL DELICIAS 



On January l.j. 1912. this great Cuban 

 sugar factory, having a capacity of 3,000 

 tons of cane per day, began its initial 

 campaign, and it is expected to crusli, 

 during the grinding season, over 400,000 

 tons of cane and to add approximately 

 300,000 bags of sugar to the output of the 

 Pearl of the Antilles. The following de- 

 scription is from the Louisiana Planter. 

 Delicias lies at the eastern end of Cuba, 

 a comparatively undeveloped region, but 

 now clustered with such leviathans as 

 Chaparra. Boston. Cape Cruz, Preston. 

 Soledad. Isabel. Santa Lucia and a dozen 

 other factories which have either been 

 constructed in their entirety since the 

 Spanish war or have had their capacity 

 greatly enlarged. 



Delicias is one of nine factories belong- 

 ing to the Cuban-American Sugar Co. of 

 Xew York, the others being Gramercy. 

 in Louisiana, and Chaparra, San JManuel. 

 Tinguaro. Nueva Liusa, Constancia. Uni- 

 dad, Mercedita and the Cuban Sugar Re- 

 finery, in Cuba, the combined output of 

 the whole aggregating thousands of tons 

 of sugar yearly. 



The designing and construction of the 

 entire plant was done by the engineering 

 department of the Cuban-American Com- 

 pany. Work of erection was begun 

 April 29, 1911. and the wheels began to 

 revolve for the current crop January 1"). 

 1912. 



Delicias has two crushing units, each a 

 12-roller and crusher installation, with 

 mill rolls 36"x84", and each unit has a 

 capacity of 1.500 tons of cane per day. 



The five vacuum pans are each 13 feet 

 in diameter and discharge into 24 crys- 

 tallizers, 9 feet in diameter and 24 feet 

 long. The defecation system is the open 

 settling tank with steam coils The boiler 

 plant consists of 21) multi-tubular boilers. 

 seven feet in diameter and twenty feet 

 long. Sixteen of these are equipped with 

 bagasse furnaces and four with coal fur- 

 naces. The smokestacks are of steel, with 

 a diameter of 10 feet and a height of 

 175 feet. There are two evaporating in- 

 stallations, of Standard type, each with 

 21,000 square feet of evaporating surface, 

 and there are 28 40-inch water-driven cen- 

 trifugals, these stretching for a hundred 

 and fifty feet in a straight line. Wherever 

 possible, electric power is utilized to drive 

 the machinery and all auxiliary parts of 

 the plant are motor-driven. There is an 

 electric power station with three 1,000 K. W. 

 turbo-generators, 4S0 volts, 3.000 revolu- 

 tions per minute, and l)oth salt and fresh 



waters are handled by electric pumps, the 

 pumping station being about a mile from 

 the factory. 



PROPOSED CENTRAL AT MANATI 



A recent communication to The Cuba 

 Review regarding this new mill is as fol- 

 knvs : 



"In reply to your favor I beg to say that 

 'his matter seems to be just started. I 

 understand that a company has been 

 formed, in which ]\Ir. Eduardo D. Ul- 

 zurrum, R. Truffin and others are inter- 

 ested and that they have taken over the 

 land which formerly belonged to Mr. Ul- 

 zurrum. They are beginning to figure out 

 plans for the central, but nothing definite 

 has been decided on, and probably there 

 will be some time before they reach the 

 stage of ordering machinery." 



Adolph Pauli. the German minister to 

 Cuba, has been recalled, says La Ultima 

 Hora, because he failed to press the Ger- 

 man war claims ayainst Cuba. 



RECIIMIK) DEL 



CANONERO cubano 



"CUBA" 



nil peaido jiara una ifrande cantiilail de 

 la CEXUIXA 



EMPAQUETADURA "EUREKA" 



t-n tamafius surtidcis. 



Si EUREKA es aceptada por la marina 

 de su pais. ;. no sera buena para Vd. ? 

 Se haya de venta en esa localidad. 

 Tenga la seguridad de especificar "EU- 

 REK.V" GENUINA. piies hay imitaciones. 



EUREKA PACKING CO. 

 78=80 Murray St., New York, U.S.A. 



