THE CUBA REVIEW 



29 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



OUTPUT OF TWO BIG MILLS 



The United Fruit Co. has closed its 

 grinding season at its Banes and Xipe 

 Bay Co. mills in Oriente Province. The 

 output of the Banes mill represented a 

 handsome increase of 56 percent, or 52,- 

 000,000 pounds of sugar over the 1911 

 results. Total outturn at this plant of 

 144,000,000 pounds of sugar was actually 

 several million pounds more than any other 

 single plant in Cuba, says the IVall Street 

 Journal. United Fruit has, for some time, 

 been the largest sugar factor in Cuba, but 

 this is the first year that the Banes mill 

 alone has surpassed its closest competitor, 

 the Chaparra. 



Taking the Banes and Xipe mills to- 

 gether, however, sugar production of the 

 late season showed a gain of 45,000.000 

 pounds, or 24 per cent. Total production 

 this year will be about 230.000,000 pounds 

 against 187,000,000 pounds in 1911. The 

 explanation is that Xipe production fell off 

 somewhat during the late year, while the 

 Banes mill made a handsome recovery. 



In the season just ended, however. United 

 Fruit will earn close to $2,000,000 from its 



Banes operation, or 3Vi> times the 1911 

 aggregate. The year 1912 has been the 

 second best year in the company's history. 



The sugar receipts to September 14th 

 compare as follows : 



Tons Mills grinding 



1912 1,857,138 1 



1911 1,459,789 



1910 1,790,000 



The ownership of the "San Juan Ban- 

 tista" sugar estate in Canasi, Matanzas 

 Province, has been aquired by Senores 

 Jose Lombargo, Miguel Tamargo, Gerardo 

 Guiterrez und Joaquin Cata. The new 

 owners propose to improve the mill and will 

 install new machinery, add to their cane 

 fields and increase the mileage of the plan- 

 tation railwav. 



Central Union in Oriente Province has 

 finished grinding with 78,240 bags as its 

 yield. It has averaged heretofore, taking 

 the output for the last four years, 45,000 

 bags annuallv. 



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