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THE CUBA REVIEW 



NOTES ABOUT SUGAR 



ON PAPER FROM BAGASSE 



William Railt, cellulose expert to the 

 India Provinces Exhibition of 1910, wrote 

 as follows on this question : 



"Cane sugar factories are usually situated 

 in localities where all manufactured goods 

 have to_ be imported at a considerable cost 

 for freight, etc., and probably import du- 

 ties also. Where such circumstances exist, 

 together with a sufficient local demand for 

 unbleached wrapping and packing papers, 

 or even for the thin unbleached paper so 

 largely used by the natives of India, and 

 elsewhere, _ for correspondence and ac- 

 counts, it is quite possible that the paper 

 mill may prove a very profitable auxiliary 

 to the sugar factory, and that the bagasse 

 may be worth considerably more for this 

 purpose than its present fuel value. A 

 paper mill for this class of paper, to pro- 

 duce 40 or 50 tons per week, would cost 

 roughly £20,000. A conservative estimate 

 of the cost of production under average 

 conditions, exclusive of the fuel value of 

 the bagasse, but including repairs, depre- 

 ciation and 5 per cent interest on cost of 

 plant, amounts to ilO 12s. a ton. Under 

 the conditions above referred to, the 



product should be worth £l5, leaving £4 8s. 

 as the paper-making value of the two tons 

 of bagasse required to produce it, or say 

 £2 per ton. The cost of steam and coal 

 to replace it in the sugar factory furnaces 

 would be at the outside 30s. a ton. In 

 calorific effect a ton of good steam coal is 

 usually assumed to be equal to four tons 

 of bagasse, so that the value of the latter 

 as fuel cannot exceed 8s. per ton. De- 

 ducting this, there remains an estimated 

 profit of 32s. per ton of bagasse converted 

 into paper." — The International Sugar 

 Journal, Aug, 1912. 



NEW CENTRAL READY 



A new central factory expects to rnake 

 its first crop in the coming season ; this is 

 "Central Moron," of the Central Moron 

 Sugar Company, situated in Camaguey 

 Province, where its holdings amount to 

 about 35,000 acres of land. This factory 

 is built entirely of iron and glass, thereby 

 having an excellent light throughout. 

 Central Moron expects to make 150,000 

 bags of sugar its first crop. — La Gloria 

 Cuban-American. 



A chart is brought to your desk each morning. This chart is a written record — a graphic 

 story — of the temperature maintained throughout the previous day in any sugar process. 



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 unpolished facts of just how much your men are on the job. It points out to you possibilities 

 of improvements, etc. Such is the service given you by the 



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Pen arm is adjustable and pens are of glass, non-corrosive 

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