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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



SUGAR CONSUMPTION INCREASING 



A bulletin issued by the United States 

 Department of Commerce gives a pre- 

 liminary report of the statistics of sugar 

 production and sugar imports during the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1913. These 

 figures show a marked increase both in 

 domestic production and in imports from 

 Cuba, indicating that the consumption of 

 sugar in the United States is advancing 

 very rapidly, says the Philadelphia (Pa.) 

 Item. 



During the year according to the report 

 the quantity of sugar sent to the United 

 States by Cuba was in excess of four 

 billion pounds while the output of the in- 

 sular possessions and of the continental 

 portion of the country also was approxi- 

 mately four billion pounds. On this sub- 

 ject the report says: 



"These figures, which show that the 

 sugar imported in 1913 exceeded that of 

 any other year, suggest that the sugar con- 

 sumption of the United States in 1913 will 

 be larger than ever before and will, for 

 the first time, exceed S billion pounds. The 

 quantity brought from foreign countries is 

 above 4% billion pounds, and from Hawaii 

 and Porto Rico nearly 2 billion, while the 



domestic production now approximates 2 

 billion pounds, the figures for 1912 being, 

 of beet sugar about 1,200 million pounds, 

 and of cane sugar, 724 million pounds. 

 Speaking in very round terms, it may be 

 said that foreign countries supply approxi- 

 mately one-half of the sugar consumed in 

 the United States, our own islands about 

 onefourth, and our own fields about one- 

 fourth. Cuba supplies nine-tenths of that 

 from abroad ; Hawaii, about one-half of 

 that from our islands ; and beets, nearly 

 twothirds of that produced at home. 



"Sugar from Cuba makes its highest 

 record in 1913, 4,311,744,043 pounds against 

 3,509,657,597 pounds in the former high- 

 record year, 1910." 



SUGAR GROWERS ORGANIZE 



Sugar cane growers of the Guantanamo 

 Valley recently organized a protective asso- 

 ciation. Their intentions are to make the 

 organization a national one. 



SUGAR REFINERY DESTROYED 



The H. R. Estrada sugar refinery at 

 Cardenas was destroyed by fire on August 

 30th. The insurance was $200,000. 



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