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THE CUBA REVIEW 



A MODERN SUGAR FACTCRY 



View of the Jobabo sugar mill, at Jobabo, Oriente Province. It is owned by the Cuba Company. 

 Mr. L. M. A. Evans is the superintendent. 



THE JOBABO MILL 



The output for the Jobabo Mill for the 

 last crop was 136,000 bags. 



The installation of a new mill is prac- 

 tically complete, and the estimated output 

 for the coming year will be 250,000 bags, 

 and Mr. Evans will remain superintendent. 



There having been rumors that a super- 

 intendent would be appointed to succeed 

 Mr. Skaife, who recently died, an enquiry 

 at the Cuba Company office in New York 

 elicited the information that Mr. Wm. W. 

 Craib had been appointed executive agent 

 in Cuba of the Cuba Company with refer- 

 ence to its sugar mill properties. 



Sir William Van Home (the president) 

 states in the annual report that the capacity 

 of the Jobabo sugar mill of the Cuba Com- 

 pany is being doubled for the coming har- 

 vest, and three large independent sugar 

 mills are under construction along the rail- 

 way. 



The acreage of this great estate is over 

 3,400 caballerias, over 113,000 acres. There 

 are 35 squares of 8 caballerias each under 

 cultivation and the estate also gets its cane 

 from Tana, a short distance up the road. 



The estate employs no colonos, planting 

 and harvesting its own cane. In season 

 there are 1,200 men employed including 

 cane cutters. 



The company has taken a part of the 

 batey and established a town and named it 

 ■Jobabo after the mill. 



The plantation and mill work is under 

 the direction of Mr. L. M. A. Evans, 

 superintendent. . r-- 



L. M. A. Evans, superintendent 

 sugar mill. 



f the Jobabo 



