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THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



ESTABLISHMENT OF SUGAR REFINERIES 

 IN CUBA 



Under date i)f Mardi 2Ttli, Mr. II. U. 

 Neville writes as follows in Facts About 

 Sugar: 



The movement to establish refineries in 

 connection with the sugar mills of Cuba 

 is raiiidly gaining strength. A number of 

 mill owners are figuring on the construc- 

 tion of refining plants which shall make 

 them independent of the foreign refiners 

 to whom they are now constrained to sell 

 the bulk of their raw product. One con- 

 tract for the erection of a refinery has 

 already been closed by the Algodones 

 Sugar Company, whose main owners are 

 General Jctse Miguel Gomez and Dr. Ores- 

 tes Ferrara. 



The refinei-y, which is to cost between 

 $l.r>00,<XK> and .$1,7.~.(MiOO. is to be erected 

 at Algodones. Camaguey, wliere the com- 

 pany at present operates a central mill, 

 and the contractors, the Foundation 

 Company of New York, already have a 

 force of men on the ground preparing to 

 receive the machinery. It was first in- 

 tended to l)uikl a char house only, but 

 as this would require using the machin- 

 ery of the central mill, and the refinery, 

 accordingly, could not operate during the 

 annual harvest, the owners decided in 

 favor of a complete independent refining 

 plant. 



The addition of refineries and the en- 

 largement of the capacities of their mills 

 is also under consideration l)y the United 

 and Atlantic fruit companies. Secretary 

 P. K. Reynolds of the former and Vice- 

 President Norman McLeod of the latter 

 company are at present in Cuba with the 

 object of studying tlie in-olilems involved. 



COMPANIA AZUCARERA YAGUANABO 

 A new development project for eastern 

 Cuba is proposed by the Compania Azu- 

 carera Taguanabo of Holguin, recently 

 formed by well-known sugar men with a 

 capitalization of .$8,000,000. This com- 

 pany has acquired 1,3.50 caballerias (45,- 

 000 acres) of land between Victoria de las 

 Tunas, Oraaja and Marti, and is nego- 



tiating for .jSO caltallcrias more in the 

 same Ideality, where it is proposed to put 

 iqi a central of large capacity. 



The capital stock is divided into 40,000 

 shares of preferred of $100 par value and 

 80,000 shares of common at $50 par value. 

 The proix»sed plan of development is in 

 colonias of not more than 20 caballerias 

 each, to be operated preferably by agri- 

 culturists who are shareholders. 



The officers of the company are Con- 

 stantino I'upo, field manager of Central 

 Chaparra, president ; Maximiliano Cur- 

 helo, a colono of Chaparra, vice-president ; 

 German Diaz, secretary ; Vicente Grau, 

 vice-secretary ; Eugenio M. Barbero, 

 treasurer; Jonquin Aguirre, vice-treas- 

 urer. 



INCREASING USE OF AMERICAN SUGAR 

 MACHINERY IN TRINIDAD 



In an exhaustive re])oi-t ftn the use of 

 American sugar machinery in Trinidad, 

 Consul Henry D. Baker says in part : 



During the sugar-crop season of 1919, 

 15 sugar-cane factories of Trinidad showed 

 a total producti(m of 47.8.50 tons of sugar. 

 It is estimated that these factories, in 

 Itreparing for the season of 1920, will al- 

 fogetlier purcliase about $2,50,000. worth 

 of sugar machinery and 0(|uipnu'nt, a large 

 pi'ojwrtion of sucii orders g(ting to the 

 United States. It may he calculated 

 roughly tliat foi' cxci'v ion of sugar pro- 

 duced in this island during a given season, 

 about $25 will be siu'ut in replacements, 

 extension, and betterments of machinery 

 and equipment to get factories more fully 

 and economically in readiness for the suc- 

 ceeding season. The output of sugar in 

 this island in 1910 was luifavorably af- 

 fected, as it was also in 191*^. hy a short 

 ci-op of <;m('s. In 1!>1T, Tit.^Ol tons of 

 sugar were made in Trinidad, 04.2.31 tons 

 in 1910. .5.S,882 tons in 191.5, and .55,488 

 tons in 1914. With the exception of the 

 year 1918, when 4.5.250 tons of sugar were 

 produced, the output for the season of 

 1919 was the lowest since 1913, when 42,- 

 .331 tons \\ere produced. The average out- 

 put for the last 20 years has been above 

 OO.OOO tons. 



