THE CUBA REVIEW 19 
LUMBER MARKET IN CUBA 
Cuba takes approximately three-fourths of the lumber exports from the United 
States to the West Indies; in the case of certain items the Cuban proportion is still 
larger, haying been practically four-fifths of yellow pine in 1920. The rapid growth 
in the lumber trade with Cuba is indicated by the statistics, as yet incomplete, of 
the 1920 trade, for the total value of only 5 of the larger items is nearly 100 per cent. 
more than the total of 29 items in 1919. 
REMARKABLE GAIN IN- LUMBER EXPORTS. 
Recent gains in quantities as well as values are shown by the following table of 
exports of lumber from the United States to Cuba in 1918, 1919, and 1920, the record 
for last year including only the five large items for which complete statistics have 
been compiled : 
1918 1919 1920 
Ttems Quantity Value Quantity Value Quantity Value 
Logs and round timber: 
NGelIOWDITLE We. Gers y cites whee M feet.. 409 $7,890 684 $29,719 68 $13,627 
lnlarakivoodl Gy dce ta keweocacoe CLO ger eae tac nee inh uk task tame gee 152 13,308 104 16,140 
SOmwpOOG, CHieiccs ocogoanouk GO Presi Wah eRees cere Motes erates 12 900 185 11,719 
Hewn timber: Hardwood...... @Osc be 1 42 4 288 38 3,826 
Sawed timber: 
inicchiepine, lone-leatsa. 5 - 5s GOs oar 8,631 234,384 4,541 146,761 6,144 262,441 
Sonbwoods other: o¢a.c6.-- dopears 1,280 25,747 17 626 410 20,501 
Boards, planks, etc.: 
(COD SSIS. 3 sea gle ene doeenr 3,345 135,619 2,674 117,167 2,368 222,172 
Rite ey eta gars eae Sack cence eee do 411 11,365 9,280 316,608 12527 625,404 
(Gira 1S oe Rone ee ae ee Gomer. W773} 32,204 577 22,773 579 33,620 
OBIE a siclestiee tore teense a eee doseer 24 1,660 294 11,244 52 7,637 
arte es Wis se acaiat le. Ssvene ss aoe dopant 4,211 201,096 5,491 264,831 6,894 505,018 
Fine, yellow, pitch— 
Womealeats wy. lecieestyouess becuse do.... 168,753 4,873,939 154,843 5,431,858 253,959 13,935,321 
lO @attheaarewarciek umn See eye Goo 5c 2,406 67,919 1,709 55,449 2,603 129,313 
ANI Gitte tee cme ee eae GlOsc5H 2,860 71,588 B99) 116,744 4,656 334,984 
Ro plagher tress sce seas s 8 Goan c 724 24,7596 248 9,442 325 21,100 
ReGhinootal ser tas eet eee aes GOoeon 490 16,944 434 20,632 184 18,071 
SPECS a ats Boe E Ee es eee Glo 5 5 87 3,494 1,525 47,737 1,041 72,343 
SOpewoocsssotheras.,) sesso. doen 486 9,577 31 1,102 1,520 101,141 
HtamcwwiOO ds emcees cesta. 2 sacks dOsece 305 14,131 359 16,548 266 38,134 
Sinnimell@Ss — 2 cqessiarcio capes Gleeson ne neni M.. WAG ~- 714 454 2,968 236 10235 
MP torany etaertc eee Chee = atia)a.s Pain sys. 3)/5spcrls,ereeato) | Breceeere tele LD Si Gr pate aeNe sea LS layin seacbosatere 23,257 
ID GOMES ASIC LO Se eo. cicncdewi eect Ge cts) he eee TEES G rs ax renee ses BA OSB pee a arte ee seer 69,648 
Gre ITO OLS ree deveteete Sitscea ad. felons <iareueter, 1S eechereiés DOO MNG Le eiseerae GOV = Sea wen 1,248,954 
@oopesdsemm-nts-. ees Number. 1733074 221,431 227,939 261,130 168,395 279,102 
SIM@OLSy in CHU Sees doz... L0U:842 48,519 151,874 58,068 22,222 12,761 
SAE SIN stores Mepay sic ces ede Sele unre Se Omen os7225020 138,919 1,707,686 108,777 = 8,090,548 286,787 
iHlemabiine: “3 ied aipcie ctee Pere rene OIE oan Seer THUSES 0 Oren ae rah oe 78,307 Roa ecners 142,616 
OMS ep OLGUMN SS) rapa scl ne wie erste cS eiselenn, ” ecaieisiers AS TAS Oley edeeveserel els SSMS) = Tees cee D 82,941 
iRemlir@aGl (HESS Rabb oeooae nee number... 471,713 536,908 319,224 412,347 621,230 1,464,426 
MIRC frclll erway srcctiec strap te ae, ee ola: ANI ae 7p OA 702 9" cecond SOO) Saoaees $19,984,239 
Despite the business depression in Cuba in the latter part of 1920, due largely to 
the fall in the price of sugar, certain items in the lumber trade showed an increase 
in quantity over the record of the corresponding period in the preceding year. For in- 
stance, the shipments of railroad ties in December, 1920, amounted to 136,8C9 ties, 
valued at $296,523, compared with 58,941, worth $86,080, in December, 1919. On the 
other hand, exports to Cuba of yellow pitch pine (long leaf) in boards and planks 
were 5,471,000 feet, valued at $317,004, in December, 1920, while in December, 1919, 
they amounted to 20,500,000 feet, valued at $828,808. The exports for the entire year 
1920 show Cuba as the world’s largest purchaser of American yetiow pine boards, 
Argentina being second with less than half of Cuba’s receipts, and Mexico third with 
somewhat more than a third of Cuba’s record. 
The conditions affecting the market for American Jumber in various sections of 
Cuba, together with notes on the production, consumption, and exportation of native 
woods, appear in the following extracts from reports of American consuls: 
CIENFUEGOS IMPORTS PINE AND EXPORTS MAHOGANY. 
Consul Frank Bohr reports a good demand for lumber in Cienfuegos. One of the 
most important items of lumber imports, pitch pine, comes almost exclusively from 
the Gulf ports of the United States and from Jacksonville, Fla., though one cargo 
was recently received from the west coast. Comparatively little building was done 
