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CUBA'S PITCH PINE IMPORTS 



(From the Gulf Coast Record) 



Cuban business is'smaller than expected. 

 October shipments running about 40% less 

 than in October, 1913, with few commitments 

 for later dehvery. Havana movement is bet- 

 ter maintained than that to other ports of the 

 island. — Week of November 14th. 



A little business is moving for Cuba, and 

 further commitments are made from week to 

 week, but trade is of a disappointingly small 

 extent, and improvement is slow in coming. 



Cuban shipment of the week was larger 

 than has lately been the case, the total being 

 about 2,300,000 feet.— Week of November 

 21st. 



With only one month more to go, 1914 ex- 

 port of pine lumber fi'om Gulf ports to Cuba 

 reaches a total of 73,915,342 feet, which 

 makes a very unsatisfactory comparison with 

 the 142,000,000 feet recorded for the full 

 twelve months in 1913. A considerable de- 

 crease was expected, as 1913 figiu-es were 

 notably the largest in the history of the trade, 

 while the commencement of this year found 

 general business in Cuba much depressed, 

 chiefly because of low prices for its large crop 

 of sugar. Actual results have, however, 

 disappointment to those engaged in tlais traf- 

 fic, and the year's total, when completed may 

 be the smallest in a decade. In 1909 ninety- 

 one million, and in 1908 eighty-seven million 

 feet of pine lumber went to Cuba from the 

 Gulf. 



Havana, which ordinarily accounts for 

 about 40 per cent of the lumber destined to 

 the island maintains the same proportions in 

 the lessened movement. Every port in Cuba 

 shows decline in receipts, the quantity going 

 to Matanzas, Puerto Padre, Nipe, Sagua and 

 Santiago being particularly deficient, while 

 Cardenas, Caibarien, Cienfuegos and Man- 

 zaniUo approach more nearly to the record 

 of former seasons. The war has undoubtedly 

 exerted a deterrent effect upon Cuba pur- 

 chases, such benefit as has resulted for island 

 industries being more than counter-balanced 

 so farinas immediate results are concerned, by 

 the tightness of money and disorganization 

 of trade relations. 



WHAT ENGLAND'S PROHIBITION MEANS 



Advices from Cuba indicate an inquiry as 

 having been made of the English Government 

 as to the prohibition of the importation of 

 Cuban sugars. Reports state tliat the im- 

 portation of Muscovado sugars is not inter- 

 dicted. The term Muscovado is lo sing its 

 definiteness, and while we presume that in 

 the beginning it meant brown, or darker col- 

 ored sugars, in distinction from white or 

 clayed sugars, the inauguration of vacuum 

 pan boihng in Cuba and the production of 

 sugars with large crystals finally did away 

 with the old open trainboiling by which the 

 common brown sugars of commerce were 

 made, and now practically no sugars are 

 made in the western world in sugai- houses of 

 any reasonable capacity without being made 

 by the vacuum pan process, which produces 

 the large crystals with which we are so famil- 

 iar, whether those crystals are brown or lemon 

 colored, or pure white. 



If the report fi'om Cuba and from England 

 that the interdiction of imports of sugar does 

 not exclude Cuban brown sugars, which we 

 are led to believe is the only possible con- 

 struction that can be put upon the report, it 

 would show that the English Government is 

 endeavoring to protect its own sugar refiners 

 by inviting 96 test sugars of a brownish color 

 to come to England and to there be refined, 

 thus inaugurating for itself in England a 

 protective exclusion similar to the Dutch 

 standard, which has been the bulwai-k of the 

 sugar refining industry for so many years, 

 prohibiting as it did the importation of all 

 plantation crystals because of their fine color, 

 usually above No. 16 Dutch standard. 



In Louisiana, and we believe also in Cuba, 

 there has benn almost an entire discontinu- 

 ance of the manufactm-e of the old open train, 

 or open kettle method of sugar manufacture, 

 and hence we are led to infer that if any such 

 order had been promulgated, as we have 

 herinabove referred to, that is that Muscovado 

 sugars from Cuba may be imported into Eng- 

 land, the order must apply to sugars that 

 have not been refined and would admit every- 

 thing from the beautiful Demarara crystals 

 down to the commoner or lower grade second 

 and third boilings. — Louisiana Planter. 



