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THE CUBA REVIEW 



THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY 



STOCKS OF LEAF TOBACCO AT THE PORT OF HAVANA 



Bales 



Stock on hand upon January 1, 1914 89,449 



Receipts by rail and water from January 1 to December 31, 1914 489,036 



Recepts in bundles and packed at Havana, of Semi Vuelta 500 



Receipts of Partido, by carts, in bales and bundles packed here 65,150 



Total stocks 644,135 



Less sales reported at Havana during the j^ear 1914 231,334 



Less sales in the oountrv direct, estimated 212,801 — ■ 444,135 



Stock on hand December 31, 1914, in first hands 200,000 



ESTIMATED CROP OF LEAF TOBACCO OF THE YEAR 1914, OF THE 



ISLAND OF CUBA 



Vuelta Semi- Par- Reme- Total 



1914 Abajo. Vuelta. tido. dios. Oriente. Bales. 



Receipts at Havana, January 1 to 



December 31 . 208,417 38,592 79,431 219,752 8,494 554,686 



To arrive from the countrv still, 



estimated 40,000 2,000 15,000 50,000 10,000 117,000 



Consumption bv manufacturers in 



the country. : 25,000 20,000 45,000 



248,417 40,592 94,431 294,752 38,494 716,686 

 Less received of the 1913 crop up 



to April 30, 1914 9,186 1,092 511 7,336 864 18,989 



239,231 39,500 93,920 287,416 37,630 697,697 



HAVANA SHIPPED ^NEARLY 60,000,000 

 CIGARS [LESS 



An illustration of how hard the war hit 

 Havana's industry of cigar-making may be 

 seen in the following tables, which show a de- 

 crease of nearly 60,000,000 cigars this year 

 over last. Havana cigars are nearly all 

 shipped abroad, large quantities of them to 

 Germany and Austria, and when the war 

 broke out these shipments ceased. Business 

 has been bad up to the breakuig out of the war, 

 but went aU to pieces then as the figures, 

 taken from the Tobacco Leaf, show. 



Tampa's trade was not so hard hit, this city 

 having manufactured about 260,000,000 in 

 1914 against 284,000,000 in 1913. The 

 Havana figures follow: 



Havana, Jan. 15. — The loss of business of 

 our cigar industry last year is equivalent to 

 one quarter of the total quantity of cigars ex- 

 ported in 1913. In other words, we shipped 

 59,283,212 cigars less in 1914 than in the pre- 

 vious year. So the readers of the Tobacco 

 Leaf can see in what months the greatest 

 losses occurred, I append here^ndth the cigar 

 shipments by months for the last two years: 

 1913 1914 



Cigars Cigars 



January 13,161,385 11,507,444 



February 14,431,875 13,487,995 



March 13,331,495 12,678,128 



April 18,431,837 16,535,281 



May 13,336,714 11,994,798 



June 12,906,444 10,460,839 



July 18,199,838 



August 14,679,147 



September 13,761,421 



October 20,390,700 



November 14,338,921 



December 18,264,553 



10,534,032 

 5,017,571 

 6,099,946 

 8,903,755 

 8,523,410 

 8,205,919 



183,2)34,330 123,951,118 

 Since the first of this year the factories have 

 been putting on a little more steam than 

 they had expected to. They expected to 

 have to close down entirely, but, fortunately 

 for them, some orders have been coming in 

 steadily, although small, and they have been 

 able to keep their shops open. To-day they 

 continue to live on hopes for the future. — 

 Tampa Daily Times. 



PROTECTING CUBAN CIGARS 



Senor Vidal Caro, accompanied by Sub- 

 Secretary of State Patterson, recently paid a 

 visit to the President for the purpose of show- 

 ing him an invention for the stamping of 

 cigars in order to avoid the selling of inferior 

 cigars abroad under the guise of some fine 

 Havana brand. Although the full details of 

 this machine have not been explained it is said 

 to render any falsification quite impossible. 



The imports of cigars in British South 

 Africa for the year 1913 from Cuba amounted 

 to $106,357. 



