THE CUBA REVIEW 



15 



In former times a transaction of this 

 magnitude in Cuba would only be handled 

 by outside assistance through a loan of foreign 

 capital, and it is a credit to the energy, enter- 

 prise and organization of this native son to 

 even attempt to undertake to carry to a 

 successful conclusion a deal of such financial 

 and economical importance, and the vahie to 

 Cubans generally that the o\wiership of these 

 valuable properties did not pass into the hands 

 of a foreign concern will be reflected in the 

 years to come. 



This further acquisition of agricultural and 

 industrial property to the already many 

 enteiprises with which Sr. Rodriguez is 

 associated, gives him that well deserved 

 title of ''planter" to which honor the Cuban 

 aristocracv strive. 



Eugenio Agramonte y Sanchez, Speaker of 

 the Cuban House of Representatives, is 

 quoted in an interview given to a New York 

 paper as follows: 



"The sugar crop of Cuba, which brings 

 $170,000,000 under normal conditions, has 

 increased in value by $75,000,000 on account 

 of the war. Part of the extra profit is being 

 spent on ten new sugar mills of 100,000 bags 

 capacity. As an example of the prosperity 

 of Cuba, Lopez Rodriguez, a sugar planter, 

 recently paid Juan Pedro $3,500,000 in cash 

 for his plantation and mill. We may have 

 labor troubles next year on account of the 

 war profits. This 3'ear labor has been earn- 

 ing from $1.50 to $2.00 per day." 



SUGAR MACHINERY FOR CUBA 



Referring to contemplated unprovements 

 in many Cuban sugar mills within the near 

 future, a recent article published in Sugar 

 states that there are prospects of a new mill 

 being erected soon at San Juan y Martinez, 

 Pinar del Rio Province; also that an ^\merican 

 company has recently purchased the Mu-adero 

 farm, located at Bayamo, with the intention 

 of erecting a mill of 100,000 bags capacity 

 immediately; that the Perseverancia sugar 

 mill, with the exception of its crusher, is to 

 be completely equipped for the runnmg of 

 its machiner>' exclusively by electricity; that 

 the Reformia, San Lino, San Jose, and Maria 

 Victoria mills intend to install new boilers be- 

 fore next season ; that the San Ramon (Pinar 

 del Rio) mUl intends to erect a new steel ma- 

 chinery- house with a wing to be used for 

 warehouse jnu'poses, and whicli will have a 



capacity of 20,000 bags; that the Central 

 Juragua contemplates buying new centrifu- 

 gals and changing its evaporators, and that 

 more or less e.xtensive improvements will also 

 be made at the Camaguey, Santo Rito, and 

 Victoria mills. — Consul P. Merrill Griffith, 

 Santiago. 



AUSTRALIAN MARKET FOR SUGAR 



The Cuban Consul at Melbourne, Australia, 

 has sent iiiformation to the Cuban Govern- 

 ment in regard to the possibility of an Austral- 

 ian market for Cuban sugar. The annual con- 

 sumption of Australia is about 200,000 tons 

 of sugar. This year there will be a shortage 

 it is estimated of 70,000 tons owing to the 

 war conditions and to the lack of rain. The 

 govermnent of Australia proposes to abolish 

 the duty on sugar temporarily, and it is 

 thought Cuban sugars could compete via 

 the Panama Canal in this market, although 

 in previous years the sujiply has been bought 

 in Japan. 



NEW SUGAR MILL 



It is rei^orted that a new sugar central 

 is now bemg erected at San Juan, Moron, 

 Camaguey Province. It is understood that 

 the owners are the Caridad Sugar Company. 



SUGAR PRODUCTION OF CIENFUEGOS 

 DISTRICT 



The retm-ns of the centrals in this locality 

 indicate a sugar production in the Cienfuegos 

 district for the zafra (crop) of 1914-15 amount- 

 ing to 2,678,286 bags of 320 Spanish pounds 

 (about 325 avoirdupois pounds) net weight. 

 As the average value of a sack of sugar has 

 been $11 United States gold, this would make 

 the total value of the output $29,461,146. 



UNITED STATES SUGAR CONSUMPTION 



The consumption of sugar per capita in the 

 United States is estimated to be more than 

 ten times what it was a hundred years ago. 

 Duriiig the past five years, the consimiption 

 has averaged about 83 pounds per capita. A 

 hundred years ago the consumption of sugar 

 varied widely. It was usually, however, be- 

 tween four and ten pounds a year. Great 

 Britain consumed 92 pomids per capita more 

 than the United States in 1911, but France 

 and Germany used far less, the per capita 

 consumption being 39 and 42 pounds, re- 

 spectively.— Du/i's Review. 



