THE CUBA REVIEW 



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THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



PROPOSED SUGAR MILLS 



Central "Canarias" — This mill will be 

 erected near "San German," Oriente Prov- 

 ince. The originators of the new enterprise 

 are Mr. Dominguez and Mr. J. Perez Her- 

 nandez, who will be General Manager. 



Central "Van Home" — This new Central 

 which will be built by the Cuba Railroad 

 Company will also be located near "San Ger- 

 man," Oriente Province. 



Alto Cedro Sugar Company — This mill will 

 be built near "Marcane," a station of the 

 Cuba Railroad Company, in the Oriente 

 PrOAdnce. It is proposed to have the Central 

 in readiness for grinding the coming year. 

 It is understood that the West India Sugar 

 Finance Company are interested in this 

 enterprise. 



Baragua Sugar Com-pany — Mr. Jules God- 

 chaux of New Orleans will build a sugar mill 

 at "Colorado," near Ciego de Avila. The 

 machinery from a Louisiana mill will be used 

 for such purpose. 



Compahia Azucarera Central "Occidente" — 

 The owners of Central "Patria" will soon 

 build a new mill near Qulvican, Havana 

 Province. Mr. M. Galdo is in charge of the 

 construction works and will probably be the 

 Administrator. 



JOVELLANOS 



It is said that Mr. Pedro Arenal, who 

 owned Central "Socorro," contemplates 

 building a new mill near Jovellanos, Province 

 of Matanzas. Nothing definite is known re- 

 garding this new project. 



SUGAR PRICES 



Cuban sugar men fully expect raw sugar to 

 be selling in Cuba next December, when the 

 crops come in, at from 6 to 7 cents a pound, 

 according to Juan Escarra, partner of Manuel 

 Rionda, in the great electrical sugar mill 

 that has just been put up in the Province 

 of Camaguey. This mill, according to Mr. 

 Escarra, who has arrived at Walcott with 

 his family to spend the Summer in the United 

 States, can make profit with sugar at 2 cents 

 a pound. 



"There has been much misapprehension 

 about Camaguey Province being unadaptable 

 to big sugar production," said Mr. Escarra 



yesterday. "Owing to the fact that water 

 was scarce, no attention was paid to it by 

 the transportation interests. Latelv. how- 

 ever, six big sugar mills, of the latest 

 type, have been put up, the railwaj'-s have 

 built 120 miles of tracks, a new road is about 

 to be built from Camaguey City to Santa 

 Cruz, on the southern coast, and this is going 

 to give a tremendous impetus to develop- 

 ment which has been under way in the last 

 few years. Sugar planters have been flocking 

 into the province, and they have been success- 

 ful. Now everybody in the province has 

 money, and the stories of some of the planters 

 would read like incredible romances. I 

 have no doubt that in a very few years 

 Camaguey will have jumped ahead of Santa 

 Clara. There are four electrical mUls on 

 the island, and at our EUa mill we handle 

 sugar entirely by electricity from the time it 

 comes in on the truck untU it leaves in the 

 bag. 



"You may get some idea how people have 

 been making money out of sugar by a little 

 division. We got $300,000,000 for our last 

 crop. We owed $85,000,000. Subtract and 

 divide by our 3,000,000 population. Why 

 men who cannot read and write are making 

 money hand over fist. I happen to recall 

 o.ne who could not write his own name. He 

 had never been to a town^ He asked me not 

 long ago to take him to a city and show him 

 how to put his money in a bank. I had to 

 sign his name for him; he is making his mark. 

 He deposited $35,000."— A^.F. Times, June 12. 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



The Westinghouse Electric Export Com- 

 pany, of East Pittsburgh, Pa., has pubHshed 

 a pamphlet dealing with the electrification of 

 cane sugar mills. This pamphlet is published 

 in English and also in Spanish, and copies 

 may be obtained by addressing — Mr. H. F. 

 Griffith, Assistant Manager, "\A^estinghouse 

 Electric Export Company, East Pittsburgh, 

 Pa. 



TEMPORARY FREE ADMISSION OF SUGAR 

 IN ARGENTINA 



An executive decree exempts from duty 

 until October 1, 1916, sugar (raw or refined), 

 not exceeding 30,000 tons. — American Em- 

 bassy, Buenos Aires, 



