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embargo, el presente esta'do de cosas justifica por modo absokito la subida ya ocurrida 

 y cnalquier anmento en lo precios que ocurriera mas tarde. 



El azucar refinado sigue naturalmente el curso de los mascabados, manteniendose 

 a unos go cents, en las lOO libras sobre el precio de estos liltimos. Los traficantes y 

 los bodegueros tienen llenos sus almacenes y tiendas, habiendo tomado todos los contratos 

 de 30 dias que ban podido obtener. Considerando que los principales consumidores 

 estan abastecidos para miuchos meses, no es probable que haya ningun alza inmediata 

 que subsista por la 'demanda por parte de dichos consumidores. El azucar aleman 

 granukdo se puede importar al costo de 30 centavos en las 100 libras menos que el 

 americano, pero no parece haber nadie interesado en traer ese azucar a este pais en 

 grandes cantidades. 



Sugar Crop Estimates. 



As the season draws to a close, those who 

 estimated the crop at 800,000 tons and those 

 who predicted 1,165,000 tons now perceive 



"pVERY Railway Manager, Engineer, 

 -L ' Wharf Owner, Sugar Planter, Con- 

 tractor or other intelligent Citizen, 

 knows that WOOD if unpreserved, ROTS, 

 especially in tropical climates, and that the 

 Teredo Navalis and the Limnoria will 

 honeycomb piles in salt water in two years. 

 The only remedy is thorough 



CREOSOTING 



The U.S. Bureau of Forestry says : "Weil Creosoted 

 Wood Will Last Indefinitely." 



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Railroad and Street Railway Ties, Bridge 



Piling and Timbers, Derrick and Cane 



Hoist Timbers, Telephone and Tele= 



graph Poles and Cross Arms, 



Posts of All Kinds. 



Timbers Framed to Blue Print 



All of the above preserved against rot, and 

 the attack of the Teredo and Limnoria. 



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We Ship by Steamer or Schooner, Large or Small Orders 



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 GiTLKPORX, miss. 



their error. "El Advisador Comercial" 

 says ; 



"It is necessary then to make a new cal- 

 culation, adjusted to conditions realized now 

 to exist. We do not believe the harvest will 

 reach the highest amount calculated, but 

 we estimate the crop at 1,000,000 tons, tak- 

 ing as our basis the data obtainable up to 

 the present week." 



"La Publicidad," of Santa Clara, says : 

 "We knew that the cane cut and collected 

 was much less than that- of the former two 

 years, but owing to the increased amount 

 of sugar obtained from the cane this year, 

 due to new processes and better quality of 

 cane, we were able to conceive the hope 

 that one adverse circumstance would be 

 recompensed by another favorable. But 

 s'uch has not been the result. From one to 

 two per cent, more of sugar is still being 

 taken from the cane than in 1907, and yet, 

 as we said before, the oroduction is at least 

 25 per cent, less in the total. 



U. S. Consul General Rodgers's report, 

 in Havana, made March 13, on the sugar 

 output, says that 950,000 tons will represent 

 the possible maximum, and that 900,000 tons 

 is not too low an estimate. The general 

 opinion, he says, is "that 1908 will be a 

 bad business year and that 1909 may be 

 worse." 



Elegant Farms 



of from ten to forty acres, for sale along the line 

 of the new Oalzada, Pinar del Rio Province. 

 Write for information. San Jose Tropical Product 

 Company, 1747 Railway Exchange Bldg., Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



PLANTATION RAILl^AYS 



Special Cars for special purposes — -2 to 30 tons capacity. 

 Portable track that can be laid by two men anywhere. 

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