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THE CUBA REVIEW 



SUGAR ESTATE ACTIVITIES 



CENTRAL BOSTON 



Situated a few kilometers from the town 

 of Banes is the central "Boston" owned by the 

 United Fruit Company. The factory is 

 capable of grinding 350,000 arrobas of cane 

 daily. The last crop yielded 378,678 bags, 

 from 46,712,648 arrobas of cane. 



This year the yield is expected to reach 

 440,000 bags. 



Four hundred and thirty employees work 

 in the factory. The company owns 2,800 

 caballerias of land of which 850 caballerias 

 are planted in cane. 175 kilometers of rail- 

 roads traverse the cane fields and there are 

 800 cars, 16 locomotives and 8 gasoline auto- 

 mobiles in constant service. 



Daily the company runs a train over the 

 Dumois branch to the Antilla branch of the 

 Cuba Railroad for the public's benefit abso- 

 lutely gratis. 



On the company's property is an electric 

 plant, bakery, abattoir and other industries. 

 During the crop the number of workmen 

 aggregates 5,000. 



Central Lequeitio, in Santa Clara Province, 

 closed its season early this month with an 

 output of 150,000 bags. Had the weather 

 been favorable, a yield of 180,000 or 200,000 

 bags would have been secured. 



Central San Francisco, Santa Clara 

 Province, closed its season on April 15th 

 with 270,000 bags. 



A SUGAR CENTRAL DESTROYED 



The "01imi:)o" sugar factor}^, located in 

 Matanzas Province, and belonging to Manuel 

 Carreito, was completely destroyed bv fire 

 on April 23d. It was insured for $200,000. 

 The fire is believed to be of incendiary origin 

 as two previous attempts recently to burn 

 the factorv have been made without success. 

 The loss is estimated at $500,000. 



Three new centrals are projected for 

 Camaguey Province. There are no particu- 

 lars obtainable. 



NOTES OF THE CROP 



Up to April 1st, and according to figures 

 received by the Agrarian League of Havana, 

 the following Centrals have completed the 

 season's grinding: 



Central Nuestra Senora de Regla situated 

 in Manacas in the mimicipality of Cienfuegos 

 and owned by Sr. Felipe Silva and leased by 

 the Messrs. Castellvi & Co. This Central 

 commenced grinding on January 15th and 

 ended on March 25th, having manufactured 

 3,760 bags of sugar. The lessees of this 

 estate cultivated 54 caballerias of cane and 

 they expected to make 5,350 bags and to 

 close in the middle of this month but they 

 have been compelled to cease operation 

 owing to the lack of cane. 



Central San Miguel situated in Jamaica, 

 Guantanamo, owned by Messrs. Marimon, 

 Bosch & Co. The administrator of this 

 Ingenio is Emilio P. Salis. Grinding began 

 on the 19th of December and termintaed on 

 March 25th with an output of 18,705 bags. 

 This estate was compelled to suspend opera- 

 tion for ten days in February on account 

 of the attitude of the Colonos and the low 

 price of sugar, leaving uncut some 18,000,000 

 of arrobas of cane. 



Ingenio Carolina in Palmira, owned by 

 E.staban Cacicedo. The administrator is 



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