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THE CUBA REVIEW 



SUGAR ESTATE ACTIVITIES 



SAETIA SUGAR COMPANY 



The work commenced on a raili'oad from 

 Preston to Nipe Bay, which was to carry 

 the products of the Saetia Sugar Company 

 to the Preston mill, will not extend into the 

 lands of the former company. 



The line will not be required, as it is under- 

 stood that the Saetia Sugar Company will 

 erect a new factory on the lands and grind 

 their own cane, instead of grinding it at the 

 Preston factory. 



MORE SUGAR FACTORIES 



A new factory is projected in Oriente 

 Province, according to Dr. Simpson, a director 

 in the Havana sugar school, on the lands near 

 the Cauto River. 



The production of this new mill is esti- 

 mated to be from 90,000 to 130,000 bags. 



Still another factory, the "Anita," is 

 projected for the municipal termino of 

 Victoria de las Tunas Oriente Province by 

 Messrs. Gonzalez and Gomez, merchants in 

 that section. The machinery will be of the 

 most modern character. 



MAKING PAPER AT PRESTON 



That the manufacture of paper from sugar 

 cane bagasse is a success to the point that 

 Cuba within a few years will not be forced 

 to import the product, is the report made 

 to the Department of Agriculture, Com- 

 merce and Labor by Engineer Jimenez 

 Alfonso, who has returned from Oriente and 

 Camaguey after visiting the mills there for 

 statistical purposes. 



Sr. Jimenez Alfonso bases his report on 

 the study he made while visiting the paper 



plant established at the Preston, Oriente, 

 where the industry was inaugurated last 

 April on a small scale, the factory now 

 producing about a ton of excellent wrapping 

 paper per day. The machinery employed 

 at the mill for the purpose is capable of 

 producing from three to four tons per day, 

 but this is not produced owing to the fact 

 that not enough expert employees have been 

 secured. Each ton of bagasse produces 

 half a ton of paper. 



The Preston mill has now ordered new 

 machinery for the manufacture of fine 

 paper, such as is used in writing, book 

 making, etc., also new machinery for the 

 making of crepe paper. 



According to Sr. AKonso, the Cuban 

 bagasse is very far superior to that of Louis- 

 iana where efforts to make paper out of it 

 failed. There they have only been able to 

 make cardboard because the fibre required 

 too long in ripening. 



The mills for the manufacture of paper 

 in each province will follow the experiments 

 at Preston, is the opinion of Sr. Jimenez 

 Alfonso, who has reports of several capitalists 

 who are getting ready to enter into the 

 business. 



STILL ANOTHER SUGAR FACTORY 



A syndicate of Cubans, headed by Sr. 

 Echevarria and other wealthy Cubans, have 

 formed a company to erect a sugar mill at 

 Dos Caminos, Oriente Province, and an- 

 nouncement is made that the factory will 

 be ready for grinding by the end of 1914. 



It is now nearing completion. Its capacity 

 is stated to be 70,000 bags. It is called the 

 Central "Borgita" and the builder is Rablo 

 Bontanger. 



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