THE CUBA REVIEW 



23 



The Jucaro and Moron Co. 



On the petition of the Pratt Engineer- 

 ing and Machine Company of Atlanta, 

 Chauncey G. Parker, of Newark, N. J., 

 has been appointed temporary receiver 

 of the Jucaro and Moron Sugar and 

 Land Company of Cuba. 



The Jucaro and Moron Sugar and 

 Land Company is one of the largest con- 

 cerns of its kind in Cuba and owns 50,000 

 acres of sugar land, in addition to a 

 sugar mill of 100,000 sacks capacity and 

 a railroad running from Jucaro, on the 

 south coast of Cuba, to San Fernando, 

 on the north coast. 



The Pratt Engineering and Machine 

 Company built a large order of sugar 

 machinery for the Cuban concern and 

 acquired in this connection $200,000 in 

 bonds of the company. The petition for 

 a receiver was filed because of the Cuban 

 company defaulting in the interest pay- 

 ment. 



For some time the Cuban company has 

 been in financial difiiculties, notwith- 

 standing the valuable property which it 

 owns, and it is said this financial diffi- 

 culty has been caused by bad manage- 

 ment rather than by any inability of the 

 company to earn rhoney. 



The Jucaro and Moron Sugar and 

 Land Company has a capital stock of 

 $2,000,000 and an issue of $2,000,000 of 

 bonds outstanding and is incorporated 

 under the laws of New Jersey. For this 

 reason the litigation was commenced in 

 the court of chancery of that state. 



The property of the company is con- 

 sidered very valuable and it is declared 

 that under the proper management the 

 company can be operated very profitably. 

 — Atlanta (Ga.) Georgian, Jan. 25. 



Demand for Cuban Beeswax. 



An American consul officer in Russia 

 reports that a large importing house in 

 his district is anxious to arrange with 

 American dealers for shipments of, 

 Cuban beeswax, believing it is possible 

 to make more satisfactory terms with 

 them than with the European commis- 

 sion houses from which purchases have 

 been made. The demand for beeswax 

 is very great, owing to the requirements 

 of the church for candles, which cannot 

 be manufactured from any other mate- 

 rial.— U. S. Consular Reports. 



Havana's Custom House Collections. 



Customs collections for the month of 

 January amounted to $1,432,391.01, as 

 against $1,279,239.21 in 1908. 



Building and Mail-Order Business. 



How the trade in mail orders Ijctween 

 France and Cuba has grown since the 

 Franco-Cuban parcels post convention 

 of 1907 is shown in a report from Ha- 

 vana recently published in a Bordeaux 

 periodical. 



From February, 1907, to May, 1908, 

 about 12,000 parcels, with a value of 

 $482,500, arrived by mail from France 

 and since then the business has grown 

 to still larger dimensions, especially in 

 ladies' fine underwear and dress goods. 

 The single difficulty which prevents an 

 enormous mail-order business between 

 the two countries is that there is no 

 understanding regarding an international 

 money-order system. U. S. Consul Moe. 

 at Bordeaux, reviewing the report, says: 



"With the questions of rapid trans- 

 portation, customs modifications, and 

 singularly excellent banking facilities in 

 operation between the United States and 

 Cuba, the possibilities of a thriving mail- 

 order business with the latter country is 

 not to be disregarded, especially as the 

 United States produces similar and 

 equally good articles as France sends 

 over to Cuba." 



President Taft on Annexation. 



At a banquet in Washington, D. C, in 

 a good-natured discussion between Pres- 

 ident Taft and Senator Tillman of 

 South Carolina, the former said as fol- 

 lows: "The Senator says we are going 

 to annex Cuba. Well, I don't think so. 

 He thinks that, because Cuba has a race 

 question, we ha^-e got to mix their race 

 question with our race question, and have 

 a sort of result, with sulphur rising from 

 it that is going to consume the world. 

 I don't believe that. 



Cocoanut Oil. 



Oil from cocoanuts is extracted in 

 Mexico by the following method, which 

 is not modern: 



"After the nut is ready for the mar- 

 ket, the meat of the nut is toasted and 

 then ground between millstones turned 

 by horsepower. Then it is pressed or 

 thrown into kettles filled with hot water 

 and the oil skimmed off the top." 



A money order office has been estab- 

 lished at the post office at Campechuela, 

 Oriente Province. 



General Weyler's forthcoming book 

 will make many important revelations 

 concerning the Spanish policy in Cuba. 



