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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



CUBAN TOBACCO PRODUCTION STATISTICS. 



Production. Exportation and Consumption for the Six Years Ending with 1909. 



Production. 



Year. Cigars. Value. 



1904 401,661,082 $21,515,570 



1903 441.544,496 23,337,492 



1906 452.865,592 24,533,071 



1907 364.400,997 22,010,845 



1908 337,012,184 18,942,483 



1909 326,994.927 19,028,430 



Year. Cigarettes. Value. 



1904 226,891,377 $4,630,111 



1905 212,737,819 4,313,901 



1906 233,603,891 4,750,294 



1907 227.297,494 5,087,414 



1908 212.809.914 4,753,238 



1909 220,516,900 4,916,907 



Exportation Figures. 



Year. Cigars. \'alue. 



1904 217,645,000 $14,147,000 



1905 227,029,000 14.757,000 



1906 256,738,000 16,688,000 



1907 186,429,000 13,112,000 



1908 188,847,0(K) 12,275,000 



1909 181,295,900 12,472,000 



Year. Cigarettes. Value. 



1904 18,457,000 $461,421,000 



1905 11,829,000 295,726,000 



1906 15,643.000 391,081,000 



1907 16,505,000 449.928,000 



1908 10,203,000 2f^^,S83,000 



1909 10,574,000 298,161,000 



Consumption. 



Year. Cigars. 



1904 184,216,000 $7,368,640 



1905 214,516.000 8,580,639 



1906 196,127,000 7,845,100 



1907 177,972,000 8,898,619 



1908 148,165,000 6,667,443 



1909 145,700,000 6,556,519 



Value. Year. Cigarettes. 



1904 208,434,000 .... 



1905 200,909,000 .... 



1906 217,961,100 .... 



1907 210,794,000 .... 



1908 202,607,000 .... 



1909 209,943,000 .... 

 — El Tabaco, 



Origin of Cigar Bands. 



I asked a local cigar dealer what tobacco 

 company it was that first originated the idea 

 of using bands on cigars for advertising 

 purposes, says "Observer" in the Boston 

 Post. The dealer laughed at my ignorance. 

 "Cigar bands," said he, "were not originally 

 used for advertising. Long ago, when it 

 was common for Cuban and Spanish tnaid- 

 ens to smoke cigars, just as they now smoke 

 cigarettes, the manufacturer.^; of the smaller 

 cigars started placing bands of manilla 

 paper around their products for the ladies' 

 benefit. These bands the women removed 

 and placed on their little fingers so that they 

 could flick the ash off the cigar without 

 soiling or burning themselves. It was many 

 years before the dealers thought of placing 

 rings of gaudily-colored paper in the place 

 of these sober and purely utilitarian bands; 

 but as soon as one man was bright 

 enough to do it. all the others immediate- 

 ly followed suit. But there are very few 

 persons who know how the bands 

 originated." 



Annexation and Cuba's Cigar Industry. 



.\ partner in one of Tampa's old es- 

 tablished and most successful clear Ha- 

 vana tobacco houses, says in Tobacco, of 



Value. 

 $4,168,690 

 4,018,174 

 3,359,212 

 4,637,476 

 4,457,354 

 4,618,746 



Havana. 



New York, regarding the annexation of 

 Cuba, that should Cuba become a part 

 of the United States, the question would 

 arise as to whether the cigar industry in 

 Tampa should be transferred to Havana, 

 or whether the industry in Havana should 

 be brought to the United States and 

 consolidated with the industry in Tampa. 



He thinks the various European and 

 South Ainerican countries which have so 

 long been good customers of Havana's 

 leading cigar factories are gradually rais- 

 ing tariff barriers against the Cuban 

 product, which will mean steadily de- 

 creasing shipments of cigars from Ha- 

 vana during the next five or ten years. 



Even should the TTnited States grant 

 to Cuba a reduction of the present tariff 

 duty — something thdt is by no means 

 certain — the increased shipments to this 

 country would l.y no means fully offset 

 the losses ii. the shipments to other 

 countries. 



Tn the early nineties Cuban wrapper 

 tobacco was frequently valued below 

 Sumatra wrapper: in the five years end- 

 ing 1908 the import price of Cuban was 

 75 per cent, higher. — Charleston (S. C.) 

 News-Courier. 



