THE CUBA REVIEW 



31 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



Grinding Dried Cane 



Dr. Gaston A. Cuadrado, the well known 

 sugar expert and chemist of the Lonja del 

 Comercio, commenting on the alarm which 

 has been created here concerning the ex- 

 portation by the Preston mill in Oriente 

 of the sugar cane properly prepared to be 

 ground in the United States, says that such 

 a movement would not injure the Cuban 

 agriculture, Init on the contrary prove help- 

 ful, because he would sell two products, 

 the juice and the bagasse, where now he 

 only sells the juice. He would also have 

 two markets in competition, the exporter 

 of the cane and the manufacturer. Dr. 

 Cuadrado believes also that if the exporta- 

 tion of dried cane to the United States 

 should prosper, in less than four years 

 the production of cane would amount to 

 40,000,000 tons, which would result in the 

 immediate ruin of the Louisiana and Texas 

 growers, and perhaps with the death of the 

 beet sugar industry. 



Chaparra's Output 531,049 Bags 



Cable advices in July to the Cuban-Amer- 

 ican Sugar Co., offices in New York, re- 

 ported that its Chaparra factory has closed 

 its crop with an output of 531,049 bags of 

 sugar of about 325 pounds each, and of 

 96 degrees test, or a total production of 

 over 86,000 tons. The output exceeds the 

 estimate by over 40,000 bags. Chaparra's 

 production last year was 482,428 bags, mak- 

 ing a world record at that time, so far 

 as quantity produced in a single sugar fac- 

 tory is concerned. 



The total output of the Cuban-American 

 Sugar Co. during this season in Cuba 

 amounts to 1,022,000 bags, or 22,000 bags 

 in excess of their estimate. 



Another Sugar Mill 



The Dumois Nipe Company is planning 

 the erection of an immense sugar mill on 

 Nipe Bay. This company is the successor 

 to the Dumois Brothers who have been do- 

 ing business in that section of the island 

 for years, where they have engaged in the 

 extensive ccltivation of bananas. 



They expect, when their plans are fully 

 matured, to build piers, waterworks, elec- 

 tric lights and a railroad. Nothing is to be 

 left undone which will tend to make theirs 

 one of the most up-to-date properties on 

 the island. Vessel drawing 36 feet will 

 be able to tie up to their pier, which will be 

 1,370 feet long and 32 feet wide. 



Electric's New Head 



It is principally as an importer and manu- 

 facturer of Cuban sugars that Edwin F. 

 Atkins, who on July 29th was elevated to 

 the presidency of the Westinghouse Elec- 

 tric and Manufacturing Company, is known 

 m his home city of Boston. He was presi- 

 dent of the Bay State Sugar Refinery Com- 

 pany in 1878-88, and a partner in E. Atkins 

 & Co., importers of sugars, commission 

 merchants and bankers, since 1874. He was 

 also vice-president and director of the Un- 

 ion Pacific Railway system from 1889 to 

 1895 ; president Aetna Mills, Soledad Sugar 

 Company, Cuba, Trinidad Sugar Company, 

 Boston Wharf Company, and director of 

 the American Trust Company, Eliot Na- 

 tional Bank, West End Street Railway, and 

 the Guarantee Company of North America. 

 He is a director in the American Sugar 

 Company. 



Increased Sugar Production 



The Boston sugar mill ended the season 

 July 23d with a total output of 450,000 bags 

 of 13 arrobas each, or 20,000 more bags 

 than the estimate made at the beginning of 

 the season, and 76,481 more bags than were 

 produced last year. 



The Boston is the second largest sugar 

 mill in the world, coming close to the co- 

 lossal Chaparra, and Boston's output is also 

 a world record, for outside of the Chaparra 

 no single mill in the world produces that 

 tremendous output of sugar. 



The Boston, which is owned by the Unit- 

 ed Fruit Company under the management 

 of Harold Harty, produced in 1906, 173,000 

 bags; in 1907 it jumped up suddenly to 

 282,289 bags; in 1908 the output was low- 

 ered again to 212,151, to jump up to 373,519 

 in 1909. — Havana Post. 



Sugar Bags 



About 90 per cent of all the bags used as 

 containers of Cuban sugar are manufac- 

 tured in six factories in Calcutta, India ; 

 the remaining 10 per cent are manufactured 

 in Scotland at Dundee. The bags are uni- 

 form in size and weight and are commer- 

 cially known as Cuban sugar bags, having 

 an average capacity of 325 pounds. 



On July 29th, the sugar estate of Santa 

 Lucia in Oriente province had recorded an 

 output of 150,000 bags the estimated crop. 

 There was enough cane available at that 

 time for eight weeks' grindmg. Last year 

 the output was 138,000 bags ; in 1908, 

 92,040; in ]907, 86,600, and in 1906, 65,872. 



