32 T H E C U B A E E V I E W 



The Sugar Industry 



Final Outturn of Cuban Crop 



The closing of Central Santa Lucia, in Oriente province, completing the Cuban 

 sugar campaign of 1922-23 was announced in dispatches received in New York on 

 September 5. Santa Lucia's production was 155,401 bags, closely approximating the 

 forecast made some weeks prior to the termination of grinding. This output falls short 

 by roundly 145,000 bags of H. A. Himely's pre-season estimate of 300,000 bags and is 

 only a little more than half of Santa Lucia's 1921-22 production of 307,069 bags. 



Crop Makes 3,600,000-Ton Mark 



With returns now in hand from all of the mills, the final figures for the Cuban 

 crop show a total outturn barely over the 3.600,000-ton mark and approximating the 

 figures named in revised estimates published two months ago. According to a compilation 

 of the returns by mills made by Facts About Sugar, the production of the 182 mills 

 grinding during the past campaign was 25.219,449 bags, or 3,602,778 long tons, or 

 3,500,000 bags less than Himely's original crop estimate of 28,720,000 bags, and 

 2,744,000 bags less than the 1921-22 crop. 



The following table gives by provinces the figures of production and estimate for 

 1922-23 and production for 1921-22, in bags: 



1922-23 . 1921-22 ^ 



Himely 



Province Mills Outturn estimate Mills Outturn 



Pinar del Rio 10 839,899a 945,000 9 840,843 



Havana 17 1,777,708 2,037,000 18 2,148,134? 



Matanzas 29 3,050,215 3,491,000 31 3,477,282/ 



Santa Clara 57 5,116,8136 5,690,000 59 5,814,962g 



Camaguey 27 7,671,172 8,020,000 27 6,560,429 



Oriente 42 6,763,642f 8,537,000c^ 44 9,131,674/i 



Total 182 25,219,449 28,720,000 188 27,973,324 



Total, tons 3,602,778 4.102,857 3,996,189 



a Includes production of 34,404 bags by mill not grinding in 1921-22. 



b Includes production of 79,143 bags by two mills not grinding in 1921-22. 



c Includes production of 79,470 bags b}' two mills not grinding in 1921-22. 



d Includes estimate of 7,000 bags for mill which did not grind. 



e Includes 21,966 bags made by mill not grinding in 1922-23. 



/ Includes 307,905 bags made by two mills closed in 1922-23. 



g Includes 319,815 bags made by four mills closed in 1922-23. 



h Includes 252,046 bags made by four mills closed in 1922-23. 



The foregoing figure of 3,602,778 tons for the total crop agrees closely with those 

 announced by the two leading Cuban statistical authorities, of whom H. A. Himely gives 

 the total as 3,601,605 tons and Guma-Mejer place it at 3,602,910 tons. 



Decrease Greatest in Oriente 



The decrease in output as compared with the original estimate is 12.18 per cent, 

 and as compared with the 1921-22 crop is 9.84 per cent, according to the final returns. 

 By provinces a decrease in comparison with 1921-22 of 25.93 per cent is shown in 

 Oriente, 11.95 per cent in Santa Clara, 12.28 per cent in Matanzas, and 17.25 per cent 

 in Havana, while in Pinar del Rio production was practically the same for the two 

 crops, and in Cam.aguey the 1922-23 outturn recorded an increase of 14.47 per cent. 



The largest production by an individual mill in 1922-23 was again made by Central 

 Delicias of Oriente province, but the outturn of 777,080 bags was far short of the 

 record-breaking 1921-22 crop of 1,047,643 bags. — Facts About Sugar. 



