Title: The Cuba review
Identifier: cubareview15muns (find matches)
Year: 1907-1931 (1900s)
Authors: Munson Steamship Line
Subjects: Cuba -- Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Munson Steamship Line
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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THE CUBA R K V I E \\ 25
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Residence, Stewart Sugar Estate. SUGAR INDUSTRY OF CUBA By Consul General Henry H. Moraan, Habani. The total number of sugar mills in Cuba during the year 1916-17 was 201. Of this number 8 are in the Province of Pinar del Rio 21, in the Province of Habana, 40 in the Province of .Matanzas, 71 in the Province of Santa (Jlara, 19 in the Province of Camaguey, and 42 in the Province of Oriente. Cf the total, 68 are owned and operated by citizens of the United States. The 1916-17 crop w^ill jaeld about 2,800,000 tons. The production of sugar in the island of Cuba has increased diu-ing the past seven years, as follows: 1911, 1,480,217 tons; 1912, 1,893,687 tons; 1913, 2,429,240 tons; 1914, 2,596,567 tons; and 1916, 3,006,625 tons. The 1917 crop was estimated at 3,500,000 tons, but not more than 2,800,000 tons will be produced under favorable weather and other concUtions, the decrease being due to the de- struction of cane by the revolutionists and the inability of the mills to grind while disturbances lasted. The estimate for 1917 of 3,500,000 tons would have been exceeded but for the dis- turbances. The losses of cane by fire from August, 1916, to May, 1917, according to the Kabana estimate, were 374,283 tons. Apjrroximaie Production of Mills—Acreage Under Cnllivaiion. The above estimate is far below the actual loss, for it is well known that the actual destruction amounted to upward of 500,000 tons of sugar. The approximate possible produc- tion of sugar in the different Provinces at present and the number of mills in operation in each are shown in the following table: Provinces Number of mills. Approxi- mate pro- duction. Provinces. Number 1 of mills. Approxi- J mate pro- duction 7 21 40 70 Tons. 58,500 395,000 705,300 1,0:59,000 Camaguey Oriente 1 Total .... 20 43 Tons. 471,000 902,000 .... 201 Santa Clara 3,571,400

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