Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-29

para estate, which win turn on, $780,.
0O0 bage.
IN mo central province Of Puerto
| Principe there are only four sugar
| plantations HOW nNcned bu one Of
| these belongs 10 an American ana u
, WIN produce an told about 1900, 000
pounds oi sugar this ycnr There ave
ALTOGETHER mnic Than $4,000 GOO of
American money Invested m sugar mills
| ana Worllnr rauo lnndp M ruhn, nnd
lhla " today probably ycl1hg d nix,
get front than Hny American none,
abroad
CuRAs NEW LANDS,
The SUGAR which We now get from
| cuba comrs from old plantations, ana
No gfealor part Of u II from santa
Clara, Maansaa and Havana Th, IN.
crease m the cron ~ the future VIII
come from tho eastern part NJ tho w..
hnd which has been opened up bv tn
| l'nhn railroad built from Santa clara
to sonllngo, by slr William Van Horne,
ana running along Iuhn'a backbone,
This country ~ now covered With Tor.
cet ono rides for mlloa through moth.
lng bu woods woods Woode but the
woods c0yor nnd na rlch N not tichrr
than un" now devoted ~ sugar and
lnnd which has ihs virtue Of never hny.
ing boon fofmo1,
In gong o,0 the rond saw mum.
Der NJ rlncfH where new sugar planin.
lions Wcro hplng out oul ~ the woods.
The lnfpofl NJ M Jltohonleu, whore
something likc 3000 ncron have boon
cleared and planted IN cane and whore
a SUGAR min N now building \ few
months ago ibis was nothing but for
est The cuba company pm, IA lts
men, ana cut down the trees A oou.
pie ~ months later the ground was
burned over and tho cane N now grow
llH among the Hiumpe and logs left
from the IRE, by The time II IL rondy
for cutting the mill viii have boon com.
plotcd ana the cane VIII be carried on
little plantation railroads direct from
the noldH n IN the intention to pu,
IN about 1000 acres Of cane FOR this
mill alone,
similar mills win bo buIlt AZ other
places along tho road, and one ospeol.
MY w soon TO be constructed 10 supply
The suRnr estates ~ Michigan Hyndl.
cate which has bought u large tract Of
lnnd a short distance from lnmaRuoy
nl0Ng The line of tho railroad
IA II IN now, not half the lands fitted
Tor sugar hnvo been reduced 10 cult,
walton and II has been estimated that
the sugar product NJ cuba might be
quadWplod and not use nll the available
sugar lands,
WHAT IN COSTS TO RAISE SUGAR
Cubn can produce sugar cheaper than
any other country, The plantation at
Jnlobonlco, which | referred to, win
continue 10 produce cane for fifteen or
twenty years without roplnnlmg There
arc plantations here which have pro.
ducod for twenty-five years from one
setting out ana u w said that cane
has grown forty and even more years
on the snmo ground, being cut IN year
after year ana sproutlng up again from
the old stalks, No one thinka of re.
planting cane here for five, ton or NJ.
teen yoArs after the plantation has been
frat sol out and on this new ground
al that ~ needed IL TO plant ana keep
out the weeds ana tho crop goes on
for years without other cultivation,
IN many Other countries tho cane
has To be planted every third year aud
] know ~ no place whore II win last an
Iona ~ IN this, ! hove made somo In
plllrles na 10 what II costa 20 produce
sugar ~ cuba, and tho estimates are
about a cent 81 n cent ana Il quarter
a pound, Beet RuQnr costs IN most
places two or three cents pound aud
huoh sugar VIII have TO be- aold M three
and a half cents pound 90 make n
Fam pront Now inaamnch nv there ~
more beet sugar In the world than cane
sugar This means That the price must
be nyel by the former, ana that II onn.
not be lose than tho amount above
mentioned AZ that rate cuba can
make sugar aud pay dividends on la
plantations. At tho present prices n IL
receiving more than ever before. Tho
crop Cor 1908 VIII be worth OOOO, 900
or 10000 0Oo moro than ordinary, and
~ consequence the sugar Industry In
booming and there " likely TO be an
o,orprcduction The chief trouble here