. The Cuba review. . Cigarette manufacturing in Havana. A scene in the hand packing department ot the "El Siboney" factory. The conveyor is seen going at full speed. It also shows the different style in the package, showing different brands of cigarettes that are manufactured by the company. The girl to the right has a number of stamps in her hand ready to attach to the packages. This stamp is placed on all boxes of cigarettes which are made for local consumption, and represents the tax levied on manu- factured tolDacco under the $35,000,000 army loan. Standing against the wall are t
. The Cuba review. . Cigarette manufacturing in Havana. A scene in the hand packing department ot the "El Siboney" factory. The conveyor is seen going at full speed. It also shows the different style in the package, showing different brands of cigarettes that are manufactured by the company. The girl to the right has a number of stamps in her hand ready to attach to the packages. This stamp is placed on all boxes of cigarettes which are made for local consumption, and represents the tax levied on manu- factured tolDacco under the $35,000,000 army loan. Standing against the wall are to be seen packages of cut tobacco. This class of tobacco is more for export than for local use. CUBAN TOBACCO. The quality of this year's tobacco crop is reported better than for many previous years, according to El Tobaco, the raw- tobacco sales for 12 months ending Sep- tember 3 amounting to 25,976,200 pounds, the laro-est ever recorded for the same period. "The exportation of raw tobacco during August amounted to 108,480 pounds more than for the same month in 1907. Expor- tation of manufactured cigars has de- creased. Italy's Imports.—Imports of leaf tobacco by Italy from Cuba in the last two fiscal years are as follows: 1904-5. Quantity, pounds 55,000 Value $21,700. 1906-7. Quantity, pounds 72,000 Value $37,500 Price per 100 pounds : 1904-5 $ 1906-7 $ —U. S. Government Report Heavy Tobacco Receipts. No two months' receipts from the country for the past five years surpass that of August and September in 1908. Packers were unusually active in get- ting their goods to market, for several reasons. One was that many buyers^ were in Havana and there w:as a good chance of making a sale. Some say, too, that packers are anxious to get their packings into Havana before the Cuban election, when there may possibly be trouble in the country. The numbers of bales received were as follows: 1904. 1905. 1906. 1907. 1908. August .. 72,871 110,273 79,657 91,305 Septe
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