The Virgin islands of the United States of America; historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources . to makeat least 7,000 tons of sugar in 1916. The West India Sugar Factory is a stock company,with domicile in St. Croix and its directorate in Copen-hagen. Mr. Carl Lachmann is the managing directorin Copenhagen while Messrs. Torben Rist and P. Adam-sen are the resident directors. One half of the St. Croix Sugar Factory is ownedby the Danish Government and the other half belongsto the Danish Sugar Factory (of Copenhagen). Themanaging director in St. Croix is
The Virgin islands of the United States of America; historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures, and resources . to makeat least 7,000 tons of sugar in 1916. The West India Sugar Factory is a stock company,with domicile in St. Croix and its directorate in Copen-hagen. Mr. Carl Lachmann is the managing directorin Copenhagen while Messrs. Torben Rist and P. Adam-sen are the resident directors. One half of the St. Croix Sugar Factory is ownedby the Danish Government and the other half belongsto the Danish Sugar Factory (of Copenhagen). Themanaging director in St. Croix is Mr. L. V. factory, located just outside of Christiansted, hasmachinery that was installed forty years ago, althoughvarious improvements have been added from time totime. This concern owns but three plantations, itsprincipal business being to purchase canes from near-byestates, about three quarters of their total crop. Itsestimated output of sugar in 1916 was 3,000 tons. The La Grange Sugar Factory is owned by Mr. G. , who lives in Denmark and who has notvisited St. Croix for a considerable period. His inter-. OW ^ Sugar-Cane and Bay Leaf 169 ests here are administered by Mr. Christian Sorensen,The factory is fitted out with up-to-date machinery,brought from Glasgow, and is capable of turning outthirty tons of sugar daily (twenty-four hours). Twothousand tons, approximately, was its output in January i, 1916, the entire plant, including machin-ery and other complements, was offered for sale for$300,000. Of the eight individual concerns the following arethe most important: Concordia, owned and operatedby Mr. W. H. Fleming; Whim, owned by Miss and managed by Mr. J. W. Smith; Hogens-borg, owned and operated by Mr. G. B. Fleming;Diamond, owned and operated by Mr. MalcolmSkeech; and Clifton Hill, owned and operated by Hoffmann. Rum alone is made by several of theseindividual plants, and the combined output from themall for 1916 was est
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