. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 29 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY THE CENTRAL DELICIAS On January 1912. this great Cuban sugar factory, having a capacity of 3,000 tons of cane per day, began its initial campaign, and it is expected to crusli, during the grinding season, over 400,000 tons of cane and to add approximately 300,000 bags of sugar to the output of the Pearl of the Antilles. The following de- scription is from the Louisiana Planter. Delicias lies at the eastern end of Cuba, a comparatively undeveloped region, but now clustered with such leviathans as Chaparra. Boston. Cape Cruz, Preston.
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 29 THE SUGAR INDUSTRY THE CENTRAL DELICIAS On January 1912. this great Cuban sugar factory, having a capacity of 3,000 tons of cane per day, began its initial campaign, and it is expected to crusli, during the grinding season, over 400,000 tons of cane and to add approximately 300,000 bags of sugar to the output of the Pearl of the Antilles. The following de- scription is from the Louisiana Planter. Delicias lies at the eastern end of Cuba, a comparatively undeveloped region, but now clustered with such leviathans as Chaparra. Boston. Cape Cruz, Preston. Soledad. Isabel. Santa Lucia and a dozen other factories which have either been constructed in their entirety since the Spanish war or have had their capacity greatly enlarged. Delicias is one of nine factories belong- ing to the Cuban-American Sugar Co. of Xew York, the others being Gramercy. in Louisiana, and Chaparra, San JManuel. Tinguaro. Nueva Liusa, Constancia. Uni- dad, Mercedita and the Cuban Sugar Re- finery, in Cuba, the combined output of the whole aggregating thousands of tons of sugar yearly. The designing and construction of the entire plant was done by the engineering department of the Cuban-American Com- pany. Work of erection was begun April 29, 1911. and the wheels began to revolve for the current crop January 1"). 1912. Delicias has two crushing units, each a 12-roller and crusher installation, with mill rolls 36"x84", and each unit has a capacity of tons of cane per day. The five vacuum pans are each 13 feet in diameter and discharge into 24 crys- tallizers, 9 feet in diameter and 24 feet long. The defecation system is the open settling tank with steam coils The boiler plant consists of 21) multi-tubular boilers. seven feet in diameter and twenty feet long. Sixteen of these are equipped with bagasse furnaces and four with coal fur- naces. The smokestacks are of steel, with a diameter of 10 feet and a height of 175 feet. There are two e
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