Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . ge of cents. Deducting from cents which wehave calculated as the present selling price at the central, , the present possible minimum cost of production, weshall get .25 cents, equal to Per cent, as the margin ofprofit. Mr. Clark takes New York prices in October, prices were not under normal conditions, the currentprices of the year being 2f to 2\ cents for 96 centrifuga
Industrial Cuba : being a study of present commercial and industrial conditions with suggestions as to the opportunities presented in the island for American capital, enterprise and labour . ge of cents. Deducting from cents which wehave calculated as the present selling price at the central, , the present possible minimum cost of production, weshall get .25 cents, equal to Per cent, as the margin ofprofit. Mr. Clark takes New York prices in October, prices were not under normal conditions, the currentprices of the year being 2f to 2\ cents for 96 centrifugals inbond. Mr. Clark gives cost of Muscovado sugars at theBritish islands of Trinidad and Barbadoes. These sugarstest 89, and are worth seven cents less per pound in NewYork than 96 test centrifugals. He compares cost and val-ues as if they were worth the same money. Properly com-pared, his profit changes into loss. In this connection the following figures, especially pre-pared by an expert for this work, may be of interest: THEORETICAL SUGAR CONTENTS OF 100 POUNDS CANE Bagasse (dry fibre) 12 pounds Juice 88 •« Total 100 88 pounds of juice containing 16 per cent, in 14 -se. Sugar—History and Future Outlook 287 THEORETICAL PURE SUGAR CONTENTS OF ioo POUNDS CANE The practical results are difficult to obtain. The best ofwork seems to be about as follows : Per 100 pounds of cane : Bagasse 30 pounds Juice (extracted) 70 Total 100 70 pounds of juice at 16 per cent, sugar equal in pure sugar, This pounds of sugar, less loss of working and less thesugar left in the final molasses, reduced the actual yield to about10 per cent, of pure sugar, or 10J per cent, of commercialproduct, besides the mechanical difficulty of increased impurities,whose ratio increases rapidly with better milling, and the loss offuel in the bagasse, which is an important consideration wheresuch loss must be made up by imported coal. 11 With 30 pounds of bagasse per 100 pounds of cane, no o
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