. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 13 THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY S POSSESSIONS IN CUBA The United Fruit Company controls from 50 to 60 per cent of the tropical fruit trade of this country and is heavily interested in the banana business with Great Britain. Germany, France, Norway and Denmark. The company owns 127,470 acres in Cuba. It owns the Saetia Sugar Compan)-, which possesses 33,.567 acres of land ad- joining the property of the Xipe Bay Com- pany in Cuba. It owns practically all of the Xipe Bay Company, owning a cane sugar plantation of 22,000 acres at Xipe, sugar mill and other propertie
. The Cuba review. THE CUBA REVIEW 13 THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY S POSSESSIONS IN CUBA The United Fruit Company controls from 50 to 60 per cent of the tropical fruit trade of this country and is heavily interested in the banana business with Great Britain. Germany, France, Norway and Denmark. The company owns 127,470 acres in Cuba. It owns the Saetia Sugar Compan)-, which possesses 33,.567 acres of land ad- joining the property of the Xipe Bay Com- pany in Cuba. It owns practically all of the Xipe Bay Company, owning a cane sugar plantation of 22,000 acres at Xipe, sugar mill and other properties at X'ipe, and controls over 100,000 acres more. Its sugar production is a paying investment, using lands found not so profitable for fruit raising as had been hoped. It conducts on its undeveloped lands a large cattle-raising business. The company's large properties in Santo Domingo were, according to the tenth an- nual report, disposed of by sale and the proceeds invested in sugar properties in Cuba. These Santo Domingo properties were valued at $."),0S5 in 1^907. At the same period the Cul)an sugar cane acreage increased from 19, in 1908 to 24,979 in 1909. The Cuban acreage has been found more profitable when planted in sugar cane than in bananas because it is .a bit too far north for profitable banana raising. Whose sugar cane land was bought the reports do not disclose. The report states that its sugar mills at Banes and Xipe produced 25,000 more bags of sugar than last year. This now comes in at a 2 per cent lower rate of duty.— Boston Globe. ANARCHISTS IN CUBA The Cuban government is fully aware of the fact that there are a numlier of an- archists in the country who are preaching tlie doctrine of "dj-namite" and doing all that they can to cause the laboring classes to rebel against the industrial classes, says the Haiaiia Post. IMeasures have been taken to see that none of these anarchists are allowed to become citizens. If they are not citizens
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