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 . , the amountconsumed, and the amount exported: The production of leaf-tobacco in the Island of Cuba beforethe revolution of the year 1894-95 amounted to about 560,000bales, averaging about 50 kilos each, say 28,000,000 kilos or62,173,800 pounds. Of this amount about 260,000 bales are har-vested in the province of Pinar del Rio, known in the trade asVuelta Abajo leaf, which is of the finest quality and of w
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 . , the amountconsumed, and the amount exported: The production of leaf-tobacco in the Island of Cuba beforethe revolution of the year 1894-95 amounted to about 560,000bales, averaging about 50 kilos each, say 28,000,000 kilos or62,173,800 pounds. Of this amount about 260,000 bales are har-vested in the province of Pinar del Rio, known in the trade asVuelta Abajo leaf, which is of the finest quality and of whichabout 140,000 bales are used by first-class cigar and cigarettemanufacturers of Havana, the balance being exported to theUnited States of America and Europe. The province of Havana on an average produced, before thewar, only about 70,000 bales known as Partido leaf, one-fifth ofwhich is used in Cuba for cheaper grades of cigars and cigarettesand the remainder exported to Key West, New York, and quantity of tobacco grown in the province of Matanzas is sovery insignificant that it is not known in the market at all. The province of Santa Clara produces on an average about. Tobacco 3°5 130,000 bales, generally known as Remedios leaf, of which about30,000 bales are used in that district and the neighbouring cities,and the remainder, 100,000 bales, goes to the United States ;that is, the finer grades, for the lower grades are shipped to Ger-many, etc. The province of Puerto Principe produces little orno tobacco ; nothing at least comes to the market. El Oriente, or in other words the province of Santiago deCuba, had a production of about 100,000 bales, generally calledtobacco Gibara or Mayari, of which about 40,000 bales are con-sumed by the inhabitants of the district, and the remaining 60,-000 bales are exported to those countries where a governmentmonopoly of the tobacco industry exists, viz.: Austria, Spain,Italy, etc. This tobacco is very coarse and the greater p
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