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 . he Spaniards on one side, takingmen and cattle, and the insurgents on the other, burningcane and buildings and stealing stock, the sugar planter wasutterly obliterated in some sections, and so badly crippledin others that the output reached only 225,221 tons, thelowest figure known in fifty years. Nor was this astoundingdecrease a matter of gradual accomplishment, permittingthe country, the business, and t
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 . he Spaniards on one side, takingmen and cattle, and the insurgents on the other, burningcane and buildings and stealing stock, the sugar planter wasutterly obliterated in some sections, and so badly crippledin others that the output reached only 225,221 tons, thelowest figure known in fifty years. Nor was this astoundingdecrease a matter of gradual accomplishment, permittingthe country, the business, and the people to accommodatethemselves to the changed conditions, but it happenedalmost in a night, and an income from sugar of $80,000,000a year dwindled on the instant to $16,000,000, a loss of$64,000,000 at once as the result of Spanish mismanage-ment. As a cane-sugar-producing country, nature has made Cubasuperior to any competitor which may appear; but all sugardoes not come from cane, and since 1840, when the firstrecord of beet sugar appeared, with 50,000 tons for theyears output for the world, as against 1,100,000 tons ofcane sugar, about 200,000 tons of which was raised in Cuba,. Sugar—History and Future Outlook 283 the sugar growers of the Island have had their only danger-ous rival. Beginning with the small production of 50,000tons in 1840, principally grown in France, the beet-sugarproduction increased rapidly in Europe, reaching 200,000tons in 1850; 400,000 tons in i860; 900,000 tons in 1870;1,860,000 tons in 1880; and in 1894 going to 3,841,000 sugar in the meantime only increased from 1,100,000to 2,960,000 metric tons. Cuba in i8q5 produced only 100,-000 tons less than the worlds entire output of all kinds ofsugar in 1840. The total output of beet and cane sugars in1893-1894 was 6,801,000 metric tons. The United Statesin 1894 produced 272,838 tons of cane sugar, 20,219 tons ofbeet sugar, 394 tons of sorghum sugar, and 3408 tons ofmaple sugar. With the gro
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