How Sugar is Made in Cuba. The Soledad Cuba sugar plantation has the repu tation of being the best managed sugar plantation in Cuba. It produced in 1890 12000000 pounds of sugar and this year it will probably send to market 14000 000 pounds. Other plantations largely exceed it in cul tivated area and mechanical resources the Consuelo having a product of 40000000 pounds but Soledad is conducted on scientific principles and with American thoroughness system and organization so that there is the greatest saving in the cost of production and the largest margin for profit on the investment. All the improved machinery is here ; every time-saving and labor-dispensing device is employed and the maximum amount of sugar is obtained from the cane at the lowest possible cost. Soledad is largely owned by Mr. Atkins of Boston but Mr. Murray the manager holds a large interest in it. H. J. Abbott who was f or many years a United States government expert and chemist and who has been most successful in operating planta tions here and in Santo Doming and in supplying new and improved machinery for them pronounces Soledad incomparably the best conducted sugar estate in the West Indies. At Soledad the cane is carried to the works by long trains running on narrow gauge railways through the estate. It is unloaded from the cars by negroes and thrown upon a broad carrier traveling up a long incline to the rollers of the first mill. As many as fifteen men are employed in handling this moving mass of cane. When it reaches the first mill it is ground by rollers weighing fifteen tons and set close together. The cane is broken up and about 60 per cent of the liquor which it contains is drawn off underneath the mill. Under the old process there was only one grinding and much of the liquor was wasted. Now the cane is ground twice and an additional 15 per cent of the juice is ob tained. Streams of liquor from the vats of the two mills unite and pass through a strainer one workman being employed in
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