Show HOW SUGAR MADE CUBA A WORLD EL ELDORADO DORADO sugar like shoes we once took for granted put but procuring enough for the preserving season was a problem and sugar s speak eables are still not uncommon in lands where the supply Is rationed writing to the national geographic society Nc lety william joseph showalter says with a sugar production nearly doubled and prices more than quadrupled since 1912 one can call readily bee bihy hy cuba Is the worlds kl el dorado of 1920 and why sugar Is its king the elie imagination Is almost overpowered in ili attempting to comprehend tile the vast proportions of the sugar industry of the leland as it exists tills this year tile cane produced li 14 of such tr tremendous nieu dons vo lurne that a procession of bull teams four abreast reaching around the earth would be required to move it the crop would suffice to build a solid wall around tile entire two thousand miles ot of the islands coast line its high as an ordinary dwelling houge and thick enough for a tile of four men inen to walk on oil it IL the flip sugar extracted from this cane would load a fleet of steamers reaching from havana hanana to new york with a ship for every mile ot of the hundred that stretch bet between veen the lie tand I 1 ports the great pyramid of choops before e whose two nive inspiring proportions millions of people have stood and gazed in openmouthed open mouthed arnaze ment re remains maing after live five thousand years unrivaled as a monumental pile but cubas sugar output this year would make two pyram pyramids pyramid ld each out basing and overtopping over topping choops tile the wealth the outgoing sugar crop brings in Is not less remarkable in its proportions four hundred dollars out ot of a single crop for every hump n being inho 11 ho lives on the island a sum mini almot almoite as great as the per capita wealth produced by all the faring all tile factor factories leq and all the mines of the united states what wonder then that cuba today Is a land of gold and gems richer than midas ever was inas converting croesus by contrast into a beggar how much net profit the cane grower reaps at 1020 1920 prices Is hard 1 to estimate but that it Is large will III appear tt hen the methods of cone cane rowing growing ore stated to begin with after the first crop the planter does not h have ave to bother with med time for about ten years the soll soil Is so deep and so 10 fertile that one planting produces ten harvesta har vesti neither does cultivation bother him after tile the first season for the blades stripped from one crop form a mulch that keeps t the lie weeds from competing with the nc next 1 one |