Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1856-03-29

time. that the general interest would suffer by
it. while only the Interested few would be
benefited. "A Sugar Planter" says, and
correctly:
"Algiers is certainly not the proper place,
although il is the terminus OF the Opelou>as
-raiiroa';, and a number Of warehouses are at
that pace ready to receive sugar and molas-
ses on storag". If the object is to make a
sugar depot, from which to take sugar and
send it over to the levee for sale, Alsicrs
would do as we'll as any other place; but it
can never be a market, and that is what we
want, l ,magile.'
That is exactly what the Planters want,
and what they has been trying to get for a
lcng time-a place where their merchandise
can be kept from the weather, and their own
time to effect sales.
"A Sugar Planter after having made
some remarks upon the current d trade, and
its general tendency up the river, instead OF
down. says:
Efforts have been made to divert a por-
ton Of TIE trade down the nver, and failed.
Look at the lever cotton press and tobacco
warehouses-is ANYTHING stored inthem when
storage can he obtained up town? The re-
suit will be the same il A'.ier- should he Sc
lec:ed as a sugar market. l. will be a failure
1t will be only a depot. No s~uliiciel, q,'ar-
titv of sugar will ever accumulate there for
sale which will serve as an intucement tor
buyers to go there hahitralIv to make pur-
chases. 1t is announcement to the steamboat
landing. No steamboat having a general
cargo to be aided at the ievee will be easily
induced to take ii quantity Of sugar on board
to be landed down there. nor will steamboats,
l.art ally loaded at the ievee like to so there
to Ike in ii portion OK her cargo OF sugar and
mo'asses tor the western country"
Having offered these arguments against the
location of a mart at Alyiers, he goes on to
show that sor1e point on the opposite bank of
the river from New Orleans, Opposite to, or
above the steamboat landing. was most likely
to be successful and that the market ought
to lie established by a joint association Ct
planters, who should contribute from their
a,eans to eject their object. He saws:
That such a market would succeed, 7
think is certain. would locate It between
the Opelousas railrcad and the river. Hav-
ins a turn out from the railroad. and a wharf
on the river hank, with low sheds. rum ng at
right angles with the river, ard platforms and
railways between each line Of sheds. and of
area sufficient for the convenient reception of
the probable quantity Of sugar that might be
stored in it.
Such a market would Of conrse be as con-
venient to the planter who sends his sugar 10y
the Or ~elousas railroad as >AIslers. and it
would he much more convenient to the river
planter, beca,se he would have no difficulty
in sem;ing his sugar to le landed at If by any
steamboat coming down to New Orieans.-
The facility for shipping 1t up tie river would
he equally good. Tie stSk IN this market
being taken by the planters themselves. each
stakeholder would have a pride and all inter-
est in its success, which must secure to it the
storage, Tor sale. OF a large amount Of sugar.
and that alone would secure the Attendance of
BUYERS. The su~;,crior advantage which this
market would possess over the levee must in
a few years attract all the sugar of the State,
and the leyee would Cease to lie a market tor
sugar.
Having set forth his views upon the sub
ject, he suggests that the planters should form
an association for their mutual protection
and from i, 1 formation derived from those in
terestec in the matter. We learn that il. will
form the next object of the Convention. after
the location of the market has been deter
mined upon. Every effor: has been made.
that ingenuity could devise, by those opposed
particularly specuiators-to the rernova! of
the market; urging that factors. merchants.
and the commercial interest of New Orleans
would suffer by the change "a Sugar Pant
err thus reiutes these charges:
!" 1t is said the f ctors and merchants are
not in favor ct the removal of the sugar mar
kst. ! cannot see why they sho,ol not b..
They see under their own ewes the evils and
damage we suffer. and have no means to pro-
tect 's from them. under the present SYSTEM
They cannot fail to see that when the crop IS
large and the le,ee crowded we are entirely
III The power Of spectators. who, under the
fhirty-six hours rule, can run the price of
sugar down whenever they please. Our in
terests ami that of our factors are identical.
Why should they not he with us7 The Lu-
slness IS done chiefly through brokers. who
can every morning procnre the samples from
the opposite side o! the river as eailv as from
the 'evee. II the factor desires to look at
the sugars himself, 1t IS certainly much more
pleasant to- cross the river in a ferry. boat and
so on a csan platform. than to wade through,
the mud and fifth Oh the Ievee.
10 the commercial interest of New Or
leans, it cannot ma Ike the slightest difference :;
the basis which the sugar crop furnishes for
commercial transactions viii be precisely the
same whether it is sold on one or the other
bank Of the river. and TIE profits to be made
| Out ct It will no INST fha ov,,,% e>-,,
OF those levee charges and operations, from
winch we are row endeavoring to free our
selves.
10 Ihe river has commenced falling at
this point, and we hope may continue to + II
TOR some time to come. There is still another