New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-03-23
SOUTHERN nNrERpRIsE.

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n One Of the enterprises which belongs particularly
this part Of the country and one the progress OF
whichwe take great pleasure in recording is that OF
sugar and moIasses refining. The immense amount
Of the sacehane produce of this State added to that
4 which is imported from Cuba, and the great purhca
ton which it requires in It's transit from the planta
ton watts to the tables of the people, cond hardly fail
to create an extensive refining business here in New
Orleans That we have an extensive business of this
kind in our midst we have from time to time satisfied
ourselves by personal visitation and examination.
The last hive of sweets we visited was the Mer-
chants Molasses Refinery of Messrs. Ross, Addison
q Co., on St Joseph street-ofice No. 81 Tchoupi-
toulas street. We were edited by the visit, and not
little "sweetened upn by the clouds of steam from
the boiling molasses in which we were several times
baptised.
At the rear of the establishment we found series
Of large cauldrons filled with syrup, in very lively
commotion from the effect Of the fires underneath.
The man who stood in the steam with his dipper,
throwing off the "a skimmngsn looked as if he were
utterly oblivious of the charm of molasses, from
snrfeit of it and skmmedit, dipped it and kept com
pany with it generally as callousy as any aborer
over his mud in a draining canal. 1t occurred to
us that if there any anticonsumptive virtues in
molasses steam, contend there are, that man
! would never die q natural death; be would outlive
old Parr, and then dry up into stick of 'lasses
candy! All the additional life that is conferred by
the steam of one hundred barrels of molasses, that
lucky man gets each blessed day Of his existence.
We said one hundred barrels Of molasses. This is
the daily capacity of the refinery, which the proprie
tors do not claim to be extensive Their aim is to
make their moasses famous for its quality, rather
than its quantity and to this end they reboil none
but the best Louisiana article. -
4 The cooling department where the molasses, after
leaving the cauldrons, composes itself for barreling
and transportation, is OF primitive appearance, though
!. it answers every desired purpose There is long
row of tubs on each side of the long room which are
1 filed by wooden troughs leading from the cauldrons.
The trough has spout for each tub. and each tub
spgot for the barrel that is to be filled beneath it.
The caudrons are elevated above the tubs, and the
Y tubs at barrels height above the floor; thus en-
abling the saccharine torrent to flow from its own
gravitation. 1t is pretty sight to see the numerous
red tongues darting from the troughs into the tubs
as each filing of the caudrons is let off to make way
for new filling.
An ingenious continuance of Mr.. Ross's for ascer-
tanning precisely when barrel is full, without re-
moving the funnel half dozen times, attracted our
attention. There has always been much delay in
A filling barrels, from the necessity of removing the
tunnels and peeping in at the bung-hoes. Mr.. Ross
has obviated this delay as follows: near the bung-
hole is another hole, of small sze into which is in.
serted rod, properly marked with bit of cork on
its end. As soon as the barrel approaches fullness,
the moIasses lifts the cork and the attendant has
only to watch the figures on the rod as it rises
through the hole, to know exactly when to turn off
the stream BY this means, no time is lost, and the
barrel is filled with mathematical precision having
neither air inside smear of sweets outside.
/ Over the refinery is the cooper's shop, where the
barrels are turned out The nitatory process of
emptying the molasses into vat and pumping it up
to the cauldrons, we have not described it is so
simple as hardly to possess interest. The refined
moasses, which was barreled and ready for exporta
ton, we sampled and found as pure and neyhavored
an article as we could wish to taste. We can con-
fdently recommend all who may be seeking an extra
article of reboiled Louisiana molasses-for other
| kind is refined by Messrs. Ross, Addison Il Co-to
go and sample that of the Orleans Refinery.