Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-20
soathern settlers I'm Honduras.

A correspondent Of the New Orleans
Crescent writes from Belize, British
Honduras, August 3D.:
"Quite number of Americans have
settled in this colony. Their settlements
are in different lOcalities-several along
this Belize river, one at Lake Manatee,
one at Mullins river, one at Victoria,
one at Middle river and one at Toledo
and most of the people are in good health
and eheered by prospects of good crops.
or course there are few exceptions to
this.
All having been ignorant OF the coun-
| try when they made selections, different
degrees of success or failure must be ex-
pected in this as In all other countries, as
well as of health.
"The culture of sugar is now eliciting
more general and careful attention than
| hitherto, when it was only pursued by
the untutored Yucstanese with the most
primitive and inefficient appliances, who
however succeeded much better, in pro-
portion, than many empires who at
tempted it upon grander scale.
"'Che repeated failure of those induced
recourse to that skill which by Herculean
labor and pushing enterprise and knowl-
edge eXtorted from the uncengenial eli
mate and soil of Louisiana a crop of half
a million of hogsheads of sugar Tor as
they are termed here, tiercee), Per an
mum, and led to the engagement of seve-
raj of her former planters as managers.
The most prominent example OF their
success as yet is at II gala Estate, owned
by Antonio Mathe, Il %, which is under
the management Of Col. 3. McCuteheon,
who com meHced boiling in May, and in
about tiiiy-six working days made near
half million pounds Of concrete sugar,
and will continue rolling for month or
six weeks yet.
"Adjscent to Rsgalia are three other
sugar plantations with splendid crops of
cane in iuxuriant growth, and ma
chinery to take them off. Ga one of
them are twelve Thousand coffee trees of
the second years growth, which are
well filled with the fruit or bean, and
about fourteen thousand plantein trees,
which shade the coffee. These estates
would be a good investment for practical
sugar planters who have experience and
capital.
Higher up on the Sittee river. and
adjacent to Regalis, is the new estate OF
]. A. de Braam, Esq, who has since last
summer made a clearing of about three
hundred acres, erected q saw mill, with
shingle machine attached, and he saws
the mahogany, yemery and pine TIM
Der, of which he has an abun-
dance, which make good lumber,
and thereof is erecting q substan-
tial and permanent house for his en-
ployees and labOrers. 1t is his intention
to build a light railroad all over the es-
tate and through the fields, and by the
use of his locomotive, avoid the neces-
sity for mules and oxen In the corn fields. |
1t is his intention to have very large
plantation.
beyond Mr.. de Braam's, his cnusin, |
Mr.. Leclerc, from Holland, who, l un-
derstand, was formerly sugar planter in |
the Island of Java, is opening q planta-
ton, and has about one hundred acres of |
land cleared, and has just commenced |
erecting quarters for his laborers.
"These estates give evidence of what |
may be done even in a new and wilder |
ness country. Here are at least one |
thousand acres Of cleared land, q large |
portion OF which Is covered with cane. |
plantains and coffee, where three years |
since stood the gloomy primeval forest. |
Under all the disadvantages with which |
il commenced Regalia will Weld this |
year near eight hundred thousand pounds |
of sugar, which bids fair to be more than
trebled next year"