New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-02
IPON-SUGIR.

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IRON-SUGAR.
Certain persons who have Iron mines to SELL
or who wish to extend the business OF Iron
making in their respective neighbOrhOods so
rs TO build up cities or manufacturing villages,
have certified that Pig Iron can be made there
for s25 (or thercabouD per tun, while it will
sell for $40 We preSume-at all events, we
hope-that they have told the truth. Our
country is still paying Europe Cor rather run
ming into debt to EurOpc) many Millions per
annum for Iron aud Steel; and we believe 1t
the true interest of our whole people that TINS
amount be rapidly reduced until our imports
of Iron shall be fairly balanced by our exports.
I'm other words, we want more furnaces, rolling"
mills, &c, erected or set to work. we want
those already mt work melted to make more
and more Iron; and, if there be indeed proht
of $lj, Oh $iO or even 50 per tun, on Pig
Iron, we are sure that more and more people
will be drawn into the business, until the
profits are reduced to q par with those real
lied in other branches of our National In
dustry. Unless water has ceased to run down
hill. n large average profit on making Pig Iron |
must produce this result. If the Free Traders |
could be made to believe their own stories |
that is, to believe them fair exhibits OF the
average results of IIon-making, and not eXcep-
tiona, misleading instances OF eXtraordl-
nary success achieved under peculiarly
favorable circumstanccs-we should have them
rushing pell-mell into ron-making within the
next three months The field Is open-you
can buy more Iron-mnes in Virginia alone
than would supply the world with metal for
thousand years, mt price not exceeding one
cent per hundred tuns for the pure metal
there are furnaces selling at auction each week
for less than the cost of building them; and,
if Iron making be really profitable, whoever
has means may embark in it tomorrow II he
will If this business is a monopoly" then
growing corn rearing cattle is monopoly,
and old fashioned definitions are obsolete.
The State of Louisiana has q Board of Com
mssioners of Emigration, and Is seeking sys-
tematcally and successfully to attract settlers.
Her Board has issued bulletin, setting forth
the surprising richness of her SOIL the genialty
of her climate, her facilities for inland navlga-
ton, &C., &c. Among others, her leading
cane growers were asked to set forth the pro-
fits of her Sugar industry, which some OF them
have done, as follows:
MOUNT HOPE. Parish OF st. Landry, Jan. l. 1869.
employed the past year p hands TO WIT: 10 mem .
acres and in cotton 100 acres besides several acres III
pO'"'O'' " RESULT OF THE YEARS WORK.
Ground SO acres OF cane, In Is days. making lOs
hogsheads OF 1880 pounds each, which sold at ~
I made POO bbs molasses, equal to 5000 gallons, at
, 20 cents S 800
Also So bales OF cotton. equal to $1,000 pounds, at
q 1914
Gross receipts. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S29,2li
EXrENsEs
NY total expenses provisions. repairs hire Of hands
sugar.maker hogsheada ana barrels we're $4,000 which
deducted from gross income, leaves s97li as my years
income. am very respectfully, your 0bedlent servant
P.s-Iemployed seven extra hands for 90 days
BAYOU BGUF, st. Landry Parish, Jan. l, 1862
Herewith transmit, in accordance with your request
1868, on the Barbrcck and ST. Peters plantation:
Sugar produced 400 hhds., averaging 1850 pounds
1860 gallons moasses, at 80 cents per gallon 1880
Gross proceeds.
Profits $50 500
Besides tho above we produced 1900 bushels Of corn
which is mt least 5000 1000 than require for
tho use OF the plantations very r''p'''dSM fIrxr
LlnYcE PLANTATION Parish OF st. Landry, Jan 1869
The following correct statement Of the crop asked
% acres Of plant cane and 50 acres of corn cultivated
ascs and 1900 bushels of We ground " acres OF
cane. and sold three acres for $1,000.
The u acres produced 1913 hhds. or sugar, weigh
ing lbs 3il bbls. moasses, 1892 gallons ayeag
ing per acre. 5000 lbs or sugar. ana 2Vo Sdlohs OF mo
lassea.
Net proceeds from tho above, including the
three acres Oh cane ffTTfiitS.fs 10
For cultivatng the crOp...............sl,9E 90
For taking Of the same ................. l,55l 81
For pork In lieu Of wages. ........,.... COZ 90
Sugar hOgshcads, mOlasSeS barrels, re-
pairs 10 sugar house, aud other small
$500 90 &03s 81
Net proceeds. .>252S1 81
We consumed In making the sugar 600 cords OF gum
wood: taking oil the CROP we hired 80 extra hands
their wages are included in the 1851 81.
Number OF days cutting cane.
Number OF days grinding .....,...................2
Total capital invested ............ ......S $4,000
Your obedient servant, GEo. w. MORGAN.
Mr. Grafenberg, near New Iberia, worked AZ hands at
n cost OF sj0O each for wages and provisions He pro
duccd i65 hhds sugar and $40 bills moasses, which
brought low price S1S3l 49, Ninety hhds of sugar
taken from % OF land Tho gross product OF
the plantation was about $500 per acre. His not profit
over $4,000
planter tho parish Of Terrebonue selected 30 acres
OF cane which yielded him three hOgSheads Of sugar and
six barrels of mollsSea per acre. The sugar was of
superior quality AMI Drought IS cents per pound tho
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