Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-08-21
SUGAR.

ITS MANUFACTURES IN NEW ORLEANS AND
ELsEwHERE-REcENT IMPROVEMENTS In
THE METHODS.
"The sulphur process Of decoloriza-
ton which has been applied of late
years in almost all of the sugar-houses
of Louisiana has taken away from the
refneries large amount of material
which, in former years, was shipped
from the kettle sugar-heuses in the
country, and worked up to o higher
grade by the refneries.
BY the application Of this sulphur pro-
cess Of Qualification, what were formerly
made on places as raw kettle sugars are
now brought up from the same lands
and in the same apparatus, only improv-
ed in the respect designated to the
higher grades of the article, while the
ochre or strsw-colored sugars made on
the plantation sell as high as many
grades of the refined. Thus, not hay
ing the home material to work on adj
vantageously, we have not So many re-
| fineries in operation as were at work in
or near our city several years ago.
The plantations made less weight of
sugar BY using the fumes Of the sulphur
Gus acid gas in their cane Juice, as all
acids are antagonistic to crystalhzation
of saceharine matter. They make more
molasses, which under this process, is
made much finer in quality, and less
sugar, which they sell at higher price.
On the whole, it is calculated they gain
considerably by applying the above
mentioned process over what they would
make If they produced the same old
time grades of kettle SUGARS, o great
part of which had to be worked over by
refining establishments. 'A''lio
The refneries are thus compelled to
rely on other sources whence to obtain
their raw material, and hence, at the
present time,I those in operation get a
much larger proportion of this from the
West Indian islands than was formerly
the case.
During the last few years there have
been six Or seven large sugar refneries
at work in New Orleans, and many
more in the state, if we include the
sugar-houses in the state that are fitted
up with refining apparatuses and work
other than the products of their own
field.
In New York, Boston and Baltimore,
almost all of the refined sugars to meet
the demands of the entire country are
worked up. Singular to say, in these
cities, fifteen hundred miles away from
the land of the sugar cane, one of the
most profitable pursuits known, sugar
refining, is worked to advantage. Mil
lions upon millions of dollars capital are
employed in the gigantic refining es-
adjustments J of 1.-THE northern cities,
while some of the greatestmoney men
OF the North have amassed their Gree.
sian fortunes in the refining business.
There are more marine risks to be run
ina voyage from Cuba to- New York
than from Cuba to New. Orleans. There
is more time occupied in the trip; freight
charges would be necessarily lower here;
this is more available distributing
point for the country. Yet the refining
business here receives no attention what
ever, when we come to consider how ex-
tensiye it is in the northern cities. 81 is
We can get as much skilled labor to
work up the sugar, our climateitis ma
turally better for working sugar in any
way, and yet, with all our advantages
this manufacturing interest is long
way behindhand here. .togssq saiilol\
We are informed that scarcely yfe1
fined sugar is shipped from New Orleans
now to other points, or very little com
pared to the amount the country con-
sumes, and, strange to say, we import
for our home consumption a large
amount Of the sugar that is refined in
the northern cities."- N. o. Picayune,