, 1874-08-22

on account OF transportation and water
supply, proposals have been made for ano-
Their mode of proceeding which I shall now
set forth more precisely.
The length of st. Croix is about 4 Dan
ish miles, it's breadth about /, and it is con-
~sequently long and narrow. The proposal
Is to the effect of laying down a pipe of
cast iron throughout the whole length of
the island for conducting the Juice. Along
the line of pipe are to be erected establish
ments for the extraction of the Juice, which
would be situated between the estates, so
that the canes could be conveyed with
slight expense to these establishments.
By being spread over the whole island,
they would, as a matter of course, much
easier obtain the necessary quantity of
fresh water than one sole, large factory
would. Here the juice is to be ex-
tracted, and then pumped through the
conducting pipe to the s~ugar-boiling
establishment, or establishments, which
should be erected near the shipping ports,
both for the sake of transportation, and
because from the great reservoir Of the
sea, the necessarily enormous quantity Of
water for Notwithstanding to
about as much daily as the daily water
supply of the city Of Copenhagen-can
easily be had. In the Central Sugar
Boilery'' the juice is, after repeated clari-
flying and fltering, boiled to sugar and
the secondary products connected with it,
rum and molasses. The advantages result
ing from such an arrangement will be
obvious. The saving in transportation
alone will represent q very considerable
capital, the division OF labour will be still
further carried out to the great advantage
of the whole Manufacture, and the cost
of the conducting pipe will not be greater
than that of a tramway.
An important question with respect to-
the whole enterprise-and that on the an
swering of which it will after all depend
is, of course, if it will pay. This is not
the right place to enter into a closer inves-
tigation of this question some hints in that
direction will, however, be found to belong
naturally to the whole development of the
scheme. If we assume (and the assump-
ton will no doubt be pretty nearly %correctl
that, for the whole enterprise will be re-
quired 8 millions RixdoIlars, of which 2
millions for erection and working capital,
and l million advances on crop at 6 p. CT.
interest, and if we further assume that
only one half of the planters join at once,
SO that, in the beginning, only 40, 100000
lbs. canes were delivered, there would be
with q calculated yield of 7 lbs. sugar a
S cents per 100 lbs. of canes, and rum and
molasses corresponding to / of the value
of the sugar a profit resulting from the
manufacture of 10 millions lbs. canes of
$4,000, and when to this amount we add
E o. CT. of the one million advances, the
whole surplus would be $213,0 900, or about
100000 Rixdollars, consequently IA p. CT.
of the capital. If my assumptions with
respect to better agriculture hold good,
the crop will self-evidently increase, and
with it the extent of manufacture and gain
derived from it, and there might then also
be good reason for giving the planters q
share in the profits, by dividing between
them and the owners of the capital invest
ed the profit made above, t. in., Top. CT. In
this manner the planters would get a
direct interest in the whole enterprise,
which would be of equal Importance for
both parties. TO enter into closer cal"
culation, which after all will be a mere
estimate, is not necessary here the above
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