, 1875-01-16

lection may be judged from the fact of the
numerous small sugar plantations they
have established in a rough wav, will
throw themselves hand and heart into the
Central Factory system and after all this
development OF native enterprise, amongst
people bound to the soil with their fami-
lies, must hold out greater promise of per-
manency than the spasmodic efforts of alb
sentee mortgages to drive the sugar in
dustrv into this or that channel, as it NAV
suit the purposes of the moment. Ger
tainlv the absentees interested in estates,
do US great good in this way, that with
out their capital we could not get on
at all, but they naturally work that capt.
tai for their own profit, rather than for
our advantage and it is impossible to
o|vcrrate the benefits that would accrue
to the Island, if alongside of the thirty
thousand hogsheads Of raw Sugar which
we export at present from the estates in
existence, because that kind of produce
pays those who get their commissions &c.
o1t of it, better than any other, we could
export thirty thousand more OF refined
Sugar fit for immediate consumption,
produced by people through the stimulus
of Central Factories, who would never
lift a hoe for any Of the large estates.
Mr.. Burton sketches the plan OF his
proposed company as follows:-
/ propose therefore the formation of a Com
paDy with a nominal capital Of ESQ 600 stg.
divided In 10000 shares of G5 stg. each, with
power to increase the capital and to extend the
number Of Shares. The shares to be called
up, GI stg. on application, 92 stg on aIIot-
ment, Gl in six months afterwards, and calls
Of los. at intervals Of three months. | trust
those persons of position who think we'll of the
Project, and wish to further it by taking
shares, will by letter inform me of the number
they, and those they may influence, will proba-
bly, take, 50 that | may be in a position TO Judge
lift is advisable to proceed with a Project
which entails expense. Should | then ind Sutl-
oient inducement to guarantee II, will proceed
In the publication of the Prospectus and Arti-
cles Of Association for the Company.
This IS surely a very moderate amount
to End for what must be when attained
an IL calculabLe good. We do hope that
the community will respond by at once
lib rally applying toy shares. Mr.. Burton
has given an earnest OF his own faith in
the undertaking by spending money and
time and energy with no mlggardIy hand,
i. Tie preliminary journeys and inquiries
necessary to establish his project as a
practicable onej and the public onght to
removed by tins declaration, that if at
ter the complete expose of the benefits
both private and public which it is des-
tined to procure, the public will not unite
and take it by the hand, now that all is
ready, the opportunity must be for ever
lost.
Mr.. Burton concludes his letter with a
bv no means overdrawn estimate of the
probable effects OF the Central Factory
system here, which we now reproduce
and endorse. He. says
Meanwhile / must again point out that this
Project cannot possibly injure any present
planting interest 1t will employ labour which
does not 90 to Sugar Estates. It will give in
9epenlent position to numbers of young men as
cultivators of their W or hired lands, who
will sell their canes to the factories young
men, who to-day fEd no employment, CT az
least q precari0us one 1t will make a num-
Der ofslnall towns and villages prosperous. Ii
will convert into a garden thousands of acres OF
lands that to-day give 10 revenue to Jamaica.
1t will stir up and animate to e~xertiOn, those
who now simply exist in those localities. 1t
will introduce machinery and a system OF cultl-
walton hitherto unknown in Jamaica. 1t will
call into action and honest pursuits. and retain
in the Island by consolidating for them a posi-
ton. a class of men who never can be day la
bourers and who, finding no means to procure
a decent livelihood leave Jamaica to seek such