The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-04-15
The Central Factory System,

The annual consumption of SUI.
gar in the United States is esti
mated at 100000 tons. The
State of Louisiana contributes to
this in round numbers. $4,000
tons. There is therefore a home
market for nearly nine times its
present product. Before the wal
it made in one year over 100000
tons, and it was estimated that
its sugar lands then in cultivation
had capacity for yielding 25O,
600 tons. There can be little
doubt however, that there are su
gar lands enough in the State new
er yet cultivated which could
doublo this amount, thus produc
ing five sevenths of the quantity
necessary to supl. the entire con
sumption of the country. There
is therefore an extensive home
mar ket to meerla home supply OF
at least nine times the present
product, and having the lands: no
more is required than the neces
sary capital and labor to make
the required product. 1t is unne
cessary to comment on the pros
perity this would impart to the
State and the impulse it would
give to the trade of New Or
leans.
To accomplish These objects the
Price Current has often advocat
ed the establishment of Central
Factories, which would take the
cane from producers at a remun
erative price, and by means of
their improved machinery and
power of capital, realize from it a
larger manufactured product than
is obtained from the present sys
TEN. In furtheIance of this poll.
cy we are now gratitied to see
that Mr.. M. A. Montejo, an ac
complishel civil engineer, who
has devoted special attention to
sugar making bas just published
a pamphlet in which he cogently
advocates the establishment o1
American Central Sugar Fac
tories. We commend this timely
br0chure to the attention Of capi
tali>ts and owners of sugar lands
and copy from it tine following
extract:
1t may be laid down as an AK
iom, that the industrial interes,
!, of Il country reach their hlghests
development and greatest produ-
cling power, By u division of labor
| Wheat, cotton, and iron, fol
instance, in their different trans
formations, afford IA variety of OBJ
jects for the application of human
industry, which, however dissim
lar, have a common point of con-
tact, the relative values of the raw
material and of the manufactured
article; and these are regulated by
the law of supply and demand.
In like manner, in all countrie!
where forced labor has ceased tt
exist, and where the labOrins
classes evince a desire to improve
their condition, the Sugar indus
try, far from attempting to prt
duce its raw material, is conten,
to buy it from the agrculturist
and to pay for it either in manu-
factured products, or other wise
according to local conditions. b,
this means the production of th'
raw material is encouraged, be.
cause the manufacturer is enable.
to exclusively attend to and per
feet all matters pertaining to h..
line, and to devise means to ex.
tend his operations.
If, in Louisiana. the Sugar inte
est, under system of forced la
Dor, has been so prosperous il
former times, if its crops were in
!. portant enough to influence price
on all American market /; if, wit
partial yields of three and fou
hogslleads to the acre, it reached
a production of 100000 tons; il
in fiue, money was made wit
Sugar OF three to four cents
pound, how can it be doubted
that much greater results will b
obtained when we shall have in
troduced proper separation i
the respective attributiOns of tn
planter and manufacturer Tia
: the American market offers a greo
future tor the consumption Of Suga
is a matter Of fact, as with a popr
l. lation tending to grow in a tenfol
ratio, the actual average cOnsum
tion is about 7OO,O0 tons, whic
: = shows an increase Of % per cen
in the last decade, whist its POI
k ulptiOn has only Increased 22.2:
=
The Louisiana planter may b