, 1876-10-25
TOOTH'S PRO CESS.
From tie Trinidad Chronicle. y

Sugar planting, will remember coming across
notices. during the last eighteen months, of q
method of obtaining sugar from the cane by
Mr.. ROBERT TcoTH Of Queensland, from which
were anticipated great advantages over the
prevailing system. 1t was stated to be- very
different from the last in detail, simpler In
working, more profitable and less wasteful In
result. Curiosity in Trinidad was still more
pricked when 1t became known that Mr.. Tooth
had gone to Demerara and made arrangements
with Mr.. Quentin Hogg for setting his method
at work In that colony, on one of the fine pro-
pertiss of that gentleman. 1t was only two
or three months ago that Mr.. Tooth's name
appeared In our Shipping News among the
passengers who called here on their way home
from the Southern colony. During the few
hours Of his stay he made the acquaintance of
a few of our merchants, but had no time on
that occasion to enter in any arrangements
having this island in view as the seat Of works
on his mode. The present mail brings news
however, of an important step taken by Mr..
Tooth, which makes him and his PROPOSALS a
matter of immediate interest to all concerned
in the sugar industry Of the colony. He has
written to say he will leave London for Trini-
dad by next mail leaving England October the
2nd, and that he will be followed shortly after
by machinery and plant to establish a Central
Factory in the colony capable Of working-up
100, 1000 gallons of cane-juice daily, making
1000 tons of Sugar per crop. The factory
will contract with s~uppliers Of juice, not grow
ing canes itself, paying for The liquor either
in money or sugar, at per 1000 galIors. Fin
money, Mr.. Tooth ~reckons, as the result Of
very careful e%xperimon, 5 made with the Plant
ers in Demerara, that he could afford to pay
%, per cWt. more than the price of muscovadO
sugar, whatever be the ruling price of the
day. II the payment be made in Sugar
instead OF money, he says it might be
delivered over at short periods, even
weekly. He enters into few particulars at
present as he may be expected here in a fort
night hence, unless some strong inducement in
tervene for him FIRST to visit another colony.
For the first set Of works, he says, it will be
necessary that it be placed close to water car
rage and that arrangements be made for Juice
in close proximity to the Works, but
all the better if the daily quota of 100, 600
gallons could all be had by water. The
bank Of a navigable river on which are
several cane-estates willing 10 enter into
engagements with him, or the Gulfshore
in close proximity to a crushing mill, seems TO
be what would best suit his first requirements.
Twenty miles would not be too far, he inti-
mates, for the carriage Of the juice by water
lin tank flats, we suppose specially built, but
where not obtainable in sufficient quantity BY
water, the liquor might be conveyed to the
Central Factory from the crushing mill bv
pipe, a mile or two of which could be laid in a
few weeks, in a plain country like the greater part
Of Trinidad, People are aStonished to hear Mr..
Tooth propose to have a mill at work for the
coming crop, as it takes so long to erect
buildings fix machinery and apparatus here, on
the ordinary methods. The St. Madeleine
Usine was over two years in building and ht-
ting complete. But there is an element of
simplicity in Mr.. Tooth's plans that
enables him to assure us his Works can
be up In order in two months. How
this is accompliShable. he does not intimate
and we are left to dreams of folding beds and
chairs, expanding tables, great American war
bridges rebuilt for rail and army in a couple of
days, of Chicago monster hotels erected
without intermission by relays of men aided by
the electric light, of Jack and the Beanstalk,
and Aladdin and his genii, and in waking hours
left to recollections of steamers sent us in
pieces numbered, of iron churches and stores
sent to the colonies in q similar way, and OF
crystal palaces and other wonders of the day,
simple enough when understood. But a site
has 10 be selected, bought and prepared-a
wharf or jetty probably to be- made, perhaps
tank.boats to be built-a fotilla of them.
There is indeed little time left between the
third week in October, and the end OF the year to
do all ONr Ma npNina Apotrol;on fr;on1 Eli