The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-10-27

| tin started their mill at the Pelico piaet
| last Monday and are making good progress
Their new coal kettles. seven in number
are giving great satisfaction-in fact, are
working better than had been expected
and the juice is so rapidly transformed into
sugar and molasses that it is impossible with
the present force of cane cutters and carts
to keep the kettles constantly supplied. Az
soon as some of the small crops in THEN
vicinity are taken Off, Messrs. Bujbl & St
Martin will increase their complement OF
knives and teams. The new kettles were
put up by that veteran mason and brick
layer, Mr.. T. Baudouin of st. Charles, and
the job is done in manner that indicates
the experienced and finished workman.
The breaking of q spur wheel pinion
caused stoppage of the mill of Messrs.
Lemanns' Rodriguez place, last week, but
the damage has been repaired and The mill
is again under way. There have been 70
hogsheads of sugar made at Rodriguez this
week, which is an excellent run for mill
of its capacity.
Messrs. Lemann & Hanson expect to start
the Belleterre mill on Monday. They in
tended to make an earlier start, but various
causes interviewed. There is promise of Il
fine sugar yield from the Belleterre crop.
At Mr.. Beirne's Ascension place one of
the boilers sprung leak Thursday night,
compelling suspension of operations until
the leakage can be stopped.
We hear from reliable source that the
sugar yield at Mr.. Godchaux's Souvenir
place is averaging 1850 pounds or more to
the acre. Under the proprietorship of Mr..
Godchaux and the management of Mr.. Full
gence Bourgeois the Souvenir has become
one Of the most productive and desirable
plantations in the parish. magnificent
crop was made there last year and this sea-
sons prospect is quite as good as TINT on
any other place in this section.
We inspected sample of the first strike
made at Mr.. j. T. Nolan's place, On Thurs
day, and found it to be of good grain and
fine color. Mr.. Nolan has about thirty
acres moro cane to grind than he had last
year, and We shall not be surprised to see
his total yield equal that of 1882
Our esteemed friend Z. N. Melancon,
Esq, assistant sugar maker on Messrs. An
ger d Nicol's Forlorn Hope plantation, H.
erville parish, has favored us with samples
of the yellow clarified sugars being manu-
featured on that place, and they indicate
that Forlorn Hope is turning out first
class product go far as quality is concern
ed. The sugar maker is Mr.. Horace G.
Mavor, younger brother of G. f. Mavor,
Esq, of Donaldsonville. The Forlorn
Hope place is worked on the tenant sys-
tenn, and besides purchasing and grinding
the cane of their lessees, Messrs. Anger &
Nicol will refine and granulate the syrup
made on the places Of several of their
neighbours.
A piece of iron about six inches long
and three -fourths of an inch in thickness
got between the rollers of the Hermitage
mill one night last week and was making
its way through whom its presence was dis
covered by the engineer and the engine
quickly stopped. The iron must have come
up on the cane carrier, but who placed it
there and whether the act was done by &c
cldent or design are matters of mystery.
Only one end of the obstruction had pen
Dtrated between the rollers, and but for
the hydraulic pressure regulator attached
to the mill tho housing of the rollers
would certainly have been broken, causing
expensive damage and delay. As it was
Ehere was no injury inflicted, though the
piece of iron was fiattencd out ct one end.
the enormous pressure to which
it had been subjected. The engine was
reversed and the iron dropped ont. This
incident atteBts the great value of the hy-
tranlic regulator that is coming into such
general use in connection with Louisiana
sugar mills.
Most of our planters having completed
The windrowing Of cane, sugar making has
been generally resumed and in every d.
rection tall ehimnoys are again bolclling
forth volumes of smoke by day md night.
The weather is all that could be desired
and under existing favorable conditions
The quality Of the cane is improving con
SANITY and steady improvement in the
yield of sugar will be observed.