The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-03-10
Need of a Sugar Exchange.
views of Ascension Planters on this I'm
Dortant Subject


Views of Ascension Planters on this I'm
| Dortant Subject.
Thinking the silhioined extracts vii
prove OF interest to sncll of our readers
as nave not already seen them in print
we reproduce from the New Orleans
sugar Planter Il portion of letter from
Messrs. Mccall Bros, and IL synopsis o.
the remarks of Hon Duncan T. Kennel
read and submitted at the meeting O
planters and merchants held i'm New
orleans Oh the 25th Of January to con.
slider tile advisabilty of establishing q
Sugar Exchange in that city. Messrs
McCall Bros. wrote as follows:
We much regret it will probably be out of ou1
power to attend the meeting but take this occa-
sion to say that we have a lively interest in the
success OF the purposes for which it is to be
| helu. We believe 1t is of very great importance
to the sugar planters that the want of room and
protection on the levee, and the acknowledged
abuses Of sales of sugar and molasses should be
put an end to, that this most desirable end has
| been too long delayed, and that q simple and
substantial remedy will be furnished in sales by
sample, ana the fostering aid Of strong and
welcome this move will support it al all times
| and give it such aid as is in our power. Should
you th1nk proper, you at liberty to- use this
| letter, and state our views
In response to loud and repeated calls,
MT. kenner arose aud said:
l have been selling sugar on the levee since
i85t, and have never had but one opinion OF
, me ieyee. l have always looked upon it as a
slaugnter.house. lLaughter). | have had sugars
70 arrive IN the evening and have been COM
pcllei to sell them early in the morning at q
sacr1fce Ii you go there on wet day It viii
nearly st crlVe you crazy. began to calculate
my losses. You know when you want to buy a
Iot OF sugar you wait for rainy day; you go to
the leVee to your broker and ask his price He
nsils you osc or TIC and you wait till you see
another mans drays carry the sugar off, You
ask what he will take and he answeres 624c or
nc apd thus lose 1sc. 1t is not tile loss of the
&c but tho reduction of the price TINT detracts
, nou say wv, why don you store sugar? If you
move sugar from the leyee, you move tkGm out
OF o. the market. have tried it often and found
that my experience. The system of sugar-selling
In a. I,p tas H; Is most defective one.
AS Tor rice, may say something on that sub
Jcct, as am somewhat of rice producer. The
frst year | went into the rice industry, when |
Shipped to market asked my merchant what
was tiie system III vogue because, as | was new
~ NY business, know nothing of the manner
ot effectlng sales. The answer was by brokers,
some producers had two and as many as five
a brokers' these 60 around and sell to buyers;
don t blame him for it either as would do the
same. But the result would be injurious to the
producer. Wouldn't it be better to have n CEN
1ral PLACE where man could buy on sample?
mat Is the system We should have for rice and
mat IS the system we should have for sugar /
never mad lot OF sugar returned because it was
SUD It dld not agree with the sample. Don't
you soil cotton by sample? There is occasional
false packing, but out Of tie millions of bales
ii'af are annual ~ produced. how many do Won
ind falsely packed2 Perhaps fifty, certainly not
more than twice that amount. Ii YOU can trust
the cotton men can't you trust the sugar plan
ter! VINO are the best customers in buying
sugar: HE Western produce men. You sell to
the western nun and he sells to you, and neceg-
saFity the best place to deal with him is at his
own Exchange. There is one important fact
that wish to call your attention to. Before
the war, and up to 1850. the mass of the sugar
Was in'de In open kettles. In 1886, and
thereabouts, there was sugar shipped In
the meantime, during these few years of war
ana consequent ;batlng OF the sugar industry 1;
change had taken place III the taste of tho peo-
pie or the North and West They had become
USED to clarified sugar and since then that par
tlcular industry has been on the increase You
see on the legea a half dozen establishments
where syrup sent from tbs country is granula-
ted. Tins IS on a growth and kettle sugars have
lost tfclr hold on the public. Another fact far
ieachi!'g IN us consequence, Is this | was as
tonSheti the other day to find list of planters
VINO refused to ship sugar to New Orleans any
longer, on account of the injustice shown to the
handling OF their produce dEi the levee You
are losing customers every day. Twenty plan
t"rs Of my acquaintance have determined to
where they can get better treatment say the |
present system of selling sugar and rice is in |
curious to the commercial i.f OF e;ts of Nc.y Or
leaaS.