The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-02

4 SUaAR SQuIBs.-The mills at the South
wood sugar-house Of Messrs. Jno. Crossle
d Sons have not yet finished grinding tn
heavy crop of the Southwood and Riyersid
places, the work having been delayed b.
1 several breakdowns in the course of the sea
son. We believe Managers Lawless AMI
Doyal, and their assistants, Messrs. Bah
ington and Gautreau, will conduct grinding
operations 10 satisfactory conclusion
about the middle of January.
Messrs. Crossley & Sons Mt. Houmas
| mill is still going, but will cool down in q
few days.
At Messrs Kenner 4 Brent's Bowdon
sugar-house grinding was finished Wednes-
day night and drying on Friday. We
are informed thai the aggregate yield OF
the cane passed through this mill will reach
1,G0O, 600 pounds.
At Mr.. Beirns Riverton plantation the
seasons worka6as concluded to-day, with
an aggregate of $4,000 pounds of sugar.
Manager w. E. Bateman is to be congrat-
ulated on this splendid result.
At Conway place, belonging also to MI.
Beirne, work was finished a week ago, and
Manager J. NJ. Breaux. commonly known
as Conway Breaux," justly plumes him
self on the heavy yield of 100000 pounds.
Mr.. Bierne's Orange Grove mill was ex-
pected to finish its labors yesterday, and we
Understand that Manager Cochrane places
the yield at round million pounds. Glory
enough for Cochrane and Vanado! Owing
to the deleterious effects of heavy frosts,
there has been no white sugar made at Or
ange Grove since the 10th of December,
and the cane ground during that period
had to be cut very short for the mill, thus
materially reducing the yield that could
otherwise have been obtained.
At the banner Clark place the last cane
will 90 through the mill Monday. The same
drawbacks experienced at Orange Grove
operated to control the expected yield OF
the Clark crop, but Manager james K.
Tucker ought to be content with the sple'-
did total of 1875, 600 pounds. The Clark mill
will be used to help grind the sixteen acres
of cane still in windrow on the Donaldson
place. The Donaldson crop will give all
aggregate of 725,OOO pounds, according
to present calculations, and work here and
ut Clark will be finished i'll Il tew days.
Adding the foregoing figures to the yields
of MIR. Beirne's other places-aay 2,0Oo,-
09O pounds at New Hope and Ascension,
], 45O,OOO at Armant and Valcour Anne,
and l,1e2,OO at st. James Refinery, the
three last named places being located i'll
ST. james parish, the others i'll Ascension
we have Il grand total Of 9,207 900 pounds as
the aggregate yield of Mr.. Beirne's niue
plantations Counting the back and front
Armant us one place., an average Of more
than one million each.
MIR. Kenner's Tureaud mill is still rum
ming, we hear, and the crop of that place
will undoubtedly be very large one.
Mr.. james Teiler's crop can safely be
sci down at 100000 pounds of sugar and
1890 burres OF molasses.
feytavln mill is still going, but will come
TO s!and-till about Thursday next with IL
record of about 2,3OO,OOO pounds Of sugar
for the season.
Capt. Jn6. L. Nolan Informs us that the !
product Of his St. Elizabeth plantation was |
lOO, 900 pounds Of sugar and 657 barrels oi |
Inoltsses
We are informed that the yield at MIR. |
Soaring Iayor's st. Emma place WAS |
| ,OGU, 600 pounds, and at Mr.. Buckner's |
Crescent place, when grinding was finished |
this week, 1,1UO,OoVpounds.
Dir. w. Ii. Ballard is nearly through |
grinding at his Chatham plantation, and |
will make the splendid totai Ut so hogs |
heads.
1he big Germania mill of Mr.. Reuss was |
brought W IL stuudstiil about the middle OF
OI sugar mAde there.
Ali the places between here and DR.. Bal |
aru's are said to be through grinding, and |
their yields have been emiueitly satlsfac-
tory.
All the Salisbury place of Mrs. NJ. Israel j. |
Co., i'll St. James PARISH, grinding was fin |
shed the day before Christmas, and the |
yield was, in round numbers, one million |
pounds.
Work was concluded the same day OH
Clalborne's~ place, loerviie |
parish, where the yield was half II million
pounds. Twenty five acres of caue were
lost by reason of freezing weather.
Messrs. Trahan a. Dalgle II ,lde 40 hogs |
heats, averaging 1,DO pounus each, OH
their Aloysia plantation, Iberviie parish,
and got through last Monday. This sugar |
was the product Of only $50 acres of cane, |
hence the average yield was 3OOo pounds to
the acre. Messrs. Henry Lear and Robt
Duke of Donadsonville were employed i'll
the Aloysia sugar-house during the grind
ing season us engineer and assistant, re-
speclively.
Our valued young friend JAS. s. Wilson,
Esq, one of the tenants on tho Evan Hall
plantation, realized 333 tons of cane from
81 acres, meriLed reward for years hard
work. Friend Jim will remain OH the same
place the coming year, and we hope he will
do us we'll if not better than he did in 1885.
Mr.. Louis Duhon and his three stalwart
SONS cut 1920 tons of cane from the 80 acres
Of land they cultivated during the past year
on Mr.. Richard McCall's McManor plunta- |
ton. These gentlemen have leased the Jean
jacques Leblanc plantation, III ST. James
parish, for IL term of Eve years, and will