The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1891-07-25

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ton of cane at the least cost for labor,
fuel etc. \ Central making only $50
pounds of sugar per ton of cane can
not pay as much for the raw material
as wnere 200 pounds are made, yet the
cost of production and delivery to the
cane grower will be the same, and he
must suffer financially if compelled to
sell his canes by the ton to the Cen
trail where defective machinery is
operated. Were it possible, the pro-
ducels of the canes should be financial
Il interested i'll the Centrals where
J their canes ale bought. as each would
be Watciiiul that the other delivered
good canes OF high saccharine strength,
and they conformity would he solicit
tons 20 always secure the most impr~v-
cd apparatus. ANA the best technical
control possible by which alone can
the btstIesults lie had.
The operate Central establishments
where alone such results can accrue, it
is generally conceded that narrow
! gnage taiiro IDS 70 insure the prompt
II economical delivery Ct the canes
are almost absolutely Indispensable.
The cost Of sncl roads will be more
than compensated tor by the increased
value OF each property through which
they pass, and the interest on the ORR
ginai outlay will be more than paid by
the charges for the transportation of
passengers AID ireights. Our people
must look the situation squarely in
the face. and contemplate how they
are 70 successfully complete with other
fnuqtri.s ,yiiat4 tIay- ,,n,+ 10 ,,nIn.,
they can keep space with the industrial
progress Of the age. To supinely sub
init to an extraction of only 80 per
cent OF juice from the canes when 9TH
ers are obtaining SO per cent, and stri-
wing for a still greater amount, and
getting in many instances only 100
pounds of sugar per ton of cane when
200 should be had, is notonly TO tempt
bankruptcy. but certainly insure 1T,
unless more r~enunaerative methods are
speedy adopted.
The State contains thousands ofacres
OF land lying west of the Mississippi
river, and north of Lafayette as far as
the Red river, and the Florida parishes
Oh the east, where hundreds of millions
of pounds of sugar can be made.
Those lands which have and can be
made to produce a bale of cotton to
the acre, can be so cultivated as to
yield 20 tons of cane. In the western
parishes there is an ingress of northern
farmers engaging in the cultivation of
rice, and it is to be hoped the time is
near at hand when thousands will be
induced to seek homes here. tempted
by the genial climate in this southern
latitude, and engage i'll tie production
of sugar. But in the Immediate future
every effort should be made by the
popniace Regardless of'ocatlon1 TO Sc
cure the requisite capitll to erect Cen
trails i'll the most desirable localities.
The future prosperity of the delta 1t
would seem ~dependson the successful
production Of sugar Ii recognizing
the fact that the mior portion OF the
machinery now in use IS comparatively
valueieSS. efforts should De
made to supplement it with such as
will prove most renumeratIve. But
few localities in he State are as we'll
or bette adapted as Il site for a Cen
tral Factory tha2 this our country seat,
and capitalists would do well to il yes
tigatr Its many advantages. such as its
watsr, and railroad facilities, the
proximity OF large area ofland (much
q which has never been inundated by
lie crevasse waters of the Mississippi
river within the memory of the eldest
.nhabitantsJ where many thousand
-ons of cane tower 100, 000) are annual
y produced, and where the quantity
,an be largely augmented were "a home
market created for the sale of canes
which would be grown by tenants and +
small land owners.
One OF more available sites are in
lose proximity to the corporate limits
# tie town, where transportation and
facilities can be rendered
Tery economical.
BY the conioint action of the cane
growers, who by thorough cultivation.
ind intelligent fertilization will pro-
the raw Material rich in sugar,
md the proprietors of Centrals who
will be enabled to extract and manu-
the maximum of products
heretrom, it is reasonable to concede
hat sugars will ultimately be produc-
d at a profit without the aid of toun-
y or tariff, but time must be had to
olive the complex problem.-Houma