The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-09-02


There's good time coming, boys,
And it won't be long coming.
Yes, that refinery is coming, anG
it's coming as soon as the dense
financial clouds roll by, which surely
ought to happen at an early day,
and the people should then get to-
gether and make an united and
strong pull, and the refinery will be
reality.
We have sailed one course and
then another, and nothing has been
accomplished. The reason would
seem to be because our efforts were
directed against insurmountable OBJ
stacles.
Consequently, it seems to us,
1t would rebound to our ad-
vantage to concentrate our ener
gies and direct them in a channel
that promises success.
The Gazette has demonstrated in
proceeding issues chat there is no
better investment than in a sugar
refinery, and it is particularly so in
Lafayette, when the possibility of
cane acreage is considered. 1t is
no stretch of imagination to assert
that within a radius Of six miles
at least SO, 900 tons of cane could
be raised. This would mean $780,
900 to our farmers, and the town
would receive the biggest share of it.
In our estimation it is the only
industry that would enhance, i'm
mediately, the prosperity of our
city. 1t would not only enrich the
town people, but the farmers would |
be much, a great deal, better off,
And the most encouraging feature
of it is that with little effort and
contributions sufficient to form a
reasonable bonus, it would be
reality inside of twelve months.
Other communities appreciate the
value of reflneries, and are making
strenuous efforts to get them, as
can be seen by reading the follow
ing taken from the Times-Democrat:
The people Of Iberia parish recognize
the Importance of central sugar factories, and ,
nave set about securing them in the right
way by offering liberal Inducements for their I
.
Iberia will raise splendid crop of cane
this year-the largest it has grown
and the outlook is SO good that there is talk 6
ot increasing the acreage in cane next year
IS per cent The increase will be even t
more, If the construction of central factories
assures the grinding of all produced.
"A committee has been at work in Iberia L
seeing what inducements can be offered T.
capitalists to construct the desired factories
here. The handsome returns secured by c
hose factories already in operation would =
me might imagine, be sufficient inducement
o capital to embark in this enterprise but fl
ne lberians offer great deal more. They ,,
re perfectly willing to give all .
he necessary ground for the factories and b
build Gig hit miles of railway by which the r.
ane can be conveyed to them from the
and the Police Jury has agreed n
= exempt any factory from parish taxation -
Or the period of ten years. =
these are certainly liberal terms, and We D
ave no doubt will be accepted. They are | :,
'lo to be under consideration in New Or -
:ans to-day. In the present financial strin- Ii
ency there will naturally be some let up !.
| the matter, but soon as the clouds -
ear away, which we may look for any day b.
lie negotiations will be reopened, and we =
ave little doubt that they will meet with -
lccess There is no better investment for
'Pltal than central sugar factory, as the >.
'perlenoe of those already in operation 10
lows. ~,