The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-06-23

lIlliS fOuScI3 tWu JOuuS ACn iAom OnA"
came down to Louisiana to look at the
country They were farmers at home,
but farming in Ohio was not paying bus
mess then, and it did not promise to be-
come any better. They went over on the
Bayou Teche, and were charmed with the
country. So pleased were they that they
sold out at home, bought very fertile
plantation called aShadyside,' - and went
to work. 1t is not generally known out of
Louisiana that the annual record Of all
the large sugar plantations has been care
fully kept for nearly seventy five years. An
intending purchaser can thus tell just what
a place has been doing for more than half
century. These young Ohio farmers whose
names are Foos and Barnett, have caught
on to the sugar planters methods most
successfully. They produced two years
ago 3,04S, $50 pounds, and last year 4 $780,
900 pounds. The crop of last year, with
out the bounty, sold for S250,000. The
bounty was 100000 more. The cost of
making this crop, everything included, was
about $4,000. How long would they
have been in making this amount at farm
ing in Ohio? One more Ohio case, if the
reader will allow.
John Dymond lived at Columbus. He
was wholesale-grocer there. His health
gave away, and he came to New Orleans
to reeuperate if he could. He travelled
about the State, and fell in love with its
charming rural beauty, its Creole tongue,
and soft, healthful climate. So he bought
two great estates about twenty-five miles
below New Orleans, on the mighty Missls-
sippi river, of course. In the past two
years he has made 5,750,000 pounds of
white sugar on them. Being rather new
at the business, it cost him 20 per cent.
of the price for which he sold his crop to
make them. He has received in bounty
in the last two years about s125,000.
Senator Don Gallery (who was elected
to succeed the late Randall Gibson as
United States SENATOR made in his sugar
house on the Teche two years ago, 6,l44,-
816 pounds of sugar. Lewis S. Clark,
young Kentuckian, came to Louisiana some
years ago. He preferred a rural to a city
life, so he purchased a charming place on
the Teche. He EARNED it a little, as he
said to his friends In 1891 his crop was
5000, 900 pounds, and last year about the
same. Clarke says he is not surprised to
hear that farmers boys in Louisiana do not
quit the family plantation to go into towns
and to become clerks and bounty jumpers.
John I. Moore, of Chicago, is another
millionaire from that city, who was tired
of facing the winter winds from the North
as they blew swift and strong across the
lake. So he purchased winter home on
Bayou La Fourche, which he called Wau-
bun. He, too, is planting little, just
for amusement" He made 100000
pounds last year, and expects 100000
this if nothing happens.
Twenty years ago Cakes Ames and his
brother, Frank, of Boston, bought the es-
tate of B. Laureant Millandon, consisting
of 5000 acres, and within cannon shot of
New Orleans. On it are two of the best
sugar plantations in the State. They made
last year $4,000 pounds of white sugar,
The Ames brothers have lovely winter
residences on them.
1t is not often that Jewish agriculturists
are seen in the North and West. But
among the most extensive planters OF sugar
in the State are two Israelitish gentlemen.
Leon Godchaux, one of them, owned five
plantations, whose aggregated crops last
year were little over 10000 900 pounds
of white sugar. He received as the bounty
on sugar 100000. The LemaEp broth
ers owned four plantations, on which, in
1892 '93, they made 100000 pounds.
The estate of John Burnside, Scotch
Irish millionaire bachelor, who died a few
years ago, has made the banner crop of the
State for years Five of the places are in
a block-that is, lay together. They were
sold by the late Mrs. Gaines putative
father; Daniel Clark, to General Wade
Hampton (the grandfather of the present
General) in 1910, with negroes (about
l 1000 in number for S1,000,0OO. In
1850 Mr.. Burnside bought of Jean Bap-
tiste Armant, the celebrated Armant plan
tation, of 10000 acres, sixty miles above
New Orleans, on the river, and the pro-
perty belonging with it for S1,000,OOO.
He discounted his notes, making the trans
action cash one. The other places were
acquired by Mr.. Burnside. AT his death
he was the most extensive sugar planter in
Louisiana. The crops of these places last
year were 5,600,832 pounds Of sugar of
the finest grade, which sold for about ST.,
100000, the bounty being $4,000 for
each million pounds.
The most valuable single sugar planta-
ton in Louisiana is the Belle Alliance
place, belonging to lanes Z. Knock. 1t
is in the parish of Assumption, on Bayou
La Fourche, and contains about 5000
acres of tillable land. 1t made in 1891
4,747 1884 pounds, and last year 4, ool ,6f!
pounds. In equipment it is perfect, and
possessing a charming residence and spa
cious grounds, it is the model OF rich
planters home. 1t is one of the 'lucky
places" of the State, too, and made MIR.
Kouck's father, who also owned st. Emma,
a yery wealthy man. Next to this place
in value-and by some regarded as prefer
able-is the great Evan Hall estate of
Mccall Brothers, who have residence In
Philadelphia. The splendid property is
on the Mississippi river, beautifully situat-
ed, and with everything about it to make
it desirable. 1t made in 1891 4,151 800
pounds, and last year 1926, S42 pounds.
The State of Louisiana can easily make
all of the sugar the United States will con-
sumo. All the planters ask is the restora-
ton of the old-time tariff. By reason OF
this tariff the Louisiana planter received
So, $780, 900 more than he would have got
for his sugar without it, while the govern
ment received S57 100000. The planter
thinks this the fairest tariff that ever ex'
isted. for all classes help to pay it.