The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-11-27
SUGAR HOUSE NOTEN

Inc fADulc Factory d MeSSrS. hent
q Well sustained Il serious set back
last week in the breaking Of the shaft
OF a roll. The roll had to be sent to
Orleans for repairs which neces-
STATED q shut down of several days.
The Waverly Plantation of Hon.
W. y. Howell has been making good
Roadway from the start, no hitch of
any kind having ever occurred to re-
Tara the progress of the grinding
operations. Waverly has made to
uate about 1,450.O 900 lbs. Average
yield per ton to date is 40 lbs. The
cane is somewhat green but the Weld
IS family satisfactory. The tonnage
is good.
Leighton plantation Of Majoy G. La.
garde experienced some trouble last
week by the breaking. of a turn-plate
and knife, It shut down for two or
three days, but started again last Mon
day morning and has been running
smoothly since. Major Lagarde has
made some improvements on Leighton
this year, having put up a set of Lilley
double effects and a Demminp Ma
chine. The latter works well and the
double effects also gives satisfaction.
everything is working smoothly at
the Lafourcle Refinery and on Laurel
Grove plantation. At the latter
place, however, it owners Messrs.
Irosclair & Robichaux, experienced
some trouble last week, some twenty
odd OF their white laborers having quit
them upon the entry of some Mississip-
pi laborers. The laborers who quit
were afraid of the yellow fever and
a~pprehended danger from contact with
the newcomers. 1t was impossible to
reason with them, and to assure them
that these men would neverh have been
admitted into the parish had there been
the least danger of infection.
A visit to Acadia will p ones
trouble. Major w. Fl. Price is in chape
OF the place during the Hon. Andrew
frees absence, and is we'll seconded
by the manager, Mr.. J. Scott Williams
Acadia has a good crop this year. and
the grinding operations have proceeded
satisfactorily from the start. This
place can boast of having one of the
finest and best mills and engines in the
State. Both are brand new, having
been built expressly for Acadia during
he year by the Birmingham Machine
and Foundry Co. The mill is a six
roll one, double, geared, with rolls six
and a half feet long by %thirty-four
inches In diameter, and massive steel
shafts. The mill has not vet been
tested to its full capacity as there has
not yet been a sufficient supply of cane
TO feed It's full measure. The engine
is a giant corliss with a twenty-six |
inch diameter and five foot stroke !
cylinder. and a sc, 900 Id driving wheel. |
The whole runs as smoothly as a small |
electric machine. causing scarcely any |
vibration While in motion.
Major Price and Mr.. Williams are |
highly pleased with Acadia.s new
machinery, and are awaiting it's own
er's return with fond ANTICIPATION, as
he has not yet had the opportunity of
seeing it. being kept away by the
yellow fever. Acadia is managed by
a home crew from the sugar maker
down, Mr.. A. j. Michelet being the
efficient boiler; Messrs. Thomas and
Joseph Jeffries, Constant Rossignol
hold forth in the mill and engine de-
paftment; Mr.. p. A. DeManade runs
the blower and attends to the burner.
whereas Messrs. Emile Bergeron, Au-
bert and Joseph Hebert and other
residents of this town, white and
oAoSA. hlug LO oCCl DIT W0Ih dill Ub6T |
and about the sugar house. Acadia
buys cane this year from the Bayou
Boeuf country and other points along
the Southern Pacific, and we hear
that it contemplates entering largely
next year into the business along the
Blue Settlement.
Greenwood Plantation. the fine
estate of Mr.. Ernest Roger, has been
running without a hitch this year
since it first steamed up. Much is
due to the fine management of Mr..
Thomas Fl. Roger who attends to the
business of the place for his father.
MI. Roger has had to bring i'll hands
from Mississippi to complete his ne
complement but experienced
no difficulty i'll also keeping his home
hands. The only drawback this place
has felt so far is the serious illness of
Nj: Il. l.. Gaiennie, its head-engineer.
Mr.. T. +. caillouet of Orange Grove
every thing in tip-top shape
Dn that plantation. The yield is sat-
sfactory and it is expected that the
place will turn out a larger out put
than it yer did before.
The st. James plantation of Messrs.
Edward Caillouet Il Co. is also doing
we'll. The owners expect to wind up
III this place III a couple of week or
0. !.
We reserve RienZi. Laural. Valley
other plantations for next weeks
totes. !