The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-15
THE SUGAR REFINERY QUESTION.
Large Rehnerics More Profitable
Than Small Ones.


Than Small Ones.
Sassafras P. o., Va, Sept lL-Capt. d.
G. Purse President Savannah Board of
Trade. Your letter received ana contents
noted.
II You propose establishing a central fac
tory you will require a large mill. clarl-
tiers. double or triple effect; vacuum pan
centrifugals, sugar wagons. juice, syrup
ana molasses tanks, a number of pumps
boilers and engines. With mill goes a
carrier with unloading device and per-
maps number of cane ears with rail-
road tracks going to the cane fields In
place Of mill a diffusion battery might
| be used, ana with it would be needed cane
! cutters and communications. Practically
! know but little of the distillory part as
! there are no distilleries among cane plant
| ers in Louisiana. Only one i'm city of New
! Orleans using mOlasses as raw material
The cost of above will depend entirely
! upon size and quality of outht The lar.
| ser the capacity of a sugar house the
| cheaper il can make sugar, This fact is
| driving small sugar houses out OF exist
| ence very rapidly in Louisiana and but
| Few of them remain to-day, the expense
| OF running them being too great for profit
! In their places are arising enormous sugar
| houses, using from 1000 to 500 tons of
| cane per day The intelligent clientele re-
| quircd in every sugar house is no larger
| and but little more expensive In a large
| house than in a small one. and the cost
! OF making sugar is reduced just as the
| output is increased. 1t would hardly be
| advisable to erect a sugar house with less
| capacity tnan 400 tons per day. Such a
| sugar house can be built and equipped
! with new and improved machin.
/ cry complete for about $780,
| go There are many houses in
| Louisiana, which have discarded machin-
cry Of this size (4OO-ton capacity for
I larger, and by an Intelligent selection of
! such discarded machinery. good in every
| way save capacity, cost of such a house
! given above might be reduced one-half.
! our sugar season opens in Louisiana in
| November, and | would suggest chat you
| and others interested visit some Of our
| mills and spend several days in studying
our methods before buying. | will take
| great pleasure in recommending YOU 10
/ various houses, and will, besides, aid you
| all / can in commencing that class of ma
| chiuery which experience has demonsuat-
| ed to he practical and useful
BY writing to any of the names given
| below, you can get estimates on the entire
! oc any part of a sugar outfit: Whitney
| Iron Works, Schwartz Foundry Haubt-
! man & Lock, John II. Murphy, Payne &
| Joubert, all of New Orleans, La.
| On account of short crop. due TO freeze
| on February last the above houses are
not fun of work and will gladly make you
! estimates on your visit to New Orleans.
| You can also see the dstillery and decide
| upon is utility to a sugar house. The
! present surveillance of United States rev
! enue officers and tax have prevented cree
| ton of distileries at our sugar houses
| Now to answer your questions:
! First. The cubic contents of a ton of
! cane cut for mill varies greatly, according
| to straightness of cane, size and length;
! also manner of placing them After being
| cut w finely, a cubic foot weighs from
lwenty-eight to thirty-two pounds, accord
| ing to- pressure. You may gain the in
| formation desired by learning thai the
| cane cars furnished by our railroa Is carry
| fifteen to twenty tons each.
Second. The small horse mill rarely ex-
tracts more than 50 to So per cent. of juice
| on weight of cane, while our nine 80 roller
| mills, with crusher in front, using satura-
| per cent. Diffusion obtains easily Sc to s.
| per cent. in a diluted form The average
| large mills o1our state will probably aver
! age between Is and so per cent. extraction,
| If you could visit our experiment station
| sugar house. where we have nine roller
mills and diffusion battery, and every mod
| crate improvement for sugar making, /
| could in a few hours explain to you more
! clearly sugar making, and machinery re-
| quired than by volumes of letters. How
! ever, | shall be glad to serve you when
| ever l can. | am writing this from my old
| home in Virginia, where / am taking a
few weeks of respite from labor.
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