The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-03
WANT A REFINERY.
President Mccall of Quitman Bank
Gives His Endorsement.

The discussion begun in the Morning
! News by Mr.. Joseph TiHman of Quitman,
| for the purpose of arousing interest in the
| establishment of sugar refinery at Savan-
nah, has attracted general interest, both
in Savannah and throughout The southern
! section of the state.
A number Of communica lions on the sub
| ject have been received by the Morning
News and also by Mayor Myers, who has
displayed considerable interest in the
subject. Mayor Myers believes that a
sugar refinery at Savannah for the con-
verting of crude Cuban sugar into the re-
fined article as well as the refining Of
Georgia syrup and its conversion into
sugar, would be paying enterprise.
Among other letters received by Mayor
| Myers is one from President ]. H. Mccall
OF the Merchants and Farmers Bank of
| Qutman, in which the latter gives his
hearty Endorsement and gives his reasons
! for believing that the enterprise would be
paying one.
u am greatly pleased at the communi-
! cations l have seen in the Morning News
| about the building Of a sugar refinery in
| your city" says President Mccall in his
| letter Il also note with pleasure your
! interview on the subject l am fully. sat
isfed that should such an enterprise be
| inaugurated in your city that ii would moi
| only be a paying inves tment, but that il
would bring as much business to Savannah
as the cotton crop of twenty years ago"
Mr.. Mccall gives as his reasons for this
| belief that the lands now planted in cot
| ton would in two years be seeded in sugar
| cane. He figures on an average of fifteen
] DDrrelS of IN he and estimates
| that this yield would return twenty bar
| rels of syrup for each bale of cotton on
! the same land all of which would come to
Savannah. Even at the rate of. fifteen
! barrels of syrup to each bale of cotton now
! raised in South Georgia. it can be seen,
| he states, what an immense quantity Of
| syrup would come to Savannah.
There arc shipped from this point
! about $3.50 bales of cotton" says Presi-
| dent Mccall, land you can readily see
! what an amount of syrup could be put in
I your city from this county alone, proYid-
| ed the farmers could get from Is 10 e
| cents per gallon here. Now, to come to
| some facts in the case, I will say that l
! have a ten-muie farm and at the price
| for syrup named I would not plant another
| seed of cotton at twice the present price
of cotton, and 1 try TO farm for the profit
! there is in it. We can make thousands
of gallons of syrup in this county al less
/ cost per acre than We can cotton, and it
would net a fair profit at the price named.
/ DO push the enterprise. 1t will be our
! salvation"
| President NTcCans closing words show
| low much Importance he attaches to the
! subject. There are doubtless hundreds Of
! farmers in South Georgia who are anx-
| iously hoping that the agitation begun in
! the Morning News VIII result in the es-
| adjustment of a sugar refinery at Sa-
vannah that they may be furnished a
market for a product which promises I'M
der those circumstances, to be far more
profitable than cotton.