The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-09
SUGAR FROM CANE SYRUP MADE.
Refinery at Savannah and What
May BE Expected

Quitman, Ga, July Editor Moaning
News: I am much pleased TO note the
great interest being manifested in this en-
terprise by all classes Of our citizens To
the city, as well as the country, in which
cane con be successfully grown it means
redemption. AS stated in a former article
the converting of syrup into sugar has
long since passed the experimental stage.
The refining Of syrup into granuated SUI
gar is one of the most profitable manu-
featuring industries in the United States,
particularly so when the raw material is
at hand as viii be the case at Savannah.
There is no danger of the sugar trust ever
making fight on a syrup refinery. Their
only hope lies in a high protective tariff
on refined goods such as The beet sugar
from Germany and elsewhere Raw sugar
may be cheap and yet VIE not and cannot
bear the profit of the refined goods made
from cane syrup. This being true, why
not make refined sugar from that which
VIII afford the greatest profit to the re
finer? Think for a moment what a vast
territory Savannah will have to draw
from. Stake a line from Pensacola, Fla
TO Augusta Ga. and you will about reach
the northern boundary of the cane grow
ing section in Georgia and from Pensacola
east and south TO the point of the PENN
sula, and you have all that part of Florida
which, for the time being, will find an
outlet at Savannah for their surplus
syrup. OF course, after the everglades
are drained and made accessible. that part
of Florida will of necessity be well sup
Piled with sugar refineries on account of
its adaptablity and fertility of soil But
long before that time Southern and East
ern Georgia win be producing enough sur
Plus syrup TO require the services of sew
eral refineries of the capacity of a $500 600
MA hat he
ket for their syrup; this Savannah can
supply, and once assured, the production
win go on and on I'D infinltum.
By way of depression, l think it ad-
visable to enlighten President Mackall of
the Georgia Construction Company, who
has brought the matter to the attention
of President Williams of the Georgia and
Alabama Railway. l first wish to thank
him for The interest manifested in estab-
fishing a sugar refinery at Savannah. This
makes it clear, to my mind, that he Is
a gentleman of large and comprehensive
views of what the immediate, not to say
inevitable, future portrays.
As to definite facts to be ascertained
as to the cost of a plant, the probable
quantity of the supply, the cost Of refn-
ing and the probable quantity and quality
of sugar to be obtained from a given
amount of syrup" Upon all Of these
points / have given the most definite in
formation Obtainable from actual results.
But will say that when I am called to
Savannah to meet interested parties I
expect to be accompanied by a gentle
man, whose practical experience in sugar
making extends back for years, and has
been rich and varied. And better than all
he has been a very obserVant man, of
fine intellect and strictly reliable. From
him you may expect to gather all the In
formation pertaining to converting syrup
hot F.n -,
gather from practical test or otherwise
The question has been asked upon what
l base my estimates of seven pounds of
sugar to the gallon of syrup. My answer
is, upon actuaities-statistics and other
reliable information from the highest
sources where the experiments have been
tested. But will repeat that while the
estimate is 80 cents per 100 pounds as a
general average cost of refining South
Georgia and Florida syrup, the cost to
include the product from the northern
boundary Of Georgia, where cane can be
grown, will not exceed $l.O0 per 100 pounds.
Sc then L VIII say six instead of seven
pounds per gallon. Such a house turning
out 10000 pounds of refined sugar Qhe
minimum) would net $l,540 daily, and If
only run 100 days during a season Will
clear not less than 100000 per season.
whereas the refineries in the North ana
west work upon an expected profit not
70 exceed halt cent per pound, and more
frequently less than a half cent than as
much, which shows profit to
them Of $500 per day or
net profit of $4,000 per season of
$50 days. These calculations are based
on a 100000 plant with an output of only
100000 pounds of refined sugar per day:
whereas 10000 pounds is near the mark.
Ihey are intended, however, to show the
proht OF a sugar refinery when syrup Is
the exclusive product used, over the re-
ming OF raw sugars. In a comparative
sense raw sugar pays but little Except in
aggregation and the result must follow
as a consequence that when sugar refine
RES are established a Savannah, near the
sugar cane fields, for converting syrup
INTO sugar, there will be little trouble TO
locale all the capital at Savannah need
tul, TO meet the growing demand for other
rehneries as well as the increased product:
which Will, in a very short while, increase
&c enormous proportions.
In order to give the interested parties
VINO contemplate erecting a sugar re-
huery at Savannah an idea of the immense
profits there is in a refinery, l will state
that the American Sugar Refining Com
pany Is capitalized al three times their
investment and has a surplus of $50 100000.
ana stin, Notwithstanding, pays 1919 per
cent. dividends-or 97l5 per cent. on the
actual investment. This is a big subject
when taken through It's ramifications, and
l can say much more If desirable.
Jacapl, Vsrlr,,p