The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-10
CANNOT ATTEND.
IMPOSSIBLE TO JOIN IN THE SUGAR
SYMPOSIUM.

cant. Purse IN correspondence
with Many Authorities on the
Questions of Cane Culture and SUI
car RefniDg-Big Outlay Necessary
IN Make the Business Pay-small
wills Not Generally Profitable.
cant. r. e. Rose Suggests Method
sor division of Profits Between
Grower and Refiner.
cant. D. G. Purse, commissioner of the
eavannah Bureau of Freight and Trans
rortation. has been lately in extensive
',rrespondence with number of the more
nroninent authorities in the country on
,,ne culture and sugar refining. with
,.iaw TO giving the public reliable informa-
,,on along these lines, so that investors
roipbt took before they leap and thorough
IL understand into what they are putting
their energies and their money.
If is refreshing to understand that the
rssust of these inquiries is almost con-
,incinc of the fact that sugar culture on
q large scale and the contemplated plan
Of erecting a refinery in Savannah would
weld large returns. But there is also evil
lsnce that 10 accomplish these ends would
rsoi1ire the expenditure of a considerable
sum of money and that a suitable and Iay
,pa plant cannot be erected at small cost.
II is the concurrence of authoritative opin-
ion that to make such plant probable
srsar must be refined in large quantities,
he relative cost being thus greatly re-
duced. ard that small refinery would not
m this connection it is a matter of re-
eret 10 Capt. Purse and to others who are
interested in the question that Secretary
Wilson has been obliged, because of his
many engagements to decline the invita-
lion TO attend the sugar sympos UNI that
to be held here in the fall that had been
extended him.
A letter from the Secretary of Agricul-
tlre has this TO say, after reciting the
fact of his many engagements and his
Inability 10 be present: I am the more re-
solved on this account because you are to
have DR.. Stubs. When the question OF
sugar cane comes up and DR.. Stubs is
rreseut most other people should keep
Quiet He is one of the ablest men in the
United States along this and many other
lines. and if you have him you really need
nobody else. Nevertheless, l would great
Nv eniov meeting you if it were possible
IN add another engagement to those L
have already made but that is impoSsl-
ble"
A letter from Dr.. Stubbs is also among
the many ON the subject Capt. Purse has
received 1t deals with the practical as
meets of the situation and furnished much
Gotta regarding the construction of mills
and the manufacture of syrup and of crude
and refined sugar therefrom. DR.. Stubs
deals to some extent with the question of
the relative amount of juice extracted by
the small house mills and the larger ones
IN use the refineries, and shows that the
latter will extract from 25 to 80 per cent.
more Juice from a given volume of cut
cane. This is one of the arguments in
favor of bringing the cane directly to the
mills, instead of having the farmer ship
the juice or the syrup.
DR.. Stubs estimates that a sugar re-
inery with a capacity of 400 tons per day,
can be built and equipped at a cost of
about 100000 1t IS evident, though, from
the tone of DR.. Stubbs letter that he re-
CARDS a larger mill as promising better
results and more assured returns upon the
capital invested. He agrees with the 9th
er authorities who have been written on
The subject and have replied to the queries
addressed to them that the larger the re-
fnery, the less the relative cost OF the
sugar produced, and hence the wider the
profits and advantages that may be de-
rived,b by those who invest their capital.
forcible and clearly expressed letter
from Capt. R. f. Rose, whom Savannah
ians will remember as accompanying Mr.
Joseph Tnlman, on the occasion of his
visit to Savannah, and delivering an ad-
dress on the subject of sugar before the
Board of Trade, deals with the proper
ratio of payment and profit between the
manufacturer and the producer of the
raw material. On this subject Capt. Rose
saws:
An equitable and mutually satisfactory
method is to pay one-half of the value of
The product of the cane to the grower
For instance, if the cane yielded 170
IF rrap Ia To bo fOT
which, selling at the rate of Sc cents per
pound would bring SO. So, the farmer would
get A.67 for his cane. On this basis the
share of the mill, less, say, so cents per
hundred pounds for manufacture, shows
a profit of $365 for each ton of cane
ground and refined. Handling syrup or
raw sugar an equitable basis is to pay the
grower 90 per cent. of the value of the
ielhed article made from his raw mate
na. Good average cane syrup, not sour,
VIII produce six pounds per gallon or
SIMULATED sugar, that, at the rate of 5la
cents per pound, would be worth SO cents.
oiAiY per cent of this would make the
Eio"ers share of the profits nearly 20
cents per gallon. If the syrup turns out
Ilener he gets more, if of poorer quail
tty, he gets less"
This system or method has always
proven satisfactory TO both grower and
manufacturer and is superior to an arbi-
ualE' nat figure. If sugar is high, DO h
The srower and the manufacturer get the
'gheHt; if low, the grower shares the de-
'luf with The manufacturer"
ant Pulse has recently sent to Com
missioner Stevens, at the 1atter's request.
"st OF questions that are 10 be sent out
10 me sugar cane growers Of the state, in
PaNpnlet form, and which they will he
i'Quested to answer. The information thus
,Y9s"t relates to the manner of preparing
-e SOIL ierti izers the kind of soil found
~ weld the "a gest GRO S Of care and he
t,1d'esi amount of saccharine matter, the
.'ea per acre on various kinds of soil and
70 other topics OF like chaIa ter 1t is
sApeeted that this Information viii be
,guNd exceedingly valuable and that lis
loHuiSauon from the Office of the COM
:" -. oner Of agriculture win produce ex-
,t"'at results When the time comes for
building Of the Savannah refinery
,..ie win be at hand al needed statistics.
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