The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-14
UNCERTAINTY OF SUPPLY.
The Only Obstacle Now in the Way
of Sugar Refinery.


Mayor Myers who recently returned
from New York, does not bring lack re-
port favorable to the sugar refinery. While
in New York The Mayor gave some time
to looking into this question and discussed
the subject with some Of the .eading SUI
gar rafiners, outside Of the trust. He was
told that the conditions are not favorable
for the successful operation Of a sugar re-
finery al Savannah.
The main difficulty" said Mayor Myers.
is that there is no assurance Of obtaining
sufficient supply Of syrup 10 keep a large
factory in Oretat!on. There seems 10 be no
longer any doubt Of the avail ability Of our
syrup for sugar pro1ucing purposes, bat
The quss tion seems 20 be uircly one Of
supp y. AS susar refining is conducted on
very small margin, ii IS necessary that
it be conducted on q large sca.e and that
there be no lack Of material 20 keep the
refinery gVirg. ] found hat the principal
plants at the Ncrih are conducted on a
very large sea e, the Arbuckles having
erected, or bang about TO ere 1, an $3.50
barrel plart The reiners with whom |
consulted advised against anything less
than 1,W0-gatrel plant, and even this
they thought too small. 2W0-b1rrei pant
they cons derCd 10 be a much better iirau-
ciol venture than one with haG that ca
9ac ~"
Mayor Myers confess d that he seriously
doubted whe htr the syrup output for TITS
section would be sufiic ent 10 keep 100
barred plant running during even the win
ter season and for a successful financial
venture he considered that il would be re-
cessary for the plant 10 be kept rum ng
the great part Of the year
with the assurance of large supply of
material, / was informed" said the Mayor,
that there would be no difficulty in secur-
ing $4,000 to $4,000 capital for the en-
terprise provided our people would sub
scribe for about The same amount.
AS this assurance cannot be given
just now, l see nothing for our
people to do but to continue the
work of developing the industry on a
small scale until II has reached the point
where larger opera tons will be warrant
ed At present the syrup output is but
little more than sufficient for the local
demand and a heavy demand. such as
would be caused by the presence Of a re-
iinery, would send prices to q point where
there would be no profit in refining"
Editor X. NJ Martin of the Liberty Coun-
" Herald when ia the city yesterday,
was informed of the adverse report from
the Northern refners by Mayor Myers.
IF the ques ton of the supply of syrup
is the only thing that stands in the way
Of the refinery said Mr., Martin, this
stumbling block should be removed very
shortly. ! berty county alone can supply
10000 barrels annually and there are half
a dozen other counties in this section
which can do the same thing. The only
reason that more syrup is not produced
is because there is no market for It. With
the assurance of steady market, our
farmers would at once go heavily into cane
production for the reason that IL pays them
better than any other crop they can pro-
duce. The question of supply could be
very easily settled by obtaining guarau-
tees from sufficient number Of reliable
farmers to furnish so many barrels each
in case of the establishment of a REIN
cry"
The figures which the Commissioner OF
Agriculture has undertaken to gather as
to the acreage and annual production of
syrup i'm each county in the state should
be of value as throwing light in this
question