The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1901-07-11
SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY
ITS REV VA ~ LOWER COUN-
tbs %" EOE1tA PROMISES
o.irAl RESULTS.
ITS SUCCESS IN THE PAST
The amous Hopeton Plantation In
Glynn Oounty-Successful Results
Achieved There Years Ago.

The Department of Agriculture has
made constant and earnest efforts tc
bring about revival of the sugar cane
industry in Georgia. The revival has
come and promises great results This
industry has never entirely ceased, and
for the last few years has grown much
IN Importance.
Although Louisiana obtained her first
sugar cane from Georgia, this valuable
crop has in this state been so over
Swallowed by cotton and rice as not to
receive the attention which its merits
deserve. Yet in the lower counties
there is more money in sugar cane than
in cotton, and in this section the max
ing of syrup from sugar cane has doubled
In the last two or three years
As far back as 1929 there was built on
the plantation of James Hamilton Cou-
per a large sugar house, which at the
time of its erection was in advance Of
any similar plant In Louisiana or the
West Indies. This Hopeton plantation,
under the management of Mr.. Copper, a
gentleman of wealth and of the highest
culture, was declared by Editor j. d.
Legare of The Southern Agriculturist Of
Charleston, S. c.. to be decidedly the
best plantation that he had ever visited.
Here the raising of cane and the manu-.
facture therefrom of syrup and sugar
gave the most satisfactory results,
Sir Charles l.. I'll, the distinguished
English geologlst and scholar, who Wis.
tied Hopeton in 1S46. bore testimony to
the successful management Of the plan.
tation in every detail.
The cotton and rice industries after
the war so absorbed the interests of the
people of southern Georgia, that the
cultivation Of sugar cane was neglected,
and the magnificent sugar mill, once so
successfully operated by Mr.. Copper,
was allowed to fall into ruins, and a
few years ago the machinery was sold
for scrap iron.
This noted plantation is in Glynn
county, miles by water from Darien,
16 by land from Brunswick and l5miles
from the Atlantic ocean.
What Man Has Done Man Can Do
Again.
A full account of the Hopeton planta.
ton and its great sugar plant is given
in new book OH Sugar Cane. published
by Captain ID. G. Purse of Savannah,
Ga. This useful little work has at.
tracted the attention of 1.-The Louisiana
Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, a
weekly paper of New Orleans, La, and
the leading sugar journal of the world,
which In recent issue republishes Cap
tain Purses "Recollections of Hopeton
Plantation, with the accompanying il.
lustration Of Mr. Couper's sugar mill,
and utters these encouraging words:
ut may be that Georgia will again
engage III cane sugar production, and
the experiences of its own past, as re.
corded at Hopeton plantation, indicate
the certainty of industrial success.
should the experiment be again made. "
To these happy predictions of an ed.
itor living i'll the great city of New Or.
leans, the commercial center of a vast
sugar industry, may be added the still
more encouraging fact that a section of
southwest Georgia has for several years
past been furnishing undoubted proof
that Georgia has in her power the abil-
ity TO add a new crop, which will pour
untold wealth into her treasury and
into the pockets Of her people. Captain
Purse has recently interested United
States Agricultural Commissioner Viii.
son and DR.. H. w. Wiley, chief chem.
ist of the United States department., in
the sugar cane of Georgia and Florida,
end.in furthersnce of this end he is
gathering samples of soils to be analyz
ed for their sugar producing qualities
and as the cane natures in the fall
many hundred samples will be sent him
for analysis. Vastly more can be done
in this great state than man has yet &C
complished or formed q conception Of
Cassava.
Our excuse for speaking again of SUI
gar cane and cassava is thai the only
way TO arouse people to action on any
line is to continue appealing to them
and keeping them ever reminded Of
those things which pertain to their pros
perity. The late convention at Bruins
wick has aroused spirit of inquiry
manifested by letters received bv the
Department of Agriculture concerning
both sugar cane and cassava
When the farmers of southern Geor
gia go extensively into the cultivation Of
these two important crops, sugar mills