The Brunswick times-call., 1901-05-29
SUGAR CANE INDUSTRY
ITS REVIVAL IN LOWER COUN.
TIES OF GEORGIA PROMISES
GREAT RESULTS.
ITS SUCCESS IN THE PAST
The Famous Hopeton Plantation In
GlyHn COMPREHENSIVE Results
Achieved There Years Ago.

Achieved There Years Ago.
The Department of Agriculture has
made constant and earnest efforts to
bring about a 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
shadowed 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 lsa9there was built on
the plantation of James Hamilton Cou-
per 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 Agricultural Of
Charleston. s. g., to be decidedly the
best plantation that he had ever visited.
Here the raising of cane and the manu-
fRcture therefrom of syrup and sugar
gave the most satisfactory resulta
Sir Charles L. I'll, the distinguished
English geologlst and scholar, who WIS.,
tied Hopeton IN 1846, 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 Yves sold
for scrap iron.
This noted plantation Is in Glynn
county, 8 miles by water from Darien,
16 by land from Brunswick and Is miles
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 a new book on Sugar Cane, published
by Captain D. G. Purse of Savannah,
Ga This useful little work has at.
tracted the attention of "The Louisiana
Planter and Sugar Manufacturer, a
weekly paper of New Orleans, La, and
the leading sugar journal of the world,
which in a 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:
lit may be that Georgia will again
engage in 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. y
To these happy predictions of an ed
ltor living in the great city Of New Or
leans, the commercial center of vast
sugar industry, may be adGei lie sill
more encouraging fact that section OF
southwest Georgia has for several years
past been furnishing undoubted proof
that Georgia has in her power tho abil
ity to add new crop, which will pou,
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
anu III luftHeFBHCe Oh tniS 6nQ ne II
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 az
complished a. formed conception
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Concerts. is the new Sousa March,
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