The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1902-04-26
Facts Concerning Cane Sugar
Production.


I the United States are furnish in !
letter to the New York ''PresS,"
" Walter j. Sutton, sugar plant
r Of HOuma, La The production
f cane sugar in the United States
5 confined to the States of Louis
ana and Texas. but the industry
s as yet not greatly developed in
he State of Texas, though there
s large area Of territory i'll that
State susceptible of being profit
lbly placed in the cultivation OF
sugar cane. Louisiana is the cane
section Of the United
having produced as much
as $50 900 tons of sugar in one
year-viz in 1894.
Annual production of sugar IN
Louisiana is about 100000 tons.
The sugar producing section of
Louisiana lies in the Southern and
cenral portions of the State and en-
braces twenty-five parishes, OF
hich fourteen are wholly cultivat-
ed I'M cane and are entirely depend
ent upon continuation OF the
cane sugar industry. These par
ishes have a population of 800, 900
souls, good American consumers,
buying everything they need in the
markets of the United States, and
spending all their earnings within
these United States. In the re-
naming eleven parishes, with a
population of about 100000 souls
sugar is the chief industry, and
the destruction Of the sugar in
dustry in this State would cripple
them beyond recovery.
! A large portion of the population
of New Orleans, the largest city
in Louisiana. and upon the Gul
Coast, is likewise dependant npOl
the domestic sugar industry, ant
this portion embraces all classe
and conditions; the banker, mel
chant, broker, founder, meta
worker, clerk, boOkeeper, mechar
ic, boss drayman, ordinary labor
er, in fact, all classes of men tina
3 go to make up the population G
5 large city. New Orleans is til
, center Of the sugar business {
: the State; most of the bankin
a business of the sugar section
$ done there, and almost all Of I'll
. loans that are necessary to carr
e on the sugar business of the Sta1
are made there; all of the sug'
s and molasses made in the State
: shipped to New Orleans for sal
u and nearly all Of the $4,000, On
: or $4,000, 900 realized annual
from the sale Of the sugar crt
| enters into the commerce of til
a city. In addition to the foregoin
l. the grinding or harvest seas
y when the best wages are paid al
d the local population is not sui
ciently large to move the ere
Is thousands of laborers are brOug
a from the cotton section Of Lou
Us lana and from the State OF NJ
sissippi to assist in the harve
At a reasonable calculation 7
~ = less than 10000 people are dire
II ly dependent upon the sugar
1t dustry OF Louisiana
W In the sugar section of Louisia
most of the factories are suppl
with cane raised by the owner
the factory, but much cane is II
ed by landowners who do not b;
ng a factory connected with their |
Is perty; this cane is sold by the
en-, of 1000 pounds, and the aver
md price paid is So cent per ton,
md each cent that prime yellow sn
sh- sells for, per pound, on the !
Ind Orleans market; thus when pr
bis yellow sugar sells for 81 cents
sh- pound, the cane raiser gets
ost cent K II (s2 97t) per ton for
to- cane, delivered at a factory.
a. On Louisiana sugar planta
of about 500 acres in cultivat
there are employed in the cult
ing season, which extends I
i q the 1st Of January to about
of 18th of October, somewhere in
at neighbOrhOod Of seventy
this hands. There are also empl