The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-08-20
SUGAR PLANTING IN MEXICO.
Labor Abundant and cheap-Mills Ran
Sin Month8-CImate Favorable
and Profits Large.

Inc following interesting report OF
an interview with a well-knoWn Louis
ianian who has embarked IN sugar
producing enterprise in Mexico, is
taken from the Times Democrat OF
August Is:
&C. O. Freeman OF I4ecompte, La,
vice president and manager of the San
Juan Sugar Corporation, returned
Saturday night from the state of Vera
Cruz, Mexico, and is registered at the
St. Charles.
"Mr. Freeman's mission to Mexico
was to superintend the dispatehing of
large shipments of machinery from the
Chetwood plantation, near Lecompte,
to the factory sight of his company at
Cuatotolapam, where, as has been
published, the San Juan company has
contracted with the Miller Plantation
Company of New York to erect sugar
mills, the plantation company binding
itself to clear and prepare sufficient
portion Of its 43,0oO-acr holdings to
furnish the San Juan company 100, 600
tons of cane annually.
tMr. Freeman, when seen by a Times
Democrat reporter, was elated over
the prospects of his company.
~ Mexico we can compete with the
world ia raising md refining sugar.
Everything is in our favor, labor and
climatic conditions. While mills here
can run only fifty days in the year,
the San Juan company will be able to
operate for six months. Where III
Cuba tz2ey pay 81 day gold, and
there is a scarcity at that figure, IN
Mexico we have an abundance of labor
at 80 cents a day, Mexican currency,
their board, with meat twice a week.
Cubans are obliged 90 export Their
sugar, while Mexico consumes 80 pee
cent Of its production and exports TIE
balance, it ts said, merely to hold up
She price at home, which last year was
from to II cents a pound Wholesale,
Mexican currency.
= There is littls labor required in
producing cane in Mexico, and where in
Cuba the. millmen pay the equivalent
of 5 per cent Of the weight of earn in.
sugar to the plantation owners, We in
Mexico ply but 3. On the whole, it
will prove splendid investment.
- My recent visit to Vera Cruz was til
see about dispatching the first ship
n1ents OF machinery up the San Juan
river TO the factory site, which is six
miles from the river and 10 miles
from its mouth. i have returned to
New Orleans to arrange for the final
shipment on the Mexican-American
steamship Nor Aug. q, when Herman
Doepp, of HomeWard, Ill, who will ~
chief engineer in charge, will accom-
pany me to the factory site.
Zone hundred carloads of machinery
will have been shipped BY Aug: 81,
sixty tons Of which is new. The six
miles Of railroad has been completed,
and 700 men are engaged il clearing
and preparing the land for cane, and,
Notwithstanding the rainy season, the
work Is progressing favorably. e. ".
Weems is president Of the San Juan
company.
Mr.. Freeman spoke Of ca lie raising
ia Mexico being a tempting PROPOSE
ton, and declared that the Mexican
people did Dot realize what fortunes
they have In their grasp
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