The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-10-29
SUGAR sQulBs.
Items of Interest from Field and Factory
Progress OF the Grinding Campaign
in Aseensfon and elsewhere.


Progress OF the Grinding Campaign
in Ascension and Elsewhere.
The sugar planters are being favored
with the finest kind Of weather for the
harvesting of their crops and as q re-
suit the grinding campaign IS progress
ing at very satisfactory rae. Dur
ing the past week the weather was
clear and cool and indications are
that this condition will be maintained
,, for some time 80 come. Rain has not
fallen for many weeks aud the dust IS
fast becoming a nuisance.
The big Belle Alliance refinery was
closed down Thursday morning and
the field force of the plantation put to
work windroWing. The machinery
will be started up again this evening.
From reports extremely satisfactory
results are being obtained at Belle
Alliance.
Col. J. s. Webster's Cofeld factory
got off Thursday morning under Ia
vorable circumstances, and SO far
nothing has occurred to delay opera
bions.
At the St. Joseph Planting and Man
ufaetnring Conpany's factory IN ST.
James parish 800 barrels OF sugar were
turned out as the result OF a four-day
run last week. The yield is reported
as being satisfactory, with the juice
weighing ST Beaume. Yellow clarified
is the grade Of sugar being manufac-
tured at this place and it is estimated
that the seasons output will aggre-
gate two million and d quarter pounds,
requiring the machinery to be in
steady oper alton until the 18th OF ] an
uary. Gale Chapman, of Donaldson
vile, is the efficient chief engineer at
the ST. Joseph plant, while Ed. Wa
guespaek and Rene Simon attend to
the sugar boiling. Labor is plentiful
and everything is running we'll.
D. Ohlmeyer, of Donaldsonville, left
Wednesday afternoon for A. Wilbert's
Sons Myrtle Grove factory in Iber-
VILE parish, where he is engaged as
sugar boiler. Mr. Ohlmeyer was ac-
eompanied by his son, Ollie ohlmeyer,
Paul Wilheit and number of others
who will be employed at the Myrtle
Grove this season. The factory got
under way Thursday morning.
At Evan Hall factory the juice is
weighing II Beaume, with yield OF
100 pounds of frsts to the ton. Twenty
two tons OF cane are being secured per
acre. The early part of the week was
devoted to wIndrowing at Evan Hall.
Everything is running smoothly at
the Miles Planting and Nj anufacturing
Company's big Houmas Central re-
finery. At this place only one grade
of sugar is manufactured and last week
lao pounds we're obtained to the ton.
The cane is yet green, but is ripening
RAPIDLY. The factory closed down
Wednesday and Thursday in order to
allow the field force time for Windrow
ing, and resumed work yesterday
morning.
The record run in the history of the
big Salisbury refinery was made Tues
day, when 1870 tons of cane were sent
through the mill in q hours. Last
week a delay OF about thirty hours
was caused at Salisbury by the break
ing of some part of the machinery, but
the damage was easily repaired and
the mill was kept in operation Sunday
ia order to make up the lost time.
The Palo Alto factory of the Lemann
Company, Limited, is obtaining LIT
pounds of first and second sugars to
the ton, and il the field l6 tons of sec
ond-year stubble are being secured
per acre.
The advent of the grinding season
has interfered materially with the har-
vesting of the cotton crop, and in o
number of localities there is a good
deal of the feeey staple yet re-
naming in theefelds. This is particu
larry the case on the various places Of
the Lemann Company, Limited, where
the hands were taken out of the cotton
fields and put to work cutting cane.
Up to date something over 400 bales
have been turned out by the Lemann
Company's gin on Peytayin planta-
tiau