The Donaldsonville chief., 1905-01-14
SUGAR sQUlBs.
Items of Interest from Field and Factory.
End OF the Grinding Campaign In

Items of Interest from Field and Factory.
/ End OF the Grinding Campaign In
Ascension and Elsewhere.
/ For the greater part of the past
week the weather was more seasonable
for early summer than midwinter, but
the imam from up there got back in
the game yesterday and sent the tenn
perature whizzing downward just to
deep his hand in. Sunday. Monday and
Tuesday were warm and cloudy, with
occasional and on Wednesda ay steady
doWnpour set in durries of rain, and
continued almost without Interrupt
tion up to yesterday forenoon. Late
Thursday evening the wind veered
to the north and the mercury COM
menced to crawl TO the bottom Of the
thermometer, dropping about 80 de-
grees in tWenty-four hours. Near noon
yesterday the clouds were dissipated
and the remainder of the day was clear
and cold. Last night a temperature
several degrees below the freezing
point was registered, and the weather
this morning is cleal and bracing.
The roads are in bad condition and
business is almost at standstill as
result of the steady rain which fell
Wednesday and Thursday. It will
take several days of clear, cold
weather to restore the favorable con-
ditions which prevailed prior to this
weeks rainy spell.
E. Fl. Barton's ST. Emma got away
with the last stalk OF cane at O'Clock
p. m. Thursday and boiling was fin
ished few hours later. Palo Alto is
the only Ascension house still in oper-
alton.
The end of the rolling season was
reached at E. g.. j. Rocks Belle Al
lance factory, IN Assumption parish,
Thursday night. The sugar output
will approximate 1000, 900 pounds, ex-
trauted from about 81, 900 tons of cane.
Fred. Werner, of Donaldsonville, was
the efficient chief sugar boiler at Belle
Alliance.
G. B. Reuss' Germania factory fn-
ished grinding Tuesday, with a little
over 1000, 900 pounds of sugar as the
result Of the seasons operations.
About 18, 600 tons of cane were sent
through the mill, the yield of sugar
per ton OF cane averaging only Ill
pounds. Germania broke a crown
wheel during the holidays and was de-
layed nearly week by the accident.
The Belle Helene Planting and Man
ufacturing Company's Belle Helene
factory, on the east bank of the river
in the upper part Of the parish, wound
up the campaign Thursday of last
week. We have not been informed as
to the size Of the output, but under
stand that the results obtained were
satisfactory in every way.
A breakdown occurred last week at
Camille Alleman's Cosa Natural fac
tory, il Assumption parish, when the
end of the campaign was only a few
hours off. Mr.. Alleman promptly dis
posed Of the small amount Of cane re-
naming in his fields to the big Belle
Alliance factory and wound up the
season at Cosa N Natural there and then.
Il is expected that grinding will be
finished today or tomorrow at Dehon
& Prejean's Lula Central factory, in
Assumption parish.
Florian Michel, who was employed
during the grinding season as assist
ant sugar boiler at the Ashland fac.
tory of Caillouet & Maginnis, in Terre-
bonne parish, returned to his home
in Donaldsonville Wednesday, opera
tions at Ashland having been con-
cluded the day before. Mr.. Michel |
reports that 81, ,905 tons Of cane were
handled in eighty-seven days, the
sugar output being fraction over
Is, 900, 900 pounds. The campaign at
Ashland was exceptionally smooth and
unevensful, not a single day being lost
through an accident of any kind.
Besides Mr.. Michel, Dona1dsonville
has another worthy representative at
Ashland in the person of Arthur Le-
Blanc, who is the efficient assistant
overseer.