The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-01-21
SUGAR sQulBs.
Items of Interest from Field and Factor,
in Ascension and Elsewhere.

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in Ascension and Elsewhere.
The weather man must have opened
bottle-or a barrel-of liquid air
somewhere around these diggings last
Saturday night and by the time the
thermometer had finished its acrobatic
stunt Sunday night "a degrees had
been reached. Tuesday and Wednes-
day were warmer and Wednesday
night heavy rain fell. Thursday
morning was cloudy, but toward noon
the skies cleared and the weather since
has been ideal.
The amount OF cane ground at Nc
Call & Legendre's McManor factory
was 1885 tons, cut from 430 acres,
and the sugar output totals |, $50, 600
pounds of firsts and seconds, showing
averages of 28.8 tons of cane per acre
and 125. Is pounds of sugar per ton of
cane. r. Englade, formerly of Evan
Hall, is the new manager of McManor.
with - Gros, formerly of Linwood,
as his assistant.
The sugar output of the Belle AL
lance factory was 7,250,000 pounds,
instead of 1000, 900 pounds, as given
in last weeks Chief. About So, 00e tons
of cane were ground, the aver age yield
of sugar per ton Of cane having been a
fraction under 140 pounds.
The Palo Alto factory of the Lemann
Company, Limited, is still in opera
tion and will probably be at work
until the middle of next week. 1t was
expected that the seasons labors
| would be brought to a close during the
early part of this week, but later de-
velopments set aside this hope and
rendered it necessary for the factory
to continue grinding for several days.
At $50 O'Clock a. m. last Sunday
the machinery in the Godchaux Com
pany's mammoth Reserve factory, in
the parish OF ST. John, came to a stop,
after having been in operation S3
days. The enormous total of 131, 522
tons of cane were ground, from which
Is, 183, 900 pounds of first sugars were
produced, leaving 1.60O, 900 pounds of
seconds in the hot rooms. The first
sugars are classed as 96-degree test,
and the average obtained from ton
of cane was little over $50 pounds
One mill lost two days and two nights
by the breaking of roller shaft, bus
apart from this the season was smooth
and uneventful. Octave Melancon and
Chas. Ledoux presided over the triple
effect at Reserve, while Victorin
Melancon and Vic. Suarez looked
after the sugar boiling.
At Hon. Henry MeCall's Evan Hall
factory approximately IS, 800 tons of
cane were sent through the mill, which
included the Evan Hall crop and
cane from Lone Star, in ST. Charles
parish, as we'll as a portion Of the
Souvenir crop bought of the Lemann
Company, Limited. The sugar out
put was $3.50, 900 pounds OF frsts and
seconds, in round figures, exclusive of
the thirds left in the hot rooms. A
little less than 131 pounds of sugar
was the average obtained from ton
OF cane. One new tenant, Ant. Curse,
will cultivate tract on Evan Hall
this year, and Michel Jorda will be
employed as overseer of Farm No. 2
to replace r. Englade, who has gone
to McManor as manager to succeed J..
A. Norman, resigned. These are the
only changes that will occur in the
Evan Hall managerial or tenantry
corps.
Figures from Capt. John T. Moore's
Wauban factory, in the parish of
Terrebonne, show that 3S, 500 tons of
cane were ground in 70 days with a
49-foot Whitney mill, giving an aver
age of 487.2 tons per day. Twenty
three hours constitute a days run at
Wauban, one hour in each twenty
four being devoted to cleaning up.
The sugar output was $500, 500 pounds.
the average of sugar to the ton.of
cane having been l53 pounds. Among
the Donaldsonvillians who filled posi-.
lions at Wauban were Frank Dun
ming, chief engineer; Louis Camel, as
sistant engineer, and Henry Robert
son, assistant sugar boiler. Edgar
Lear, of ST. James, was the efficient
chief double effect man.