The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-11-02
SUGAR sQulBs.
Progress of the Grinding Campaign in As
cension and Elsewhere-Items of In
4a-nsf 9rar,, Field and Eraetr,rx,.

ter0st from Field and Factory.
The weather this week didn't even
approximate the kind best suited to
the present needs of the sugar plant
ers, and it is earnestly to be hoped
that there will be change for the
better in the near future. Sunday and I
Monday were clear and warm, but
the mercury took a tumble on Tues
day and dropped several degrees, the
day being the freshest and breeziest
exoerienced this season. A steady |
rain fell throughout the parish prac-
tically all day Wednesday and the
temperature rose to above normal, |
causing the atmosphere TO become
positively sultry and wholly at va
rance with what is expected of it at
this period of the year. Thursday,
yesterday and today were alike as
three peas in pod, being partly
cloudy, 6tfully showery and alto
gether unsatisfactory and disagree.
able. incidentally, it begins to look
as though there'll be nothing doing
for the coal man for some weeks to
come.
Reports from the various factories
in this section are to the effect that
the grinding campaign is progressing
favora5ly and that the results, both
as to tonnage and sugar yield, are
about as good as can be expected.
Few complaints are heard regarding
ashortage of labor and most of the
plantation managers with whom The
Chiefs "squibsn man has had an
opportunity OF eonyersing stated that
they are blessed with an adequate
supply OF hands for all purposes.
The Murrell Company's Tallyho
factory in Iberville parish commenced
grinding Monday morning. and SO far
no accident OF any kind has occurred
TO mar the smoothness of the cam.
paign. Included in the factory staff
at Tallyho are two Well-knoWn Don
aldsonvillians who have been con-
nected with the house for number of
years and who enjoy most enyiable
reputation for efficiency. They are
VIM. A. Dill, chief sugar-boiler, and
Hubert Comes, chief sug ar-drier. Jos.
Landry, of New Orleans, is Mr.. Dill's
assistant.
Col. ]. S. Wedster's Cofeld factory
was scheduled to getunder way yester-
day morning, an earlier start having
been eschewed on account Of the imma-
ture condition OF the cane. Henry Bou-
dreaux will have charge of the engine
room during the season, with John r.
Barber, of Port Allen, as assistant.
S. Preisan's Half Way factory be-
gan the seasons labors on the 2lst
ultimo and is chewing up several
hundred tons OF cane a day in the
easiest kind of fashion. The princi-
pals of the capable field and factory
forces are: Felix Acosta, chief engi-
neer; Louis Landry, assistant: Luke
Landry, chief sugar boiler; Wallace
Preiean, field manager: Ned Maurin,
cane-shed boss.
The Miles Companv's New Hope
factory in upper Ascension crushed
It's first stalk of cane on Thursday,
Oct. "a, and has been pegging away
since that date with no interruptions
| worth mentioning. Dave Dill is hold.
| ing down the position of chief sugar.
boiler, with Leon Gaudin as assist.
ant, and the engine room is presided
over by W. E. Mavor, assisted by
| Archie Greene. L. A. Duplessis is II
charge Of the double-efect.
The Belle Helene central factory
started it's rollers to rolling on Wed
nesday, Oct. %, and its trans-rivel
neighbor, Germania, followed sui
next day. Louis Rome is cock o. the
walk in the sugar boiling department
of the latter mill, and John Parker
and S. ]. Aehee are ION the job al
chief and assistant engineer, respects
lively.
The crack Salisbury factory in up
per St. James got away on Oct. 2:
with the same crew in charge as las
year, except that Felix Aucoin, o
Plattenville, has replaced August Du
gas as one OF the assistant sugar-boil
ers.
J.. f. Oubre, of DonaldsonVille, Ii
manipulating the proof-stick at thu
Oakley factory in lower Assumption
and V. Alcee Rodrigue, also of thu
Ascension metropolis, is looking at
ter the double-effects. Bud Dill il
chief engineer.
D. Ohlmeyer left recently for vii
bert's Sons Myrtle Grove factory il
Iberville parish, where he annually
officiates as chief sugar-boiler durins
the grinding season. With such /
capable and painstaking sugar maker
i in charge OF the pan, 1t goes withou
saying that the syrup and molasse'
turned out at this house will command
top prices on the market.
i The ST. Joseph Planting and Man
ufacturing Company's St. Joseph fac
tory, in St. James parish, began work
Tuesday morning with everything
running like creased lightning
Gale T. Chapman, of Darrow, ii
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