The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1909-01-02
SUGAR sQuIBs.
Close of the Grinding Campaign in As
cension and Neutrality-suspicious. of In
+.ros, f,,,,, ErieI,3 and Factory.


A drenching, all-day rain-the firstof
any consequence since Sept. 26-fell
throughout this section last Tuesday
and was eagerly welcomed, not only
by the sugar planters Whose seed cane
was badly in need of good wetting),
but by the people generally, since the
: precipitation served to abate the dust
nuisance and replenish the supply of
drinking water for man and beast,
which had become very scarce as a re-
suit of the prolonged drouth.
The Miles Company's New Hope
factory in upper Ascension closed a
successful campaign on Tuesday OF
last week. Approximately "a, 900 tons
of cane were ground and something
like three and three quarter million
pounds of sugar we're produced. The
same company's Houmas Central fac
tory at Burnside terminated it's run on
Monday morning OF the present week,
having crushed 68, 900 tons of cane and
turned out upwards of ten million
pounds of sugar.
The last stalk of cane of the 1908
crop passed through the rollers Of the
St. Emma factory on Tuesday night,
the 22nd inst, marking the close of an
unusually smooth and successful cam
paign. The sugar output will ag-
gregate two million pounds of high
grade irsts, in addition to large
quantity of first. class molasses.
The ST. Joseph Planting and Manu-
featuring Company's ST. Joseph fac.
tory, in the parish of ST. James, fin
ished grinding on Saturday night,
Dec. II, after getting away with II, 600
tons of cane in the easiest sort of
fashion. The yield of sugar will be
in the neighborhood of one and three.
quarter million pounds, which com
4 pares favorably with the results OBJ
tained in previous good seasons. Gale
t. Chapman, of barrow, was chief en-
gineer of the sanity establishment,
and Rene Simon, OF Feitel, was in
charge of the sugar making depart
ment.
The Murrell Company Tally Ho
factory in Iberville parish brought
the trials and tribulations of the grind
ing season to an end on Monday
morning, and Chief Sugar Boiler Vim.
A, Dill has returned to Donaldsonville
TO resume the management OF his big
copper and sheet iron plant.
i D. Ohlmeyer, another well-known
| Donaldsonvillian and crack sugar
cook, is also at home again after
taking of the crop of the Wilbert
3 Company's Myrtle Grove place in ID
erville parish.
Grinding was finished at Landry &
! Dugas' Sweet Home central factory, in
| Assumption parish, on the 18th OF
December, and the work proceeded
from start to finish almost without &C
cident or interruption, as was the rule
throughout the sugar district during
the remarkable harvest season OF
10000 The Sweet Home rollers
crushed total of 46, $50 tons of cane,
of which 1915 tons were produced on
Sweet Home plantation proper, 1885
tons on Long Branch and $500 tons on
Cecilia, the remainder having been
purchased by the ton from various
cane planters in the vicinity of the
factory.
The big Belle Alliance factory, also
in Assumption, closed the season g
operation on December %, in good
time TO permit the crew to celebrate
Christmas under their respective roof
trees unrestricted by the depressing
necessity of partaking sparingly of
the good things SO as to be in order
for "going on watch" either at mid
night or next morning.
/ Evan Hall factory did not grind it's
last cane until last Saturday night,
the work having strung out a day
longer than had been counted on at the
beginning of the week. Boiling and
drying-out were brought to an end on
Tuesday Of this week-the contents of
| the hot room of course excepted.
Statistics as to amount OF cane han
died and sugar produced are not
| available, but it is generally believed
that Evan Hall did as well, compare
lively, as any factory in this section.
The crop was by no means as large as
estima ted at the outset of the grinding
season there being shortage both IL
| the matter Of care tonnage and sugar
| per ton, but the falling off vas GER
j tainly no greater than that noted on
most of the other Louisiana planta-
| tons.
| The Lone Star sugar plantation in
| St. Charles parish was sold this week
! by the Lone Star Planting and Manu-
/ featuring Company, Ltd, corpora
i ton composed of the stockholders of
! the Mccall Bros. Company of AS,
! sension, to L. A. Blouin of the firm OF
/ Libby & Blouin, Lafourche planters
who own and operate the Bush Grove
and Oak Grove places il that parish.
| It is not known as yet whether Mr..
| Blouin will arrange to transport Lone
! Stars cane to the Bush Grove factory,
or to have it handled at some nearer
| factory in St. Charles. The sale was
| consummated on Tuesday last, and
| the new owner has assumed possession
of the property.
j. Arthur Leblanc, the capable field
manager of the Ashland plantation 10
Terrebonne parish, spent couple of
days here during the week as the guest
| Of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Prosper
TARIane He returned To Tepfa hoppe