New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-09-10
HISTORY OF THE LOUISIANA
SUGAR INDUSTRY.
By Sarah T. Stirling in Taylor Trotwood Magazine.

The year 1749 marked an even
| that was to make a great change
IN the welfare of Louisiana. Thi,
was the planting of sugar cane
by Jean Etienne de Bore. and tn,
Iresult-the first well granulateC
sugar Others mad tried the
Jesuits, 1851, Dubril, a wealthy
planter, Mendez and Soils had
given some extension to the plant
inc of that reed, :" zone of them
boiled its juice to syrup; the 9th
er distilled it into a spurious liq-
uor Of a very inferior quality
called taffia.'
Bore was born in Kaskasia, in
the Illinois district, on December
81, 1741. His father was Louis
de Bore Of an old Norman family
his mother was Therese Celeste
Carriere de M0ntbrum. Robert
de Bore, one of the Counc ilors
and a Steward of Louis XIV
household, was one Of his ances-
tors.
Etienne Bore received a mill
tary training, which may account
for the self-reliance and firmness
Of his character. He married, in
l771. the daughter of Destrehan,
ex-treasurer of Louisiana under
French dominion. Etienne de
Bore settled presumably on his
wife's plantation in St Charles
Parish and later exchanged it for
one about six miles from New Or
leans, which is now Audubon
Park on the upper limit.
Against the earnest solicitation
Of his wife and friends, who
thought the climate too cold for
TIE can, t. produce sacchanine
matter Tough to be profitable, he
! ug?t quantity Of seed cane,
and commenced to build his su-
gar house. A gentleman named
Morim. who was in New Orleans
from San Domingo. went to see
Bore to eXpostulate with him, but
being inspired by Bore's firmness,
asked to be his sugarmaker, and
his was the first voice to cry out
in Louisiana. cit graduates. F"
These words rang through Louis
ana. The first crop was one hun
dred barrels. He sold his sugar
for twelve and a half cents per
pound and his molasses for fifty
cents a gallon, and made profit
OF twelve thousand dollars. This
was in 1895. Etienne Bore died
on his plantation twentyGDur
years after the first crop was
made, leaving each of his three
daughters one hundred thousand
dollars.
Bore was the first Mayor Of
New Orleans, 1903, the grandfath-
er of our historian, Judge Gay
are. These things happened dur
ing the gracious rule of His Ex-
cellency, the Baron de Carondelet.
| have taken the facts from Pro-
lessor Alcee Forter's "History
Of Louisiana.
Much curiosity has been felt
about the quite small and old SUI
gar kettle turned bottom upward
on the campus at the Louisiana
State University, Colonel j. w.
Nicholson tells me that was the
kettle used by Bore. Exactly
who gave it to the State of Louisi-
ma he does not recall, but it was
the property of the State. and
was in the Capitol grounds until |
he civil war. During the war it i
vas used by Mr.. Dent, the broth
,r-in-law of General Grant, to
make rum in. Afterwards it was
bought at auction, or sale of old
ron, by MesSrs. Hill and Blackie,
respectively of West and East
5aton Rouge, for their new foun-
Try, but. knowing its value, they
I'D not break it up, and in 1890
r 81, at the solicitation of Col. 1
Nicholson, then president of the
University, Mr.. Blackie gave it to
he Louisiana State University (;
nd Col. Nicholson had it placed
n the little mound where it now '
! 1t is to be regretted that
here is NO tablet marking its his I
Dry. Il
| have to write this in little I
hapters. as memory comes back |
aom childhood Of the "Suoar l
louse," up to the present time.
-fter Bore's time. from the Tun- u
a Hills to the Gulf. the sugar {
aking season was one of de-
ghtful festivity. The very heart 6
it was on the coast about Baton I
onge and even down among the I
'ange groves of the lower coast, Il
here NANNY" would dip c