The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1910-12-24
SUGAR sOUIBS.
Progress of the Grinding Campaign in AS
ceusion and EIsewhere--Items of In
terest from Field and Factory.

ceusion and EIsewhere-Items of In
terest from Field and Factory.
The present week witnessed the end of
the grinding campaign at a number of
factories in this neighborhood, and by
the end of the next seven-day period prac-
tically all of the mills hereabout will have
completed the seasons labors. So far as
our information extends. the only sugar
making plants in the parishes contiguous
to Ascension that will still be pegging
away after the advent of the new year
are the Murrell Companys Tally-Ho in
Iberviile, the Colonial Sugar Company s
Gramercy in st. James, and the Godchaux
Company's Reserve in St. John and Elm
Hall in Assumption.
The ST. Joseph Planting and Manufae-
turing Company's st. Joseph factory in
St. James parish ground its last stalk of
cane of the 1910 crop at Ii o'clock a. m.
Friday, Dec. Is, and boiling was finished
at o'clock the following morning. The
sanity establishment handled approx
imately 9460 tons of cane and turned out
something like 100000 pounds of prime
yellow clarified sugar, exclusive of the
by-products stored in the purgery and
tanks. Gale 7. Chapman, of Port Barrow,
put in his tenth consecutive season as
chief engineer of the st. Joseph mill. and
as has been the case almost without ex-
ception since his incumbency of this i'm
portant post. the factory operated with
remarkable smoothness and efficiency dur
ing the entire campaign, not moments
time being lost at any stage of the game
through accident to any part of the ma
cfinery. Rene Simon, of Feitel, again Of
ficiated as chief proof-stick manipulation,
and, as usual, held down this responsible
position to the entire satisfaction of all
concerned.
The Chief is unofficially informed that
the big Salisbury factory in upper ST.
James ground this season $4,000 tons of
cane. in round figures. and produced there
from about 100000 pounds of first sugars.
Mrs. E. Bartons ST. Emma factory ter
minated the crushing season on Saturday,
Dec. 10, after a smooth and uneventful
campaign. We have been unable to OBJ
tain an accurate estimate of the output of
tits wef1-appointed mill. but as St. Emma
never fails to make first-class crop I'M
Ter the intelligent supervision of Manager
Factory Superintendent Chief Sugar
3oiIer and General Charge dAfaires K.
A.. Aucoin. it may be taken for granted
!, aat this years figures are right and
y ill compare most favorably with those
r, corded at any other place in this section
of the sugar belt.
Harry Weber. a popular young Donald
sonvillian. returned Friday night of last
week from Lafayette. where he was en-
ployed throughout the grinding season as
chief electrician of the mammuth La
fayette Central Refinery This mill wound
up the campaign on Thursday, the 18th
inst, turning out approximately 9.5O0,000
pounds of first sugars.
The Belle Helene factory shut down
about o'clock last Sunday night, after
getting away with approximately $4,000
tons of cane which yielded in the neigh
borhood of 100000 pounds of first sugars.
Of the aggregate amount of cane sent
through the rollers of the Belle Helene
mill, nearly one-half-or, to be exact,
about $4,000 tons-came from the Oakley
and Monticello penal farms in Iberville
parish operated by the board of control of
the state penitentiary.
The Belle Alliance factory in upper As
wound up yesterday morning
and the Mccall Bros. Evan Hall mill in
this parish finished at O'Clock a. m. to-
day.
The Lemann Companys Palo Alto house
is on the home stretch and will get
through today or tomorrow
Heavy frosts were recorded on Tuesday,
Wednesday and this morning.