New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-12-24

Pd"N', u'uliii.t III Cotl'i1 ana ftff
though some little cane. too. Tn
new proprietors, however, J. |
Valet, the big Loreauville mel
chant and the King Brother,
New Iberia merchants. who tc
gether bought the estate for 436
600 last July, are going into tn
cane business r. ght. and this faI
seed was put down to the exten
of about 1875 acres. all most ex
,ccllent cane that should plan
close to five times that area 10
the coming crop. The propcrt
is comprised of practically all RE.
sandy land, and 50 protected frot
cold is this locality that there wa
virtually no bud killed by tn
late October cold snap, aftcl
whlch most of the seed cane wa
put down.
To send the coming crops TO tn
mills spur from the New Iberii
u Northern Railroad will be la,
from close to Loreauville, abou
four and a half miles long. to tax,
the cane from the Hoffman plan
tation and other fields passed OF
the way. and it is certain that tn
Segura Sugar Company which ha,
made contracts for this cane. will
secure around $1,000 tons next
year through the laying of the
spur, with fair growing condition,
ruling. The Segura Company. il
fact, are already in a position t.
secure some Of the crops from
along the way of the New Iberia
e. Northern. for it was only last
week that connecting spur was
run over from the nearest point on
the road to the Segura central
located along the main line of the
Southern Pacific.
To judge by the known ability
|of Wallet & King Brothers. it
seems safe to proheS.y that they
are to develop the Hoffman estate
into one of the largest cane pro
ducers in these parts, and the sur.
rounding cane growers. too, with
properties nearby the Hoffman
plantation who have been giving
limited cane deliveries to the Ma
ria Central in the past, stand
ready to take advantage of the
opportunity offered by the coming
of the standard railroad in their
midst to enlarge cane paintings
for the coming season Several
instances are to be cited of cane
growers who are to have more
cane next year than they had this
season, in fact reported as plan
ming to about double their areas.
they being Arnold Broussard, r.
Oubre and Dennis Messenger. the
former having raised some 100
tons this year, while the other two
had in excess of thousand tons
each. The spirit of go-aheadness
with cane cultivation is likewise
attested by many other small land
owners about here preparing to
grow more cane in 1911 on the
Bayou front and to the interior
Fausse Pointe country, and it now
looks as though the increase in
cane along the proposed New
iberia & Northern extension from
Loreauville back to Lake Dau-
terive and to the Hoffman planta-
ton ought to furnish around 25,-
900 tons for the railroad by 1912.
There is great quantity of
cane about here going to other
mills some miles distant, besides
10 the Maria and Vida centrals
that are situated in the heart of
he Loreauville cane districts;
about 5000 tons are going t. the
cent? al by barges over
he Teche. and there is a long
water haul given with some 10000
Ons this fall TO the Albania cen
raj, just below Jeaner'ette. The
after mill has been getting cane
rom here FOR three or four sea-
ons past, and each year is get
ng more, Loreauvilld crops
mounting to 1000 tons sent to
in 1909.
The Vida central es told in
hese columns last week. this
is getting around 49,, |
700 tons of cane hauled to that |
nill from immediate surround
ny farms, but the Maria central
, securing comparatively little
ane from right at home a large |
ortion Of the thirty-odd thousand |
ons being milled this year at Ma
ia was raised on the plantations
wned by Adrien Gonsoulin the re-
raining tonnage bought from
lany small planters up Bayou
'eche. This crop for Maria is
nderstood to be considerably in
xcess of what was milled during
he 1909 campaign, for though
OF visited and no information OBJ
lined direct, it was learned from
Inside sources that the past cam
align resulted in the grinding Of
ut $4,000 tons of cane at Maria.
On the road from Loreauville
} Olivier station, on the way to
lie Pharrs' Orange Grove central.
'varal miles below the Vida SUI
,r factory are three fields where
ce was the principal crop raised
lie current year; from Pliny G.
Talet, one Of the most progress
We planters in this section. who
Is a large threshing machine with
hich he takes care Of his own
ID two outside rice crops. it was
und on his Home Pace the 1910
,e production. the harvest fin
ned in September, averaged only
ven sacks on the 200 acres de-
ted to the cereal. but fortunate
before the harvest he had con-