The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-20
HATTIESBURG Will
HAVE REFINERY
BY NEXT FALL
LOCAL CAPITAL WILL BUILD
LARGE, WELL-EoUIPPED
NO OUTSIDE AID NEEDED
Farmers Union Warehouse Company's
Proposition Turned Down. CONNER
ciaI Club Has Busy and Harmon
ious Session.
70 OUTSIDE AID NEEDED

That Hattiesburg will have mod
ern, wellequipped syrup refinery and
canning factory, with ample capital
behind it, in full operation, was the an
nouncement made at the regular
monthly meeting of the Commercial
Club last night The good news was
augmented by the statement that
this refinery would be erected, financed
and managed by one of the
city's best business men, but no one
was at liberty at the time to give out
further information.
While the meeting was a regular
one. it was also arranged to deal with
proposition of the Farmers Union
Warehouse Company for the erection
of a syrup refinery and cannery here.
The proposition submitted did not ap-
peal to the club and was rejected. 1t
provided for an investment by the
Farmers Union Warehouse Company
of $4,000 in refinery in Hattiesburg
providing the business men of the city
would buy $4,000 of the Farmers
Union Warehouse Company's stock at
1875, the Farmers Union Warehouse
Company to have the entire manage
ment of the plant.
Some valuable information was
given out at the meeting regarding the
amount of syrup consumed in the Hat
tiesburg territory, the amount raised
here and the success of the refinery
business. President Jackson stated
that the two wholesale groceries here
had handled 30 cars of one brand of re-
fined syrup made in another state
within the present year. That this
syrup represented a wholesale value OF
$45,OO0. In addition half a dozen
other brands of syrup were handled
bringing the total up to considerably
more. He stated that these syrup re.
fineries, wherever established on a
large scale and well-managed, had
proven highly successful. One at
Montgomery is paying 40 per cent. on
its capital stock. Another, estab
lished in that city later, is also a well
paying investments. So good indeed
that still another is to be established
Mr.. Jackson said that cane raised
around Hattiesburg was much better
for syrup, made finer grade of syrup
and was heavier in sugar values than
cane raised in any other state, the
sandy loan land in this section being
especially adapted for cane culture
and producing extremely large yields
That while the syrup made here was
purer and of better flavor, the syrup
shipped in from other states being 10
per cent. glucose, there was either
prejudice against Mississippi syrup
even in Mississippi, or the people
were ignorant of its delicious proper.
ties, and this would have to be over.
come. Mr.. Jackson impressed the alb.
solute necessity of the refinery in or
hCi lItlI a maj hNl III > III bG lui llollth
the farmer for his product. He proph
esied that the refinery would be biz
financial success, and that the raising
of syrup would be highly profitable
to the farmer, and could be handled
on the same basis as cotton, and the
farmer furnished in advance by the
merchant on basis of the number o.
gallons he would raise each year.
Mr.. W. S. Thompson, local represen
tative of E. A. Cummins & Company
stated that while his company was no
in the refinery and canning business
: yet they realized the necessity of I
market for the farmers they wer,
bringing to this section, and had be
gun plans looking toward the estab
ilshment of a refinery and canning
factory here; but they had gone onl,
Continued on Page Three.)