The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-12-18
SYRUP Refinery
OFFERED THE CITY
BY FARMERS union
OPPORTUNITY PRESENTED FOR
AN INDUSTRY OF VAST
IMPORTANCE.
S5O,OOO.OO is TO BE INVESTED


able Railroad Facilities. $4,000
Stock Subscription REQUIRED.
Hattiesburg has an opportunity to
secure another large manufacturing
plant, one that in many respects
would be most important and would
go a long. ways toward the develop
ment OF the cut-over lands of South
Mississippi. This industry is syrup
refinery to be built in the near future
by the Farmers Union Warehouse
company of Mississippi, and will rep
resent an investment of $4,000.
President T. w. Carter of the Mis-
sissippi Farmers Union, is in the city
today for the purpose of giving Hat
tiesburg a chance to secure the plant
and a meeting of the members of the
Commercial Club and business men of
the city will be held in the club rooms
this afternoon, when Mr.. Carter will
place the proposition before them.
Today he is comforting with the bust
ness interests and those who would
be most benefited by the plant being
. established here. The Farmers Ware
house Company proposes to put up
$4,000 If the city will subscribe a
like amount of stock. The Warehouse
Company has the money ready and
so far as it is concerned the plant will
be established and in operation posi-
lively next fall. Jackson wants to Sc
cure the refinery and there is no ques-
ton that it would readily subscribe
the necessary amount of stock, but
the Warehouse Company wants Hat
tiesburg to have it for two reasons :;
viz: 1t is the logical location for the
plant, being more nearly in the cen
ter of the cane growing belt of the
state than any other place with like
railroad facilities.
The benefits that would accrue to
Hattiesburg and vicinity from the To-
cation of this syrup refinery here
would be untold. In the first place it
would give the farmers a guaranteed
market for all the syrup they can
make, thereby relieving their minds
of the problem what to raise in the
face of conditions brought about by
the boil weevil S depredations, and if
there is section of the south pecu.
' liarly adapted to the growing of sug.
ar cane it is right here in the coun.
ties of South Mississippi. Then it
would be a constantly growing and
developing industry, for the Ware
house Company promises to buy every
gallon of syrup raised in the state
and as the acreage and production in.
creased the plant would increase its
facilities. The plant will be in opera.
ton the year round, giving employ
ment to large force of workmen
thereby increasing the payroll of the
city and benefitting every line of busi
ness.
Probably the greatest benefit tc
come from the location of the re-
tinery in Hattiesburg would be in the
colonizing of the fertile cutover
lands, on which experience has shown
the finest cane can be raised, which
will net the farmers as large
prohts per acre as any other
crop. Therefore with the plant es
tablished here the people with lands
for sale could go to a prospective set
tier with stronger inducement than
they now have to offer, in that a
sure and profitable crop will find a
sure and profitable market right al
home. Mr.. Carter Is advising the
farmers wherever he goes in the state
to plant sugar cane another year and
the Warehouse Company will pur
chase every gallon of it. The farm
~ ers are therefore vitally interested in
cIthe proposition and a large number oil
them are expected to meet with the
business men of the city and Mr.. Car
ter this afternoon. Mr.. J. A. Quick
president of the Forrest county Unior
is enthusiastic for the establishment
of the plant in Hattiesburg and has
worked up considerable interest
among the farmers of the county
many of whom are ready to take stocl
in the company.
The farmers of Lincoln county