New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1917-02-24
LOUISIANA'S ADVANTAGE
GUS LOCATION,

| 10 the break III relations OetWGe
{ our own country and Germany
our Louisiana sugar planter
b ought to take note of the fact tina
III the production of high grade
Of plantation sugars, they hay
the advantage Of freight rate
from New Orleans to the leading
western towns in the Mississippi
Valley, lower than the freigh
rates from.New York to the same
towns. This at once gives then
a protection on their sugars a!
against the New York refners
who are using Cuban sugars, Of
from 30 to 80 cents per hundred
pounds, based upon the steamer
freight rates in Havana which are
given weekly in the letters from
+ our Havana office.
Some of our great sugar fac
tories have selling organizations
that reach throughout all of the
! leading cities in the West and in
! these cities there are hundreds of
buyers who buy the sugars upon
their intrinsic merit as we'll as
upon their appearance. Their APP
pearance must be fine in order to
attract actual buyers Of sugars
for table use. For preserving,
candy naming and meat preserv-
ing and any other manufacturing
uses to which sugar may be ap-
piled, the intrinsic merit Of the
sugar. whether it test 81 or %, or
90. becomes a matter Of moment
and the sugar is priced accord
ingly.
Our sugar planters, who have
their sugars refined in Louisiana
on toll, with a complete bone black
method, or those who wash their
own sugars white, can see the add
vantage which the present high
rate Of freight from Cuba to the
seaports gives to them.
1t is true that the Spanish liners
from Spain and touching
at Havana and coming through to .
New Orleans, have pressed down
the New Orleans freight rates to
so low point that even under the
war conditions recently prevail
ng we understand some contracts
lave been made as low as Is cents
per hundred pounds, while 30 cts.
It the same time was insisted upon
or New York and Boston. OF
course the New Orleans sugar re-
iners themselves reap this ad-
7antage as to them st. Louis,
chicago, Milwaukee Omaha and Il
,ther great cities are common''
POINTS to which they are constant
V shipping sugars from New Or
cans. They will reap all the ad-
'antage that their specially low {
ate from Havana gives to them I
nd our Louisiana planters in I
ompeting with the r.fners will c
cap. as protective feature, what
yer advantage there is in secur- 1
ng rates from New Orleans to t
oints in the West without pay S
1g any freight from Havana as t
he refners are compelled to do. G
In order to succeed in distribut- .
lg sugars in the West there must L
e an organized distribution and T.
ny one sugar factory of any size |,
competent to effect that. There S
re good brokers and those d
nxious to make money in almost u
very western town of any size '
nd they are glad to correspond q
18th sugar planters for direct c,
81
We would call the attention of u
lr planters again to the matter s.
sugar boiling in order to make o.
hite sugar. Large crystals look z
eautiful and brilliant, but not e.
IRE white. The larger they are III
lie more the crystals look like OF
eces Of glass. Hence in boiling p
n white sugar, while it is con- II
to get a good. hard "a e.
ain that will not wash away. it u
equally desirable to have the ~
aims very small. as in that way d,
e color will be very much OF
hitter. Our refners. it will be u
ted. restrict their sales of sugars u
" fine white graduated" when u
at kind Of sugar is old. The ~
)rd "fine" was formerly omitted pc
d the word Standard used VI
stead. but they are now using r
e word "fine," whcih covers
e size Of the crystal and is one
the main features of getting
ry white sugars. C.