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St Qroix Ans o «® G\ ‘ 75TH YEAR. CHRISTIANSTED. V. 1. U.S. A., WEDNESDAY. 17T MARCH 1920. sugars in large .jquaatiti2s. Taay have various machine: of their own for carry- ‘ng on their own particular work, and they can do just as well by buying the so- called raw or 95 cest sugar as by huaying the very tine sugars that have been pre- pared by the grear sugar refiners who pride themselv sso much upnn the ex- treme whiteness that they obtain by cireful boneblack filtration. [ was pre- dicted nearly foriy years ago by one of the gentleinen at the head of one of the present great sugar refining interests of the country that the refinin of sugars up to pure whites would be carried on at the place of production before the lapse of many years. Nearly forty years have elapsed and yet the production of white sugar in the tropics has not very mater - ally increased. Ir has been held down by the excellence of the work done by the sugar refiners and by the indiffer- ence in the tropics to the final results of sugar cane cultme and sugar cane manufacture, as long as they came out slightly ahead at the pd of the season. Modern lakor saving devices have helped to lower the prices of sugar and so materi- ally diminished the cost of production as to peri.it some profit at least to come to the ctual producer, even though the great sugur refiners eumbine as do our ather great monopolies, to erush the pro- ducer, finding that easier to aceomplish than to crush the ecensumer with high prices. In the city of New Orleans right after the U. S. Civil War, when the Louisiana sugar indus:ry began o rise {rom its ru- ins, there were probably a dozen little so- ~alled sugar refineries in operation in the city, where some enterprising merchants or engineers would have set up a single DEAFNESS And Noises In The Head. IF YOU ARE A SUFFERE—Go to your Local Druggist and order ‘CON- CENTRATED SOIURDAL,” p-ice 4/6 per tin. This New remedy gives almost immediate relief, and quickly efects a permanent cure. It penetrates to the actual seat of the complaint, and has completely cured many cases which were considered hopeless. If your Chemist does not yei stock ‘SOURDAL’, do not accep. any substi.ute, but send money- order for a supply direct to te ‘SOUR- DAL’ DISTRIBUTING CO., 8 STA- TION ROAD, CROYDON, SURREY, KNG., and a package/Wwill be mailed per return with full directigns. THE ST. CROIX AVIS | i 8 printed and publigshed daily (Sundays and Holidays excepted) by G. Joiransen | at the Avis Qffice. | TERMS---50 cents monthly in advance, 2 cents per single copy. 5 Entered as second-class matter May 26th 1917 at the Post Office at Christian- | sted, St. Croiz, V. L of the U\ S. A., un- | der the Act of March 3. 1879. | Contribution to this paper will be glad- x ly received when the same deals with mat- ters of gemeral imterest, and is accompa- | nied with the author’s name, as a quar- | antee of good faith. * The editor cannot be | responsible jor the views of his correspon- | dents nor does he necessarily endorse them. 1 T RGBT _EYTR LPIEN TRTN< S AT SO S eAT LRGSR TN,BIENGVENRE NGRS : | WHITE SUGAR EVENTUALLY; WHY | NOT NOW? | To any student or even to any casual , observer of the sugar markets of the | United States, it must seem very queer ] that now that we have reached March | there are still some persons who cannot | get an adequate supply of sugar to mcet | their current wants, and that the New | York refiners from day to day are report- | ed as ‘‘aliocai g’ sugar mong their | customers, not having sufficient suzar to supply the entire demand, and yet get- ting wide margins between the current prices for Cuba 96 test and the fine white | granulated that they are delivering. It ! would seeni tha. the exportation of sugar | is going on at high speed, ard in some | instances is called ‘‘refining on toll,”” and anyway he results are unsatisfactory to the American people. This has lead toa | large increase n the consumption >f ¢6 | Jest sugar and prominent sugar buyers ? all over the country have been led t» buy | t.ese sugars in Cuba for their owa ac- | count, and we can readily judge that | sugar of 96 test or pure sugar, of perhaps | 2 per cent moisture and 2 per cent nen- sugars, wili gi ea product that is fit for | almost any purpose other than wherea | pure white color is desired. The slight | caramel tinge that may attach io 96 test | sug r is not only injurious, but real- | ly improves the flavor, as good candy can | only be made at comparatively high i temperatures that will pring out the | light caramel flavor., The color may be | objectionable, but the flavor is there and | the genuine sucrosz is there, { Our great confectioners, our manufac- | turers of preserves and of various syrups | and our great meat packers all .aead No. 62. old Aspinwall centrifugal and bought low- priced sugars on the open market and washed them up into lighter or brighter and dryer sugars, reaching at times up to white sugar, and thus with these little miniature establishments, the whole out- fit of which wouid be less than $5,000, + they would turn out handsome sugars, and did reasonablv well. Vacuum pans were not then in very general use and these enterprising sugar refiners were compelled to buy soft or open kettle sugars and from 100 pounds of reasrnably gbod open kettle sugar . they would. not secure over 60 pounds of . dry centrifugal sugar. These soft grains . and the considerable washing required, led to these small yields. and the busi- ~ ness was soon driven -out of existence by the advent.of the larger refiners, who ~ proceeded more meghodically and with ~ filtering establishments and were able to sgeure much more final sugar. | Before .he advent of the poiariscupe in - Wall street, New York the old sugar re- . finers. went about looking at muscovada . oropen kettle sugars that were offered . by various brckers and by the sense of ' touch, feeling the harshness or sofiness | of the grain, and by their observation of . the dryness of the sugar they determined ' the intrinsic merit of the sugar of which ' the prominen: grades were ‘‘good refin- | ing’’ and ‘‘fairrefining,”’ the polarisco- . pic test not coming into use until about | 1870. , The recent sugar famine and the pre- . sent irability or unwillingness of the . American sugar ¢finer to supply the market with sugar, their preferences to export it, so that they may get great . profits on sugar as well as on syrup - made from freign sugars, place them . in a monopolistic position that would ' make a Chicago meat packer smile at . his own native innocdence. [f three or four people have ic control the more . ~ thap four million tons of sugars that ' “üba produces and that the United ~ States consumzs, i¢is time, for our in- | venters,* enteiprising merchants and . great users of sugars to get out of this ' labyrinth of difficulties. It can be done | by the individual producers, as is now | being done in Louisiana by the indepen- . dent sugar planters, and car be done by the purchasers ot the so-called raw . .sugars, by every preserve maker, every . syrup maker and every meat packer in ' the country, and. in fact, by the mer- ~ chints themselves wlerever they have . any power appliances which can readily : [ Continued on 4th page]