People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — SUGAR BOUNTY $7,580,000. [ARTICLE]

SUGAR BOUNTY $7,580,000.

The Crop Which Has Just Been Harvested Estimated at 189,500 Tons. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 3.—The sugar crop has been harvested and marketed. Nearly all the sugar houses have closed. The crop is estimated at 189,500 tons, which will call upon the United States for $7,580,000 bounty, as compared with $6,882,590 paid last year, an increase of 10 per cent, Although the crop has been harvested and marketed the planters have as yet received only $898,000, or less than 12 per cent, of the amount coming to them.