The Texas Historian, Volume 34, Number 2, November 1973 Page: Front Inside
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The Texas Historian is published by The Texas State Historical Association, 2/306 Richard-
son Hall, University Station, Austin, Texas 78712. Issued five times during the school year in
September, November, January, March, and May. Regular subscription $3.50; club subscrip-
tion (five or more chapter members) $2.50 each. Second-class postage paid at Austin, Texas.
The Texas State Historical Association, 1973.
976.4 US ISSN 0022-6602
COVER PHOTO: Economically, sugar cannot be compared with the cotton, cattle,
lumber, or oil industries in Texas. It is, however, an important money crop to the
southeast coastal area. In the 1840's many plantations in this region were producing
small amounts of sugar cane, which the planters gradually increased and later built
sugar mills for processing the crop. Commercial sugar refining, however, was depend-
ent on a large slave force (fifty was considered a minimum), and since many planters
owned fewer slaves, sugar cane production was limited to a relatively few plantations.
Sugar production reached its peak in the 1850's and early predictions of Texas rival-
ing Louisiana in this industry were never forthcoming. The Civil War shattered that
dream. Of the thirty-one original sugar mills, this early etching of a sugar cane har-
vest in 1843 shows the only facility to rebuild following the war. After changing
ownership many times, I. H. Kempner and W. T. Eldridge, who acquired the property,
improved the production facilities and established Imperial Sugar Company in 1907
at the present site of Sugar Land. Texas presently grows relatively little sugar cane,
but by importing raw sugar its production continues to satisfy the Southwest's sweet
tooth. Courtesy: Imperial Sugar Company, Sugar Land.
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