ANNOUNCEMENT. 
We learn from reliable sources that The Oxnard Sugar Construction and 
Development Company is to be incorporated, to devote itself to the developing 
of the sugar growing and producing industry in this country. The officers of 
this Company will be:— 
HENRY T. OXNARD, President, 
JAMES G. HAMILTON, Vice President, 
W. BAYARD CUTTING, Treasurer 
S. D. Schenck, Secretary, 
WILHELM BAUR, Chief Executive Officer and Consulting Engineer. 
This Company will have its headquarters in West Virginia, and will 
commence business, if we are informed correctly, in the early part of May, 
having a branch office in New York City, at 32 Nassau street. The aim of the 
Company will be to assist in every way the development of the sugar industry 
in this country. It will establish various departments, such as an agricultural 
department, and a construction department. These departments will thoroughly 
investigate questions of climate and soil and will give directions in growing 
beets, cane, etc., etc. Testing beets, water, soil and all supplies necessary for 
the process of sugar making, the investigations will be made by expert agricul- 
turists familiar with the raising of sugar plants in this country. The construc- 
tion department will propose to undertake the entire building of factories com- 
plete in every respect, and will be prepared to guarantee their capacity. This 
Company expects to be able to undertake the full equipment of a newly built 
factory with the necessary officers and men, and run the factory, if desired, for 
the first year. 
It will be a headquarters of general information, and will invite consulta- 
tion on all questions concerning the industry. We congratulate our country, 
and especially our farmers, on the formation of such a Company, with such broad 
aims. Their work will be done only by men of high experience and responsi- 
bility. The industry of sugar producing is comparatively a new one in this 
country, and only a few people are familiar with it. Therefore it is one of the 
best features of the new Company, that they will not only furnish the necessary 
machinery, seed, etc., but also the experienced men who will assist in planting 
and producing the sugar. 
The names of the officers are a sufficient guarantee of the ability of the 
Company to do its work. Mr. Oxnard and his brothers have been successfully 
connected during their lives with the production and manufacture of sugar in 
this country. Mr. Hamilton has been Secretary of various sugar factories 
since they have been in existence. Mr. Baur has been twenty years in the sugar 
business in this country, and is also very familiar with the business abroad. 
We wish this Company success, and with their success, our farmers’ prosperity. 
HERBERT MYRICK. 
