Perhaps, in time, we shall have large sugar-mills erected here as flour-mills are at the North; every man’s growth of cane to be manufactured for a fixed toll, or sold to the miller at current rates; but till then, the growth of cane for sugar must be left to men of capital.
Reid predicts the future establishment of large sugar mills similar to flour mills in the North, contingent on capital investment.
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