This is the inaugural issue of the Imperial Crown. The first issues contained feature articles explaining the processes of refining sugar.
This issue covered the importation of raw sugar, which at that time arrived at the Galveston docks (and eventually the refinery in Sugar Land) in large burlap sacks. Sugar mills at the source of the crop (whether it was Cuba, the Philippines, Dominica, or Louisiana) ground the cane, boiled the resulting syrup, and then crystallized it into a substance that appeared superficially identical to brown sugar found on store shelves.
The February issue, which I'll post next time, explained the initial step of refining: remelting the raw sugar, removing impurities, and preparing it for fine filtration.
