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Show CONVICTS TO MAKE SUGAR. Texas Decides to Go Into Manufacturing Manufac-turing Business. Houston, Tex., April 2. Governor Sayers and the penitentiary board have reached a decision on the matter of the erection of a sugar mill on the state farm in Brazoria county, which belongs I to the state, and is cultivated by con- I The proposition adopted provides for the erection of a 100-ton mill, to cost $268,500, and to be completed by Oct 15. The state has 2,000 acres in cane on" the farm this year, and will build a railroad from the site of the proposed mill to the Brazos river, in order to be in a position to take advantage of water transportation in moving the crop |