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Show v Jkm SUGAR NEWS. & w At otherg s,c Ug Tlio following Is a Gcriiinu'u itlcn. ol our sugar industry. Tho Lehi factory, Ulnli, Marled in 1801, in n cenlro where ItficMont rnlna; consequently, without Irrigation, beet ciiltivntloit would bo Impossible. Ily exhibits In local fairs the farmers were leil to bcllevo they liiul fortunes nwalt- Ing them. D.ila tnlicn from circular' of seed merchants promialni; yields of 20 tons per ncro with 10 per cent sitgai yield ncro not uncommon. Anyone nt- tctiiptlns; to obtain such results would linvo eoon learned he had boon deceived. Tho practical nverago being 8 to 10 tons to the ncro, to work 25,00l) tons pel a in palpi, thcio wcro 000 f.irmcrs culll- vntlngbeptH. When Hcnrcity of water occurfyjho entire crop bccoincsn failure, llccts ol first campaign only showed 10.0 per cent polarization mid nn ncrage purity of 77 percent. The campaign o I J 892 gave beets averaging 1 l.'J with 81.3 coefllcieiit of purity. Whilst these roots appear to be satisfactory, tho truth Is, tho greater number of them wero too small, and had n withered appearance. Tho farmers appeared to be delivering tlielrjjcctn at times that most suited them, but as tho faclory.was anxious to ' . obtain tho roots it was obliged to make the host of tl.c situation. Large double-walled double-walled sjlos were built, the cold air being kept out by coko ash placed between the , wallu. ,"f lio pulps aro not utilized, btif m thrown into tho lake. In this reaped, therefort), the conditions wero no better than in Nebraska. Coal cost $2. CO, per ', ton, wlillo 1'eiiusylvania coko was 1U.0D 1 l'cr ton. Wsgcs w ere very high ; VI. per '- ,.' " diem for factory hands, it.50 for farm hand. The costol building tho factory including includ-ing tho bllds was more than $500,000. The freljjlit of tho machinery from tiem-.any to I.ehl amounted to if-15,000 - The u tiers arc chlelly rich Mormons. This factory possibly may in (ho end bo umbo profitable, owing to special State bounty .and tho distanco from other . Niijrnr centers. Tho freight on h pound of sugar from Now York to I.chl is lc mid from Ban Francisco 1 r. j so that tho factory can raiso the prlio ofslignr made just such amount (p.iy nuu cent per H.JJ.hetore fearing outmdu competit- " sr"Ti!uprK!o BS'iww4 urAvjfi.'j i. 7 c, If tlio State and Government prcm. him bo added, tlie factory reclovesabom 10 c. per pound for sugars, fluch establishment estab-lishment cannot ho considered as competitors with the murketa of tho world; tho small population of Utah will not consume thu production of this ono laetory ; hence thero is no occasion for a second factory. Germans need not fear competition from that source; thcroaro oo many difficulties jet to overcome. |