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Show nf tf To Pages ThisIssne 10 Pages This Issue REACHES EVERY NOOK AND CORNER OF DAVIS COUNTY. VOLUME XI KAYSVILLE, LAYTON AND FARMINGTON,. UTAH. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7. 1915 LAYTON SUGAR FACTORY STARTS TODAY NUMBER 6 ON ITS INITIAL RUN n- - 4 A . r ' ! 1 1 I (.ill II 1 t! IIIHIIII! .W ,?(. , Lyton Sugar Factory fronfjihe north-wes- I t, showing fuel, lime rock and beet track, power house, machine - shop and lime kiln. X This is a red - letter day for forth the advantages of a sugar facLayton and th whole of Davis county. tory in Davis county. Among the inIt is the occasion of starting the ducements offered were the following: plant of the Layton Sugar company Aite for the factory of not less than on its first campaign of sugar making. 80 acres or as much more as the comFor several days the big plant had pany needed; 3,000 acres of beets been ready for operation, all the ma- would be grown for the factory; water chinery and appliances tested out and necessary to run the plant; fine clifinal adjustments made. Two thous- mate for beet growing and soil of urp-and tons of beets were in the bins and surpassed fertility; railroad facilities beet growers from all over the terri- and fanners experienced in bqp ('growtory were on hand with loads of beets ing; no county bonded indebtedness tor the factory and to see the wjieels and a low tax rate and apromise that the people would subscribe for stock go round. A general order for beet digging if so desired by the company. January l.y Ifig mass meeting in was sent out on Monday of this week. atManager James E. Ellison having de- the Farmepir Union hall, Layton, tended location committee composby layed the order to the last possible date in order that the farmers might ed of . P. Ellison, J.Will Knight and get the advantage of late growth in LeEoy Eccles, and almost every farmer in the vicinity. Meeting presided increased tonnage. over by Senator John W, Thomley. One year ago there was not apian made by representatives in Davis county who thought oT hav- Speeches all over the county north of from ing a sugar factory here attnis time, and by members of the loand when it was first talked of in De- Farmington endorsed per cation committee. Meeting cember of last yeary'fcinety-nin- e of committee letter presented to the cent of the people bought the propoof officers the sugar company. sition would end in talk. But there January 17. Meeting at the office was a combined force behind .the movement' that brought the project of the sugar company in Salt Lake when it was decided to locate the throqgli to a successful culmination in City, fact-irtwo plant at Layton on the conditions set lesk than nine months. The forth by the committees letter. . with which have worked together the success are such unparalelled January 17. Engineers complete farmers of Davis county and the sug- survey of three sites for factory in the ar company. DaVis county farmers immediate vicinity of Layton. Plans for plant being wanted the sugar factory and when and specifications comConstruction the made had Dyer by they they learned that it might be conduct to David E. one Layton the went after it' with single pany. thought of getting it. It was not a canvass for acreage among the beet market for -- their beets that they growers. D E. Harris, pioneer beet wanted, they already had that, as grower signs first contract. much as the other and greater advanJanuary 28. Contract let for moving tages to be derived. Among these ad- plant of, company from Raymond, vantages which actuated the far- Canada and erecting same at Layton. sighted farmers of Davis county may February 18. Layton Sugar com.. be mentioned beet pulp for livestock pany organized with capital of market for, all kinds , feedingTTiome 'of forage crops to feed in connection February 11. When it became apwith the pulp, increased selling value parent that the sugar factory had of their lands and other benefits which been secured, (he Layton Commercial club decided to celebrate the event in result from a substantial pay roll. . The files of The Reflex for the past a manner fitting to the occasion. The few months reveal the fixed purpose governing board resolved on giving a and prompt action which followed the four course banquet with all the adfirst intimation that a sugar factory juncts to such an occasion and the might be secured at this point. E. P. banquet was given inT the Farmers of the company, Union hall on- the night of the above Ellison, was perhaps, the chief spirit in the in- - date. No expense was Bpared to make terest of the sugar company, and the the event the greatest of its kind ever farmers committee was right on the given in the state outside of the larger job With him in every move, ready at cities. Members of the club, and their all times to meet all requirements guests to the number of 150 sat at the that were asked of them. At this time table which was lavishly decorated when hopes have materialized it is well with cut floerws. The hall was also that the people be reminded just how decorated with flags and bunting. It was a night that will always be reit all came aboutV membered December 24, From The Reflex of by all who, were fortunate 1914, we learn that a meeting had in obtaining an invitation. Guests been held on the preceeding Wednes- from all parts of the state were in atday at which farmers, business men tendance and the olficers of the sugar and members of the Layton Commerc- company were guests of honor. , E. M. Whitesides was toastmaster, ial club met and discussed the proposition of moving the Knight sugaf fac- and a good one. Among those respondtory from Raymond, Canada to Lay-to- ing to toasts were: County Cleric WaA committee composed of the fol- lter W. Evans, for the Layton Comlowing farmers was appointed to meet mercial plubj J William Knight of the officers of the Knight Sugar com- Provo, for the sugar company ; Charles pany: John W. Thomley of KaysviUe, R. Mabey, for Davis county, Henry H. P. H. Jvalder of Syracuse, Hyrum Blood, L. E. Ellison, Leo J. Muir, Stewart of Farmington, James G. Judge H. H. Rolapp and E. P. Ellison. ood of Clearfield and Will L Layton, The gathering represented the solid d present the advantages of the and progressive element of Davis county. It was an evening in which bayton district. December SI. Committee met and good feeling and good will predominPrepared a statement of facts and in- ated, the influence of which is still in ducements to be presented to the of- evidence in the every day affairs of ficers of the sugar company setting life in Davis county. At that banquet ' layton Sugar Factory from the ' $600,-000- - vice-preside- nt n. -- t, showing syrup tank, sugar warehouse 7 Fiom tile centrifugal machines the sugar is piecipituted to the final drier. This dryfhg is accomplished by confining it in the revolving dtier for the proper length of time, ditnpg which it drops automatically over a chamber. From this machine it is fed into a granulator dnd finally, it is elevated to the separator, where it Is graded. It then flows into tanks from which it is emptied into speks. The sacks of sugar are sewed by machine. It will thus hi seen that during entire process neither the beet or the sugar product is touched by the human hands. Even the old method of scraping sugar from the sides of the centrifugals by hand is replaced by the mote modern method of scraping by meuns of a property adjusted metal scraper which is operated by a lever. "From the weighing and sacking room, the sugar is conveyed by trucks to the storage room by a machine slacker, which will carry a sack of sugar from the floor and deposit it at any ifeighth desired. The storeroom is (id by 122 feet in size and twenty-liv- e feet high in the clear. It will hold more than 30,000,-00-- steam-heate- EPHRAIM P. ELLISON Community Builder First Layton Sugar r yice-Preside- nt Company. d 0 pounds pL&ugar in sacks, , s' south-wes- ho HE m) " Testing Laboratory.' gine room. A series of headgated and Intends control the water, as it is to the various flumes carrying beets to the factory. The plant will give employment to about 125 men in the factory. Use Locally Rained Beets. Locally raised beets will be used in the plant as far as they will reach its capacity. The- - operation of the plant offer a new inducement to the furmers of the section of the country immediately south of Ogden to raise a superior quality of sugar beets and, us there is a large profit to the raiser, there is not a question that an increased acreage will result. The principal office ,of the Layton Sugar cempuny is at Layton, Utah. The officers of the company are Jesse Knight, president; E. P. Ellison, first, David C. Eccles,' sec-- " ond James E. Ellison, munager. These with James Pingrfce, J. W, Knight, David A. Smith, O. C. Beebe, Joseph Nibley and Henry II. Kulupp, constitute the board of diwill t; vice-preside- rectors. Operating Force. The operating force at the factory is olliicered as follows: II. T. Dyer, is officered as follows: II. T. Dyer, Auburn, California, perhaps, the most experenced man n the Unted States in staring beet scugar factories and has devoted his entire time to that branch of the business, until it has become al- most .a profession, having had charge of many of the largest plants erected ni California, Colorado, Idaho and Utah; W. W, Cowley, Laytoh, general foreman; Geoge E. Kirkham, Layton, foreman. The two last named gentlemen were with the Knight company at Raymond, Canada, where they worked with James E. Ellison, who came from Canada to take over the management of this plant. The actual starting of the plant was on Saturday afternoon of last week, when fire was lighted in the lime kiln. On the second floor of the factory is a completely equipped laboratory, in sectionalism was blotted out so effec- through a series of thirteen cells in charge of C. C. Fletcher, chief chemist, tually that it will never return in the which the sugar is taken out in solu- who has two chemists as his assistminds of most of those present. It ce- tion. After passing through these cells ants. Here the beet samples taken -mented the interests and the people of there is nothing left of the beets but from carload and wagonload received, Davis county and time will prove it of a pulp, and this is conveyed, auto- are tested1 for the sugar content, and more value than the great success matically, to the silos to be sold for the pulp is also tested in order to aswhich has been achieved. stock food. certain the percentage of loss during March 11. Opposition on the part The juices pass into the measuring the process of sugar recovery. of Canadian Pacific railroad company tanks, where the temperature and Power Plant. to removal of factory. Dyer Construc- density of the liquor are taken, and A battery of three pairs of Stirling tion company instructed to erect new the juices are then reheated to take boilers with combined capacity of plant on plans and spcifications of the out the albuminoids. Coagulation then 1500 horsepower, furnishes steam for plant at Payson, with the exception take place and lime is introduced to two Corliss engines, which are used of adding all the latest improvements. prepare the juices for the first heavier machinery the to drive Th Dyer company bound itself to treatment. This process is and for a septhe plant, throughout handle carried out in four huge tanks, where have the new plant ready to which the dynamo arate drives engine, the 1915 beet crop and every resident the juices are treated with carbonic for lighting and of the county knows how well the com- acid gas.twhich takes out all impuri- producing electricity smaller power purposes. pany has succedded in making good. ties. The factory is also quipped with a The fluid is then passed through a COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Today theplant is in operation and modem mawithin the next day or two finished Kelly filter and the juices flow from magnificently equipped MEETING chine shop. This building is 42 by 52 sugar will be coming through. As can this filter fclear. It then passes through feet in size and contains drill several the At county commissioners meetbe seen from the photo grahs printed a further carbonation process and filneces- ing a communication from Jacobs ft and other machinery presses in this issue of The Reflex, the plant is ters extracting the mechanical impuriwhich all that could be desired so far as ex- ties. It is then pumped to the sulphi-te- r sary for making any repairs break- Higinbothati was read and filed. The account of on be board decided not to have an auditing necessary terior appearance is concerned, and tanks and to the evaporators, may and which will be useful in the of the county books this year. there is every assurance that the me- there being four of the latter and of age of new machinery and in Commissioner Hess reported that chanical end of the plant is the best immense size where the water is ex- installation of the the the Chamber of Commerce of Salt plant. upkeep general that money, science and skill can tracted and the sugar in the liquor In the Lake a company building separate City had requested the county rear. This plant will long remain an state is allowed to flow into the melt-e- r used in the commissioners to have a representaown will make its lime, tanks. From these it goes as a thick enduring monument to the enterprise This tive at a meeting to be held in Salt of the fanners liquid into, the thick sulphiters, 'after process of purifying the sugar. and in 42 42 size. is feet to attendLake .City, October 5. Mr. by of Davis county and the men who which it is again filtered to take out building Concrete. Brick and Hes was appointed to attend the meethave invested their money in the en- the final mechanical impurities. 156.5 main is The feet ing. . long factory After passing through four additerprise. is and four wide. 69 three and fet It tional filters, the liquor is pumped to Process ef Treating. the pan storage tanks on the upper stories in height and is thoroughly HOME OF AARON CALL BURNED Reaching the factory the beets are where it is boiled until the de- fireproof. This as well as all of the, "The home of Aaron Call in the raised by a bucket elevator to an im- floor, sired size of grain is secured. There buildings is constructed of brick, mense washer, where they are relieved 'and steel. .The floors are of Syracuse district was burned to the are two of these pan storage tanks, of every particle of dirt, and are then one for white and the other for brown concrete and the galleries and stair ground at about 6 oclock this morning. It is thought that the lire conveyed, to a Chrons balance, where ways of steel. There is scarcely any sugar. originated at the kitchen etove. The wood used in the construction. they are automatically weighed. From was a five room structure The Final Process. the washer they go to the cutting maThe boiler house whieh adjoins the building and said that there was no inis it After having been boiled the liquor main building also is built of brick chine, where they are sliced to a uniMost of the household furnsurance. form thickness and are ready for sug- is dropped into a mixer on the floor and steel. The warehouse is of brick iture and other contents of the house ar extraction. below, where it is held in storage and steel. The roof is supported by were saved by member of the, family In the process of sugar extraction a tanks, from which it is sent to the cen- structural steel beams, and with the assistance of neighbors. standardized liquor1 is obtained, and it trifugal machines, where- - the sugar is and there is not a pillar or any may be mentioned that this is the spun of separated from the liquor. The other obstruction In the interior. . MUTUAL MEETING The receiving sheds are now in only sugar factory in Utah which has liquid passes through a fine screen on standardized in an the outer portion of the centrifugals course of construction. The floor and A very interesting program is being a liquor, resulting absolutely uniform garde of sugar. and the molasses is conveyed to a flumes are of concrete. Water for the arranged for Sunday evening. MeetThe sugar content of the beefs is ex- large, steel storage tank, with capac- flumes is pumped to the upper end by ing will commence at 7 p. m. from tracted by passing the sliced beets ity of of froml5O0 to 2000 tons. a series of pumps located in the en now on. i con-concr- |