Show THE SUGAR QUESTION The Subject Discussed at the Meeting Held Yesterday V WHAT SALT LAKERS I CAX DOA DO-A Good Move that Cannot Fall to Add Wealth to the Territory and Give Labor t the Unemployed Pursuant to a call about forty citizens met in the Fourteenth Ward assembly hall yesterday morning for the purpose of discussing dis-cussing the propriety of starting a sugar factory Mr A Stayner called the meeting to order and Mr Henry Wallace manager Of the cracker factory was elected chairman of the meeting F A Mitchell Esq rras elected secretary secre-tary vIsa OBJECT OF TiE MCKTIXO The chairman stated in brief the purpose of the meeting introducing his remarks with the statement that the choosing of him as chairman was surprise Ho called upon Mr Stayner to put the matter before the meeting Mr Stayner recognized the paramount necessity for home manufactures I have hollered sugar could oe made here I have practically demonstrated that sugar can be made and I can offer to the people a profitable profit-able and remunerative industry I will employ 1000 hands and it will pay from 25 to 75 per cent and we have a market 51000000 sales on sugar yearly In five years we can save the sending out of 51000000 for sugar and keep our own men employed I am corroborated in this by Mr Elias Morris who himself has investigated the subject and seen what I have seen A the season for cane is short the matter of sugar beet camo forward and now we have ascertained that sugar can be made out of the sugar beet We have also ascertained taat sugar can be refined in immediate connection con-nection with the manufacture of it The opportunity is here to employ 1000 men and to save 1000000 annually to the territory MB Jiouuis SAID I went to Fort Scott and saw the working of the factory there on cane and to ascertain ascer-tain the results and cost I found they had received samples of cane raised in Utah and that our cane made a better showing than that raised in Kansas despite the disadvantages dis-advantages caused by the loss of time consumed con-sumed in transportation Besides 100 pounds of sugar to the ton of cane they can also produce from fifteen to sixteen gallons gal-lons of molasses They paid 12 per ton for fieir cane at the mill tho seed cut off the tjpI I found the farmers were pleased with the enterprise they were well paid for their labor The county gave a bonus of two cents a pound for all the sugar made in live years and tho county was well satisfied sat-isfied Applications wore coming in to get the company to do the same work in the Southern States Their capital was 5100 000 and they made according to these statements from 30 to So per cent not including in-cluding the bonus They said they ran the factory from seventy to seventyfive days They had no refinery yet had good sales for their sugar The question with me was could we run for seventy or seventy five days on cane J I questioned it in our short season The frost will injure the cane and it will not produce granulated sugar until it is ripe Prof Stevenson told me that beets could bo manipulated in the same plant excepting a t ths knives without a doubt and if baets could be used our season for working could thereby be lengthened Hon George Q Cannon asked Did they find it best t raisoicthoir sown cane or to have it raised Mr Morris Theeaunty gave the factory 200 acres and they had 100 acres and the company leased this ground and contracted with farmers to raise the cane and they had found this plan satisfactory I went west this winter While there I met a Mr Dyer the pioneer of sugar manufacture man-ufacture on the Pacific coast Mr Dyer was the manager of a new mill put up at a cost of 300000 I went to Alameda and visited this factory with him He and his son and cousin went to Germany and England Eng-land and through the United States to ascertain all that could be done in the manufacture of sugar They erected a factory but they discovered they were in the hands of Spreckles because they had no refinery The son of Mr Dyer thought he had discovered a method for refining and juice he found that beets could be refined in the AT A VEttT SLIGHT COST and by this means they escaped the extor tons of Mr Sprcckles and have a refinery equal to the capacity of the mill They prefer pre-fer the beet there and i makes equally as fine a sugar By building this factory ourselves and doing all the work hero that was possible we could at reasonable cost secure se-cure a factory to manufacture and refine sixteen tons of sugar daily I other factories were started the refinery in this city could run the year round taking the sugar that might be made in Utah and Cacho counties I our soil is adapted to raising sugar beats V we have many advantages advant-ages above them in manj little saleratus will not injure tho beet for sugar but too much destroys s it They used hirtyfive tons of coal daily at 10 per ton while we could get it at our mill at 250 per ton This is in our favor Then we have a margin on freights And we have a margin in our favor on labor Mr Dyer said he could vouch to make sugar here for 3J4 cents to 4 cents per pound I asked Mr Dyer what we could get his patents for He said if he came hero to erect the mill he would give us all the patents pat-ents they had We could use our own labor they would give us the benefit of their skill and would run the first season if we were ready He would charge us only for the time He would only enter into the work as a superintendent doing the restto help the movement here Mr Morris said he had received writtcu answers to some questions he put and also one pound of beet seed which they get every year from Germany He also said I also called to see Mr Spreckles At his refineries they were anxious to seo sugar factories started and they would not wish TO CRUSH TiE WORK OUT I was through Mr Dyer that Mr Spreckles got into the business In my talk with Mr Jprecklcs agents I learned that they coincided coin-cided in their figures with those of Mr Dyer and his aids From the waste on beet comes onethird the weight in pulp and it is recognized as one of the best feeds for cattle and cows and a dairy has already been started within 100 yards of the factory By machinery the pulp is taken and fed to the cattle I will keep for years without losing any of its virtue They get 5 per ton which reduces re-duces the cost Spreckles says twenty and Dye says fifteen fif-teen tons of beets can be raised to the acre They furnish the farmer with the seed and drills and the beets are weeded out until they are four inches apart The tendency is to force the beet down as that which is above the ground is no good for sugar Some beet raised here for seed sent from California i showed 1340 in sugar but h be di di 1 rd the beets were raised in inferior ground as they use none that go less than 1 per cent of sweetness those raised hero were not goo enough Fourteen tons of cane has been raised to the acre in Utah stripped of tho leaves and seed the average in Kansas is ten to eleven tons to the acre Remarks were made by Messrs Stewart Goddard Rawlins Cannon Snell and others oth-ers A committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions criptions consisting of Messrs Morris Wallace Stewart Snell Mitchell and tayner The meeting then adjourned subject to V the call of the committee ca |