Show manufacturing EPOCH in our last issue a circular appeared signed by a large number of our roost prominent and influential citizens recommending the establishment of the sugar industry as a practical measure likely to prove successful and sure to be a benefit to the people of this territory little need be said now we presume in support of the proposition that the manufacture of sugar can be established in utah with profit to those who invest in the enterprise the subject has been discussed at length practical business men have investigated the claims of the projectors of the movement visits have been made to manufactories manu factories east and west where sugar making has succeeded samples of utah soil have been chemically analyzed and found to e contain the elements necessary for the production of saccharine matter both from sorghum and the beet labor can be obtained at reasonable rates all that is needed to is the organization of a strong company the investment of the necessary funds the purchase of machinery the selection of a site for the factory and of a competent manager to take personal oversight of the works we hope that the agitation of this matter which has been in progress for some time will not pass off in vapor it ought to crystallize cryst alize into sugar fit for the market and in quantities to supply the home demand the wind work has been done now shall the material work begin the endorsement of the measure by such names as are appended to the circular is a guaranty of its feasibility and probable success years ago we advocated in these columns the local establishment of the sugar industry we believed then it could be made profitable to the manufacturer and of great good to the territory we believe so now the money that goes out of the territory for the purchase of this necessary article which can just as well as not be made at home would be kept in circulation here and help to make times better and foster other industries manufactures are the present pressing need of the territory we have here a number of praiseworthy corporations for the conduct of business they are no doubt of great worth to the community they are in the control of bona fade residents whose prosperity means the further growth of our material interests but they are chiefly of a commercial character what we most want are industrial producing enterprises the sugar industry is one of them employment is needed for the young people growing up to maturity for the artisans arti and laborers who come here from abroad and for every unemployed hand able to work for a living idleness is the devils workshop and there ought to be no place for it in such a territory as ours remunerative munera tive labor ought to be found for every willing worker A loafer should be a curiosity in zion the true benefactors of utah are the producers and the providers provider of employment the mercantile spirit has a sphere of it its own and its oper actions are necessary and are honorable when honest skill and economy are needed in the distribution and utilization of the products of labor but merchandising izing I 1 is S dependent upon agriculture and manufactures and the investors in commerce will be sub serving their own interests as well as those of the community by fostering and encouraging the production of articles that can be raised or made within our own borders in theft the field eld of sugar production we do not enter upon untried soil that sorghum can be raised here and that the juice from the cane can be crystallized is known to nearly every farmer in the country beet culture is also an accomplished fact tn the manufacture of sugar from the cane we have the practical experience of several persons arthur stayner being at the front of the industry he has devoted much time labor skill and means I 1 in n practical experiments by which the possibilities in this direction have been demonstrated we thus have the soil the labor the skill and the results before us and while every project of this kind is more or less of a venture still it is not in this instance a more mere doubtful speculation peculation s ula tion we hope to see the sugar ludasi industry ry taken right hold of with a vim and vigor worthy of our active business men and believe that it will be made a source of handsome profit to the investors in good time and of such benefits to the community as cannot now be calculated it will prove in our opinion the beginning of a manufacturing epoch that has long been foreseen and desired and that will open up immense advantages to all classes of people in this territory |