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Show H SUGAR AND TRANSPORTATION. B 1!,i nv " '" ',o 'ouml n vory '"""''"i-' B article wlitch eliona tlmt tlio mignr in- B ihiatry w on that rIvcs employment In H nutty w.tvs. Ite.ija tlmt to produce B 2,1)00,000 tons ol migar lo.OOO.OCO tons o H liocts are required. Wo do not know H whero those IlKurescnmo. from but will H sty that here It would take nearer .'JO, H 000,000 tons of boots to mnko tlmt a- BflB mount of sugar ns 7 per cent Is about BBB l'10 "niount extracted. BBS "The dcu'lopmont of tho beet sugar H Industry In this cotfiUy has nn Itnpor- H tnnt benringon tho railway interest. Ab H tho Trees has shown, wo Imported for B tho cir ending June 30, 1602, 1,(172,000 BBB tons of raw sugar, which was an excess BBBj of moro than 500,000 tons oter tho a BBB inotiut imported In 18S0, shovt ing a mnr- BBB ked Incrcnso in tho hoiuu demand, lie- BBB foro tho century closes, nlcss wo cou- BBB tlntio to foster the uiuivnllon of the BBB sugar butt, our in ports of raw sugar BBB "'" "reed two million tons per annum H "To produco 1!,HK).000 tons of fcttgnr BBBJ requires 15,000,000 tons of lucts. Tlieli BBB conversion into sugnr will loneuino -, H 600,000 tons of coal and 1,500,000 Ions BBB of lime, all of which Is to ho transported BBB to tho sugar manufactories by railways, BBBj and, In addition, tho product lit reiincd BBB Biigar must bo distributed to consumers, BBBj making a grand total addition of more H than 20,000,000 tons to tho railway traf- BBBj ilcot thu country. In tho weit where BBBj tho sugar beet Industry has been cstab- BBBj lished tho railway companies ehovv BBB their appreciation of It by building eldo BBBf- trocks opposite farms upon wliiilt any BBBJ considerable quantity of beets aro grow n BBVM . ""J by hauling to the manufactory at BBBj cry low rates. BBBJ "'" Utah beets linvo been Bhl)iped by BBBt rail to tho manufactory ever 100 miles. BBBj The production of our on u sugar, based BBBJ "Pon uur present importation mcana n BBBJ very largo and permanent increato in BBB our railway tonnage. BBBJ "1'ivo hundred million bushel of H wncat weigh 15,000,000 tons. Ten nill- BBBj lion bales of cotton, ot -100 pounds per H bale wo'gh 2,000,000 tons. If wo, there- BBBj foro, produco ttie sugar we shall bo com- BBBf pellcd to import buloro the century closes BBBj iU shall add moro to tho tonuago of our BBBJ r.lhaH than our wheat ud tottou BBBj ci ps combined now nflbrilthcu. U.tluriji5 t!)5 next forty eara our BBB pO) ulatton Is doubled, with it nuKlcrate BBBa inei' uao in tho per capita consumption B o B,'"r ll ul" require In 1030 Uo mil- BBB8 Hon t ji sof stigiir to supply tho homo BBBV market moro than wo now produce. BBBa This in- ana thu creation of nearly 60, BBBX 000,000 lona of permanent nud valuable BBBa trnlliu for tho railways of thu United B Slates. A'. |