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Show Why They Failed. Spuaking of the failure of tho sugir factory at Menominee Falls, Wis., a paper of that Btato says; They.got tangeled in tho finances bonded the plant, and quit, but we hopo they did not stop short like grandfather's grand-father's clock ; but if tho expert f toni the Grand Island (Nebraska) sugu factory, who was sent to Menominee Falls bv a company in Des Moines, Iowa, to ' investigate tho plant, is correct, "it will never go again" until it it made over on modern American machinery lines. The expert reports great faults of construction con-struction in nearly every particular, and claims that it would take many thousands of dollars to make changes suflicieut to make a complete and profitable sugar factory and refinery. If capitalists aro to invest in a sugar f ictory let them see a successful factory and refinery in operation. They ciin see tho Oxnard's in Nebraska and California, or tho Dver's in Lehi, Utah, or California. T'lere seems to have been a lot of screws loose m the Menominee Falls plant somewhere or somehow. When the tests are made all over Wisconisu this fall, and if they aro satisfactory to capitalists, there will lo no doubt About several sugar factories beiug built in the State next year. If thre arc we will wager a row of beets that they will not take the Menominee Falls factory for a model, or let the building of a plant to a foreign German syndicate. They will look to American factories successfully in operation and call upon men, perhaps German-Americans, who can duplicate tliom with American machinery and impiovemcnts which the projectors of our American factor.es will gladly BUggest. |