| Show Spreokela Ambition CHICAGO May 1301aus Spreckels who is 60 years old and has made himself him-self a millionaire many times over said last night that he had only just begun his life work This is the establishment in America of the beet sugar industry on a basis that will permanently benefit bene-fit agriculturists and incidentally it is his purpose to annihilate the sugar trust Tomorrow at Philadelphia he will meet the engineers and draughts men who are at work on the plans for this new refinery in that city With these additional facilities Mr tipreck els said he would soon be able to supply sup-ply half of all the sugar consumed m the United States He was confident he could make sugar cheaper than the trust The failure of beet root sugar experiments in America he attributed to the Jack of experience The few skilled workmen imported were not familiar with all the steps of the process pro-cess This is where Mr Spreckels claims to have the advantage He trains his men personally for each department de-partment and has made beet root sugar a success in California Equally good results he declares can be obtained ob-tained throughout the east and by affording af-fording a ready market he is prepar ing to prove that the farmer who is extremely ex-tremely fortunate if he gets 10 for an acre of wheat may get 100 for the same acre if the crop is sugar beets and at the same time enrich and not impoverish the soil r |
