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Show BEET ROOT SUGAR. We saw yesterday, at the Co-operative Institution, a sample of beautiful crystallized sugar, made from beets in the sugar works at Alvarado, California. This branch of industry is exciting more than ordinary attention in California at the present time, and wisely so, for there is prosperity to the State in its encouragement. It will increase their exports largely, and decrease their imports im-ports proportionately the very keystone key-stone of prosperity. The Alvarado works, we learn, can turn out four tons of crystallized sugar a day. The machinery ma-chinery can be procured at a cost of about $100,000; and the manufacture is in every respect a success in California Cali-fornia as well as in the east. Ebre is a means by which wealth can be increased in-creased in Utah. Beets can be grown here most productively, and their cultivation cul-tivation more extensively would make available large tracts of land now considered con-sidered comparatively worthless because be-cause of alkali; while the manufacture of beet root sugar, from beets grown on such soil, would be literally extracting extract-ing sugar from aika'i, a species of chemistry chem-istry as lucrative as it would be novel. The crystallization of beet sugar is very rapid. The process of manufacture, thus described in the Cxb'ornia Far-m-r, will be found interesting : In the first place, the beets arr brought into the beet-root house, where the tops are trimmed off nicely; they are then placed into a washer, which contains a large cylinder inside of a hox that is filled with water, and when they come out they are as clean at though they had been wa:-hed by hand. This machine is capable ol washing 7o tuns ier day more than the factory cull u.ve. Alter they are sashed they are placed in the elevator and hoisted into the upper story of the main building, to what is called the if atcr one of the most novel con- .ivances tor grinding up beets I ever eiw and when they emerge in the trough beluw th:y ure pround to a pulp, liner thou hor.Le-ndih is gener-l!y gener-l!y jnrauj'1. from this it wot into the Juke C'en tritium!, of which there are ten. The.-o Centrifugal.-, revolve at the rate r.f 1,21j times pur minute extracting ail the juiej and leaving nothing but the dry pulp. Alter iis j;iaratio:i from tin: iulp, the juice r'j.s:i into 1-ire trough1, and thence ii the del'aetioii pann. In the e pan (lie juice is Mibject to a chemical pro-ttfs, pro-ttfs, and alter remaining for hail' an hour ipj";d into what the French call the Mout'ju.", located on the lower floor. From ihenee it is f iie::d by steam ,'uo two lur;'c 'It' r pre-and from t bcrei! 1; f'-nt to t:; sa, uridyl ion pans in ii,o third t'.oiy: vAi-.t". i. iuil;i','.'OC .mother chemical piO' C n, and from (Jit pun il pa'-' jnto lie1 laryc JUgIB r II.MlllHaWI.IJIH I 3 filters filled rr i animal coal, unci from these it f.as.-oc into another Jlonttjus, and thence into two large evaporating pans, where it is burned down to a thick syrup, after which it passes back through the filters into the vacuum vacu-um and is boiled down to sugar. This is capable of he izg fro tuns of sugar at a time. When so boiled it is placed in pans capable of holding two hundred pounds each, where it is left for a fey hours and allowed to cyrstallize, when it is placed in the sugar Centrifu;: da and reduced, turning but the mo-: beautiful of white sugar. Everythiu ; in the factory is done by the evai oration ora-tion of steam from lour boilers sixU' -i feet long aud five feet in diameter. 1 the process no hie is used except i the furnace where the carbonic gas ;.; made for the saturization pans. We lay the matter before our business busi-ness men, aud would be pleaded to publish suggestions concerning it. The profits are estimated at a hundred per cent, on the outlay. |