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Show 11KKT HUOAIt IX ITAH. Utah offers a bounty of ono cent per pound on 8U(ar manufactured iu this territory. This is a very liberal inducement induce-ment to men of means and enterprise to engage iu tho manufacture of sugar from beets. Wo understand that one company has already been organized for that purpose, aud others may be formed iu tho near future. Nebraska offers tho same premium as Utah, and it may interest our readers to learn tho result. Tho O.siiard Sugar company, as it is called, is building an immense factory at Grand Island. It is UOO feet long, 100 feet wide, and throe stories high. Men are working night and day to rush it to completion. The machinery, consisting of twenty-seven carloads, is now en route to Grand Island. The company owns forty acres of land on which itsplaut is located, and it has contracted for 8,000 acres on which lo raiso beets. Employment will be given lo 200 men. Tho investment will be over $500,000, and the factory will be a very important industry not only for the prosperous town of Grand Island but, for a largo portion of No-braska. No-braska. The beets raised in tho vicinity vicin-ity of Grand Island havo been thoroughly thor-oughly analyzed and aro found to contain con-tain IB 1-10 per cent of saccharine matter. mat-ter. In Germany and Fruncej sugar is profitably made from beets containing only from 8 6-10 per cent of saccharine matter. That the Grand Island enterprise enter-prise will provo very profitable there is no doubt, and there is no reason why sugar making cannot bo carried on just as successfully in Utah. The beet-sugar industry will certainly bo a great benefit bene-fit to the farmers, as beets aro a thrifty crop, and if a home market is aff orded they will be produced in largo quantities quanti-ties in the Salt Lako valley. |
