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Show SUGAR PRODUCTION. THE FACTORY WILL SOON BE MAKING THIRTY-FIVE TONS A DAY. A Man Who Could Distinguish Beet from Cane Sugar Gets Fooled New Sidewalks Side-walks Popperton Place Kail- road Joint Building. 14 o Everything at the Lehi sugar factory is running to the utmost satisfaction, and daily shipments will be made. The production , for the next fifteen days w ill be approxi- ( iuately fifteen tons per day, but after that W time it will be increased to thirty-five tons a fA day, and kept at that point until the works closedown for the season which will bo S, about January 1. C""' ff) People Like the Sugar. Jk ' Cunnington & Co. had by noon today, nearly sold out the ear of sugar w hich they "1 received from the Lehi factory on Saturday. All purchasers w ho tre seen, expressed themscHes as being entirely pleased with it quality and nearly all claimed to be uiuiH.i to distinguish it from the cam- sugar received from California. One. man who pro. laimed that "he was a skeptic on beet suirar anyhow," came into the store and aked to be shown a sample. A scoop full was handed to him ; he examined it critically, tasted of it and felt the granulations witU his fingers. "Hump! cood manv shades off color, ain't it," he asked of Mr. Hill. "No, I don't think it's color is vrry bad,'' meekly responded the grocer. "Yes it is too, d d bad at that. Doesn't taste very good cither; is strong got a kind of a w hang to it that you nevpr find in cane Migar. I couid tell that it was made from bect. with my ovej shut." "Vou are the fir-t man who h.is objected to its tsste or color, and I think the first rnrm wtlO H:, Tl;irti the A ccnvj.pv It l.-r.L- if you were rather severe on the new indiir try; you must remember that it is young yet, and its production will steadily improve in quality," urged Mr, Hal, anxious to placate the critic. But Mr. " speaking to a clerk, "hand me. out ; scoopful of that California sugar, that thii gentleman may compare the two." The man opened his fly catcher and hoit. ed in a load of the supposed t 'aiifornia product. pro-duct. "That's the stuff; that's sugar; rtonr of your beet juice about that ee the difference in the color: none of that strong taste about it you find in your I.ehi truck." "My dear sir," laughed .Mr. Hill. "I don't; like to persuade a man that he is a blooming; chump, but under the circumstances I must. Now let nie tell you that we. have nothing1 but Utah beet sugar in the store. Roth of those scoopt'uis you fnted and found such difference iii the. color aud flavor conic out of the same barrel." "That so! Don't say a word! Take a, cigar; and while you are about it cend a, sack or two up to the bouse." Popperton Plae Railroad. Nearly all the gradiug on this line of street railroad which terminates at Fort Douglas, has been finished through Popperton addi. tion, and it w ill be continued into the city as fast as possible. All of the materials "for laying the track an; at hand and the com. pany expects to have the line in operation; by the first of December. An equipment of cars have been ordered which are said b eclipse in every w ay those that are row ia use by the two city, railroad companies. They are to be. modern and elegant. Joint Building Foundations. The estimates of the cost and dimension of the. foundations for the cilv and count "building by the city and county engineer, and the contractor and the architects, which were made la-t week, will be. submit sub-mit ted to the joint building- committee to. morrow. If it is excepted, the work on the foundations w ill begin at once. Contractor Bowman, is now hauling the materials for making the concrete on the ground so as t be ready when the committee has agreed and instructs him to proceed. Deep Creek Committee. There w ill be a meeting tonight of thi Deep Creek railroad committee appointed by Fred Simon. As there has been no previous conference it cannot be definitely stated just w hat action will be taken but one ef the members expressed the opinion that the first thing to be done would be to have- a conference confer-ence with Messrs. Bacon !c Jones, get some, idea of the shape their scheme is in. and place the committee at their disposal to aid their enterprise in every w ay possible. Chamber of Commerce. Secretary Mcloy, of the chamber of com. roeree is meeting w ith excellent success in. his collection dues of delinquents. Many people who were lukewarm tow ards the institution in-stitution iu the past, have been made to know by actual demonstration, that the institution in-stitution of a board of trade is capable oC doing a great deal for the business interest- of a city and that the local chamber has accomplished ac-complished much in the past and is doing1 more every day. The New Sidewalks. Both of the firms of sidewalk contractors have completed their contracts and hav3 asked that it be inspected and approved. |