| Show A SUGAR FACTORY FOR UTAH leading men taking hold of alie contemplated tem plated project A circular bearing date of march and signed by wilford woodruff lorenzo snow P D richards george Q cannon joseph F smith john W angus M cannon francia arm baroug elias morris A 0 smoot S P teasdale diaries W hardy charles W oscar hardy L W shurtliff orson F whitney samuel reunion W A rossiter J M taker george D john W hess S R marks jesse W fox henry wailace Wd ilace F A kitchelt Mit chelt daniel stuart J W snell R K thomas bieber M wells H B clawson leonard G hardy and arthur st ayner has been issued directed to all interested in the development of the resources of utah it reads as follows your attention is invited to the feasibility and practicability of establishing the industry of making sugar in this territory among the many articles of importation for which we have been paying large bums of money annually the article of sugar stands forth prominently as one of the most costly for many years there existed a grave doubt whether or not the soil and climate of this territory were suitable to the production of sugar from any known sugar bearing plant but experiments peri ments made here during the past few years with sorghum cane and the introduction of the principle of diffusion in the extraction of the juice bare placed bayoud doubt the practical and profitable production of sugar from that plant and this success being assured it is confidently fi believed that beets raised here in carefully selected localities can also be worked for sugar as readily and profitable as those raised in california where the beet sugar production is a pronounced success chemical analysis has demonstrated sorghum raised here contains from 1 to 3 per cent more saccharine than j alio cane worked profitably and fully at fort scott kansas and there is no doubt that all other sugar bearing plants raised in this altitude and dry climate will contain more saccharine than raised in localities of lower altitude and greater humidity it has also been clearly shown here and by tle experience of the sorghum augar manufacture rrt in the east and by the beet sugar producers of the west that with cane at 8 OD and beets at per ton of two thousand pounds sugar can be manufactured at a profit and from information received from the pacific beet tugar works at alvarado where the process is now in successful operation sugar can be refined in the course of manufacture from the jubie thus overcoming the last difficulty that lies in the way of producing for our market and from the crude elements an article of white sugar equal in quality to the best imported As this industry when fully established will provide labor for hundreds save the outgo of a large amount annually and yield a good profit to investors ve we recommend it to the careful consideration and palpable support of all who desire to aid in the development of the resources of our territory |
