| Show FACTORY will soon ie supplied WITH GOOD BEET SUGAR by our northern neighbor capital invested of the enterprise after yeara deliberation and study on the sugar subject we are now about to see a practical demonstration of the important question can we raise sugar beets in utah that contain a sufficient percent of saccharine saccha to render the sugar making industry a complete suc and demonstrate the of constructing a factory and refining works with sufficient capacity to manufacture beet sugar enough to justify the investment of capital in that direction at the bank of tho preposition stood men of the widest business reputation and whom the public have known for years to be the pioneers of cur home industries aud the faithful advocates of facilitating the resources of this western country and to bring into the parent wealth of the great inter mountain region looming up before the project were almost insurmountable obstacles which could only be obviated by a practical demonstration of the question in hand the entreaty en of which now lies before the public for solution a first of all where will the capital come from the leaders of industry have answered the question aud formed a joint stock company with the following gentle men for its business cepres enta tives elias morris president geo Q cannon vice president arthur stay bur secretary and francis armstrong leonard hardy T li cutler and james shipman as an executive committee under whose direct supervision the en tiie business of the company will be managed the location next in hand was soon determined and lehi the favorite city of the jordan made queen of the project the site is just one mile south of the business part of the city on the old mill site forty acres of land and an exclusive right to all the water necessary for the works haye been purchased ty the sugar company the plans for the immense structure were originated and dictated drawn by yates dyers co of alvarado cal ane above company have the contract for constructing and completing the entire plant at a cost of to be completed and ready for operation first of september 1891 accompanying the contract dyer co have given a bond of insuring a successful sugar refining and manufacturing plant providing that the people will furnish the beets to make the sugar from the plant not prove a success the contracting parties forfeit besides this are kept back out of their contract money until the plant is in successful operation elias morns secured the contract for building the and furnishing the material for the same and on the of last november alie first grorud was broken and excavation excava tiou began for the foundation found atio i the greater pirt of which is now complete sixty men and about twenty teams are en on alie anil by christmas all the stone work iiii be done the force of men board at the large boarding aliouse of mr evans on tha site fiort of ilie teams employed belong to lehi but the are nearly all foreigners each laboring man receives 20 cents per hour for his labor man and team 40 cents per hour and the mechanic are paid by the day the building is feet long by an average width of 84 feet and three enree stories high for ue foundation six feet of excavation has been done through the and soil and the buttress of the foundation rests on a sovid bearing at the bottom the foundation is five feet four inches wide and is reduced to about two feet before it reaches the surface being emual to an average of 3 feet four inches thick ita stran gih is greatly increased by the wide bearing at the bottom and the pilasters pi lasters on the bides near the center atthe building the ground is not very solid thus necessitating pile driving upon the top of the piles will be concrete work making a solid bearing all around besides aliis there are consecutive rowa of piers made of solid cemented rock masonry upon which will rest the evaporating pana and heavy machinery weighing upwards of one hundred tons over twelve hundred perches of rock will be in the foundation alone all of which lias been hauled from beyond the jordan a distance of six miles on wagons it will require brick for the building which will be shipped from cottonwood near salt lake city the aiu grande western railway company has in a switch to delayer the brick and other materials for the building the wing of tha engine and boiler will be forty feet wide and the same leight as the main building leading from this a deep sewer drain that ill carry off all the waste water used in washing beets the sewer drain is all arched oyer with solid brick work just north of the main burldine buil dine will rebuilt be built the beet sheds on both sides of a large sluice flume into which the beets will be dropped by means of short plank upon which the beets are piled alie sheds and sluice will extend five hundred and fifty feet from the building so that in through ahe flume that distance they will be perfectly clean aal ready for process A heavy steam pump will force the water from the reservoir into the ceat the ciper end of the beat abeda taylor eorney armstrong of salt lake city have the contract for furnish ini the lumber aich is all sawed to order in oregon and shipped direct to the plant atia thought anai in the early part of april next the building will be complete and ready for the machinery batea byer co of the alvarado cuaar v orka have drawn all of the patterns and ds igus for the refilling ma chinery hi nery and say it will be superior to any in the would choie being out two other such works as this where the liquid is refined and by the one process in all other works be ides these alie raw augar is shipped to other to be refined california and dakota have the only two in america and utah can of having the finest plant extant an expert from the companas comp anys headquarters in albarado Ald arado is in cleveland ahio overseeing the work on the machinery the plant wll be to tarn oat thirty tons of purely sugar every twenty four hours and to produce beets enough to run the works avo months not less thousand and five hundred acres should be planted it i now a definite although the company will complete a first class sugar making and refining works the success of the project depends upon the peoples interest in the industry there can be no sugar if the people dont raise the beets and we are all aare that there is not a more favored climate known our vegetables and fruits in flavor are surpassed by none in the world which means eliat in them are tho properties we most reed in our fruit canning and sharar making industries to a success of any one it must receive specific attention for on a general ecale one tiling becomes a perfect success and a pi bof yf aliis i in the of the leading sf eddmen of tho world never until aliey made the industry specific could they succeed so in kentucky where at one time alie were content to raise a little of everything in their gardens and plantations now there are thousands of acres of land producing nothing but pears grapes peaches or some other specific class of brorn the people athirst at first thought as does many of our farmers that we cannot live if we do not raise wheat potatoes and in fact a little of everything in use in california where we know millions of bushels of wheat were raised the establishment 0 the suar works fumed the attention of the farmers to beet raising and one crop proved that ahe same land will produce twenty tons of beets 4 per ton which equals soper aira and on the same soil twenty bushels of wheat eighty cents per bushel equals but 18 never in dry seasons has the average crop of beets been less than fifteen auns tuns per acre which failure we can here obviate by irrigation A few figures will practically demonstrate the matter as by what has been done in california enero there is nothing more favorable there than here in utah for the beet crop EXPENSES OX ONE ACRE for first plowing 10 inches deep second lt G harrowing seeding 4 50 1 hobine weeding etc 2200 hauling to factory 75 per ton 1125 total cost the above figures are on fifteen tons per acre 4 per too and this company offers per ton which in ordinary years would amount to 90 for twenty tons of beets allowing the conscientious farmer to be the judge none can say that wheat or any of our crops can compare with the sugar beet raising as ha been and is demonstrated rated at the alvarado works california as also in the same kin d of lant in nebraska mr dyers long experience in the business leads him to assert that he has seen no more favorable locality lor the business than utah county the bench lands he saya are the choicest spots for the beets because the land pi deduces educes saccharine and not water in so destroy the granulating process the dyer sugar company an california have already let their contracts for beet raising next summer which shows bow eager the farmers are to raise them with our plant the company will have experts in every department for one year to operate and perfect the project fhe seed is already ordered from germany where the greatest has been made in beet raising there will be four different kinds of seed so that out of all that most adapted to our soil will be used the company will sell the seed to the farmers and let the contracts for raising the beets every person will sign a contract to plant a certain number of acres and the company contracts to pay him for every ton of beets seeders made for the express purpose of sowing the seed will be shipped here and sold to the farmers large plows will also be introduced to pass between kovs and loosen alie beets alius dispensing with the old way of digging them when the crop has matured some may ask how will villages be bene fitted by the beet raising industry are far from the plant in other places where the suar industry is carried on the railroads make special rates for beet growers and the present company insures the people that reasonable rites will be obtained and those far cherest from the works cm c m ship their beets at a cost less than 50 acts per ton in grand island nebraska railroad aratea were procured and sixteen different cities a bonus of nave a plant established on the same scale sanpete val ey in the south salt lake valley in the north may send beet i to theae works before a dollars worth of stock in this company was taken by the public two hundred dollars worth was taken by private parties showing that the latter leave faith in the enterprise and are in earnest the savings alone to our territory from the products of thia plant will amoun tto over a half a million dollars a year and there as no reason why there should not be sugar factories all through the territory tor the inducements are greater than all other industries utah might just aa well furnish lier sister sugar as to purchase from france and germany the government offers two cents bounty per for every pound produced for five years and the territory one cent per pound providing that it does not exceed thirty thousand dollars in any one year cirii tima hint taft study this question in all of its phases and prepare to advance one more step in the scales of progression in a few days the grand formal ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the immense works will take place elias morris the noted contractor and builder is having the corner stone prepared in which will be cut a cavity of sufficient size to admit of the articles of actions aad such other valuables as may be deposited by the stockholders and other parties interested upon this stone will then be built the walls and in ages to come those who look into chev treasure vault will see the safe keepings of the sugar companas comp anys friends and the first effort made in the laudable lau dible industry |
