| Show LL In nth the h e Beg Beginning B e g inn I n n i n g 9 By J. J Cecil cedi Alter er 0 The First Sugar Sugar- The ine first commercially successful success success- ful ul sugar making in Utah began in rn 1891 at the Lell sugar factory still in m partial use Forty of or years experimentation experimentation ex ex- was discarded when in m 1890 this modern plant was erected erected erected erect erect- ed in accordance with plans and processes which were very largely perfected elsewhere The first trainload trainload trainload train- train load of Ot granulated sugar manufactured manufactured in m Utah moved from the lao fac tory October 17 1891 A worthy predecessor was the plant of Aron Arthur Arthur Ar- Ar thur Stayner of Farmington which on in 1882 produced 40 pound bags of crystallized sugar spurred by an offer of from front the Utah legislature legis legis- lature and 1200 from from the government govern govern- ment for the first pounds of merchantable sugar ugar produced wholly wholly ly within the state It was Stayner and associates who organized the Utah Sugar company in 1899 and erected the Lehi factory Following the narrative in retrograde retrograde retro retro- grade the first settlers in Utah's Dixie beginning about 1860 learned that that warm climate would mature mature ma ma- ture the Chinese sugar cane and from it they produced molasses that was wu superior to the thc ordinary sor sor- The sugar residue from boiling boil boil- ing it down to the limit was wac also usable as a confection and for or some table purposes But it was during the eighteen fifties that the pioneers strove hardest to obtain sweets they all craved S so hungrily and could not buy Syrup From Box Boc Elders In the spring of 1856 George Wardie Wardle War War- f die dle IC of fit Box Elder C county exhibited In Salt Lake City a specimen of or beau beautifully clear and remarkably sweet and pleasant flavored syrup made from front the box elder without having undergone undergo and cleansing process Mr Wardle Wardie explained that the run of sap from the box el elder el- el der trees was vas similar to that from the sugar maple with which he was familiar in the east But the thc Utah box elder growths were more like shrubbery than forest trees and the yield of syrup and sugar was littie lit lit- tie tle more than experimental affording affording afford- afford In ing a confection rather than a table food In Inthe the spring or early summer of 1855 1853 the townspeople of ot Pr Provo vo discovered a sweet sweetish h sticky sUcky sap or exudation on the leaves and twigs of or the trees and turned out in swarms to gather it The Thc leaves were taken along alons with bushels of ot twi twigs s cut cul off oU and soaked in water and washed clear of the saccharine substance The water was then boiled like sap to the syrup stage and then the sugar stage In some respects it is said to have resembled resembled bled maple sugar but the twigs and leaves Imparted to it a bitter taste which prevented Brigham Young from when sampling the specimens sent him However it il made the columns of or orthe the Deseret News Sugar From Beets White sugar beets carrots parsnips pars nips melon rinds corn stalks and fruit had yielded a little molasses In home manufacture but still the people were usually half hall starved for sweets molasses seems to have been common enough but it served not at all as sugar in m fine line cooking and for drinks generally The white beet from the start offered offered offered of of- the thc best promise for it could apparently be grown abundantly preserved economically and used by each family for tor making makin a home variety of or syrup and a coarse Uncompleted uncompleted uncompleted un un- completed sugar The general epistle of or the church for April 1851 says We have learned for a certainty that with little labor any family which has a supply of at bee beets can make themselves themselves them them- selves comfortable for molasses though the art of removing the gas and foreign matter is Js not sufficiently sum sum- understood to secure so perfect perfect per per- feet an n article a. a ax as is desirable As Asa a consequence emigrants were urged to bring to Ut Utah h all th the white sugar beet seed obtainable which each family could plant with witha a view to making its own syrup and sugar This resulted in a considerable acreage ace of beets in tte tle crop season of or 1851 and no less than three molasses molasses mo tao- lasses factories sprang up in Salt Lake City S. S M. M Blair of the Fourteenth Fourteenth Four Four- ward advertised November 15 IS 1851 1831 he had fitted up a plant to towo wo work k the beet hect up into molasses cs or sugar u ar if it the su sugar ar beet can be had he be interposed implying his belief the wrong kind of beets were being planted They did have the sugar beet but the chemistry and mechanical mechanical me rae- processes were as elusive as the alchemy of making gold out of lead Blair was read ready to receive bushels of or beets also parsnips and carro carrots Molasses Made on Shares At the time Joseph Young Burr Frost and William Freely advertised advertised adver adver- Used Beet this who can The undersigned undersigned undersigned un un- un- un would give notice to the citizens of Deseret that they are manufacturing molasses from the b beet t at Burr Frosts Frost's on Emigration street one and a halt hall blocks east of City creek bridge To all who have havea I Ia a surplus of beets carrots or or parsnips and md will bring brIn them to our molasses factory well cleaned as asfor asfor asfor for family use we will make from them all the molasses we can and return the owners of the vegetables one half of ot the molasses made Those who are in want of sweetening sweeten sweeten- ing log and are disposed to encourage domestic manufactures will do dowell dowell dowell well to call soon as the earlier the thc vegetables are used the better Molasses Molasses Mo Mo- lasses for sale at our factor factory Alfred Alfred Al Al- Alfred fred B. B Lambson's su sugar ar establishment establishment establishment is at my blacksmith shop in the Seventeenth ward Freighting First Fiut Mill 1111 In Meanwhile John Taylor in charge of of f the French mission not a sugar manufacturer purchased for the Deseret Manufacturing Manufacturing Manu Manu- company which he organized organized organ organ- new machinery and apparatus for a sugar factory The apparatus was shipped b by boat to New Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans and thence to Fort Leavenworth Leavenworth Leaven Leaven- worth where more than teams of oxen hauled it overland to Salt Lake City I The train arrived here in the late autumn of 1852 and md the plant was at once assembled in part only to discern that by some ome inadvertence load a number of or important retorts had b been n omitted by the designer designer designer de de- de- de signer and the manufacturer Filled with consternation at expending pending a fortune and find finding Ins themselves still stillman man many marty thousand dollars a year ear or two at least from success the promoter promoters pro pro- promoters moter were more than glad to turn th the empty sug sugar r sack over to the church to hold |
