| Show III 1 ii JI I I Wh Why Y T IE F First t E II Or S T S ug r M kr Jg IN UTAH r F Ie I d i I I iI for tor tho News t I r I I Oct 7 reat with I the tho pier by I lenry fenry II ot of Ogden on beet lIet culture In an In 7 the tho Newa ot of Sept 21 Any ny nyron ron sho ho will take the limo to renil 4 1 paper will bo well ell 1 for tor their trouble In the tho knowledge It on the beet heet CUlture In this heide other othor irn Information on different sub subject which the i In the tho under the tho betiding of It Early Iny I some BOrno which I desire to correct In ju lice to John Taylor Mid th few tew men iIo pent Ih their lr money In InI I I bringing the sugar ugar making machin t I cry cry Into Utah nfl for tor that matter Into tho United I In his that It H was wai tho crude condition ot of the tho ma machinery chinery operated II bY men mell wh un in In its that wan the causo caISe of at the In milking sugar with the fIrst sugar brought to Utah Now what are 1110 the tho facts In the ca case I I Apostle Jahn accompanied b bI I the writer visited tile tho sugar factory I 11 nt at Arms Arral l where wo we wot t not onlY hall had the ot of seeing the machinery In operation hut but through the coulte courtesy y ot of the tho owners wo we end plans ot of every overy ot of mn ma machinery I jl chinery at work worl In hi the factory A tic I tory lory that ivan turning out at that time A AI I from to of beet every With ticie antI In his retUrn CI iI to and wan hero tul ful in III organizing a called The I company compan with witha n a paid up of at Capt nUll flun loll ecu ot of John W of at and Philip Pe Do Lit In Mare MaIo ot Jersey furnishing the tho capital together with John Taylor who sito was th pr of at tho company Tie Tho money cured and the tho organ complete no time was lost In starting to work on the tho suat making To expedite lIto business the contract or building the whole ot of the I Wall aI given to 10 thu firm of at Fawcett Co lit of who built the machinery on the plaits by the Arms Arnn company with this exception that thu Iho pre prea s 1 Indor wore nero made mude ot of wrought Iron In iii order to 10 leusen their weight tor or trans the an idea Idell that hy by John Fay TilY lor and which afterwards the manufactOry ot of wrought Iron suns Buns by br that flint When Whon the wan It Will san n a doss sugar factory and on em board tho th a 1 sail al its Ins lit itt Liverpool to he be lit New NOlI Your humble was hy by thu tho company to go co or of thA to 10 superintend l and pc I a II see that the tho machinery AA AAA was WIlS d In City the lit at liL to 10 put the sugar plant up On the at New NelV Or OrIean lonn strange to say we met mel our first the Iho United Statu revenue moers ut at that Ihal port Jort a duty on the sugar plant ot of MOO In gold which Wall pall not nol a ot of which has over ever beon refunded although Prel President dent Taylor went to Wn Washington und through our delegate Dr male macle at that time to hao the tho money to the sugar company To tell the thc progress of at that machinery from New to Utah would b be too lone a 11 story much or of which was printed In Ih the De eret News ot of March darch 27 ISO 1807 but the tho that beset buet Us its on every side and the expenses we had to meet fills mo me today with anton and onder o Orders Ill had been Rent neat ahead from Nell r ew York for tor 62 which were mulo at Council but they were unfit for tor use and I had to cast them aside neldo and contract for tor enough santa Fo Fe to haul that sant amount ot of machinery to utah To secure yoke of at Oxen I had to travel miles muon of at country away awny from rein my base baso of at sup piles cad the outfitting points on the therl rl river vcr Oh I really hudder now when I think ot of the tho work I had to do lit at that time we got here and according to the theIn In which I had received I landed lundell the machinery safe In Provo city nu flut t afterwards It was moved to toA A A A AA Salt ait Lake City where a ot of tha Will was erected In a 11 hot hoton on the tho northeast corner ot of the tho Temple Templo block where It mn made lo It its first run and Its Ita In making hero IINO let me take up the other part ot of Judge inference time the Cut tUI manipulators employed With the machinery John Taylor sent lent the most expert workmen workman anti and sugar that could be III his hll tra travels yell Ellen Ellaa Morris wan en engaged engaged in III to como come with the plant and put up tile tho buildings s for tor the tho fee tory JQhn J hn Vernon an expert and corn com competent engineer ot of HUll huh and who wan wall engaged In the tho construction ot of the mit ma WAS secured to come to 10 Utah and supervise the erection or of the tho ante Mr Mi an expert sugar pinker maker and was wan placed In charge ot of the ot of he hc plant John and Mr Connor who had v 11 lii a sugar augar factory In also engaged to conic como and take their places In sugar making In Utah So o It cnn can be that noth nothing Ing was overlooked In this thin line to 10 show that any unskillful labor was engaged to run the first sugar making er ery ever brought to Utah or to the tho United Sl So complete completo were the plans ot of nr Taylor In every do tail that I cven ven had 1 made In LIverpool t up tUe tHo refuse ot of the Juice Into aico alcohol ol And AmI so that every everything everything thing would be more sUre than another 10 canes ot of beet need 00 to the tho thoA A A A s A brought along with the tho mo ma machinery chinery to mao make even that part sure euro Now I will toll you wh why sugar mak makIng lug Ing tailed When time tho plant watt was started In the tho tall fall ot of 1851 what machinery ry vas used ran rail nit nil right Oiled filled every overy reasonable expectation The Tho however hat had been grown on the tho lowlands and the Juice was Oiled filled with mineral and was wan dark When we started the Iho first thing that Mr called for tor was the tha rotors retorts but we soon l we had hai haino no retorts rhut Important part ot of the sugar lugar making machinery had never been ordered as they were not In the tho plans that ivero given by the Aires company to us Mi 11 had supposed alt all the time they ther had coma romo aloM wit the machinery nn and when he found out different ho he wn wa mind disappointed In the tho flut Dut there thero we vo were what could we wedo wedo do Those retorts were the cast Iron ovens wherein the Iho bones bonel were burned to snake make tho anImal charcoal that had to 10 bo be used to clarity clarify and purity tho Juice julo ot of the tho beet before It could bo be granulated and made Into sugar This was a fatal talal mishap and that time tho matter mattei for tor that season as asfar tar far us sugar W l concerned hut But It If that had been all the matter they could have been ordered and im portell tor or next seasons use But DUl the tho tact fact wan the tho company received such op opposItion posItion tram quarters not expected it l was broken up an and l dIsheartened The Tho AuA AAA A A A A AA A A did not receive tIm sit they thoy had been promised They hall had spent Jont all their funds uni were In debt were sere with Hh no nannA menne to lay Ilay then them and to clear up With those we owed WI we turned l thu tha plant over to the tho Church with Ith tie the un that they thoy th debts that worn against Us And that wall wait the tho end of at the tho matter with tho th Manufacturing Company Per Pur Personally I came camo out ot of the affair without II a dollar to my maine and had to start life lite anew with my wife chili child to support In lon I will state that Mr and myself I guther tow few bones and burned thorn them In a pit and train the fey tew honor We wo we d II a few tew ot of the tho black hoot syrup until It was Vas as clear as aim crystal anti that the Iho could be made all l nil all that was needed Iao ait un an abtin dance ot of animal clarifying matter ann had wo we that Utah would have made mado beet sugar 20 ahead l ot of any nuy other oilier part ot of the tho United States Being the tho only surviving member ct cC the tho original company and an 19 my days may not be long upon this land I desire to this much In behalf of the honor ot of PresIdent John TaYlor an th other tow few men lien that spent theIr tIme timid money no 80 freely treely to tr tl and Ind e tall lish lieu the first sugar factory In Utah DE LA MAnn AA A AA AA |
