Show HISTORY OF UTAH SUGAR BEET tEET it is not generally known that the first experiments in beet sugar culture in the united states were made by the mormons cormons in 1851 L the men who took the most prominent part in winging out the machinery was phillip I 1 de la mare who is still living in tooele thoele city he ras was baptized by wi C dunbar in england in 1849 and at the request of elder john taylor raylor who was then filling a anis mission sion in europe he went with him to france to investigate the beet sugar industry taylor having been especially instructed by president brigham young to keep on the lookout for industries that would be suitable tot lot thestil the soil of utah taylor and de la mare investigated the growth of sugar beets first in in the village of aris a little town in northern france they were so sanguine that they went immediately to england to raise the necessary capital from among the wealthy church members jno W coward a salt dealer subscribed capitain Capita tn russell a ship builder agreed to contribute mr collison then P a boot aad chos dealer in liverpool fo for r whom president jno R winder was working when he first learned of mormonism contributed the first subscription ol of was made by mr de la mare himself the coin company pany whose capi talisa tion was began under t the e name of the deseret manufacturing i n g 60 company mcany taylor and de dimare la mare then proceeded to purchase the machinery ind and prepare it for shipment to utah it was bought from fauset chojn co in the fall of 1851 on january januar 10 1852 de la mare left liverpool for st louis mo the machinery fol lo wrig we next with ellis elias morris 1 L john nuttall wm nuttall Nul tall and jos ios nuttall in charge they met in st iddis where mr de la mare had prepared wagons ready to load the M machinery i for the great journey across the plains from the time it left st louis until the arrival in in utah he was U ij complete charge ilis his wife and three children accompanied him on the way the little ones were seized with cholera one of them dying and being buried on the plains the fifty wagons on which the machinery was loaded proved to be useless breaking down under the weight of the machinery and they were mostly given away to poor families on their way to utah the situation was desperate but with characteristic energy mr de DC la mare determined to surmount the obstacles and meeting charles H perry a non mormon he purchased 40 big santa fe wagons adso also obtaining a large amount of flout flour and the company set out again the flout flour latar proved to be filled with p plaster ster of paris and had to be thrown I 1 away the ta e caravan of machinery now in increased i by a number of emigrant families set out from ft leavenworth in tn july 1852 the wagons were drawn by from four to eight yoke of oxen and each wagon carried to pounds of iron and machinery chi at the mouth of the sweet water river the first snow storm was encountered many of the cattle stampeded and were lost the food ran low and they were forced to kill some of the remaining cattle affairs looked dark for them but a relief party in charge of jos home came out to meet them at pt briger again assistance was received A 0 and a party coming from salt lake with a load of flour which at that time sold at 50 a hundred pounds on reaching bear river the snow was so deep that several of the large boilers had to be left behind but they were brought to the valley the next spring in the latter part of november 1852 the party finally cane came ca ne to rest est jp salt lake nearly six months having iangbein spent in t traveling ravel ingia 3 a alst 1 1200 miles the reason why the beet sugar industry was not successful at that lime aime is fi familiar millar history no means had been provided for getting rid of the potash and the in the beets and the methods then prevailing of using charcoal made from the bones of animals were equally difficult to supply at such a remote dij tance from the center of trade five hundred bushels ol of beet sugar seed were brought here with the machinery and planted the beets grew well but it was found impossible to granulate the sugar obtained the machinery was used for other purposes parts of it befog kept in provo and other parts pails taken to the old so called sugar factory at twelfth south and eleventh eist the name given that locality for so many years sugar house had bad its origin from the early attempts in beet sugar manufacture the fact however remains that the enterprise was the first one devoted to beet sugar culture ever organized in amer america ic a and the beet sugar machinery brought over the ocean up the mississippi and across the plains by a company of mormon elders was the first ever shipped into the world the ogden standard |