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Show PAGE TEN uEkjfJ' ' JC.. 44tr !' .Lii j:- ' y rar' : 1 TI - p - 11--'-- ui l:w' ' ' ' i '3 ' '.' - . , , a ' ' ' 1 Mill me plume of steam against the winter sky over the Garland sugar factory gives evidence from afar these days that the bumper 1972 crop of Utah sugar beets is being processed into pure, white, sparkling sugar. hours a day, Twenty-fo- ur seven days a week, the factory has operated through the fall and winter months, working its way slowly through the small mountains of sugar beets piled at receiving stations during the harvest season. A I More than 350,000 tons of sugar beets were received at U and I stations during the harvest, grown on about 18,000 acres in the Bear River Valley and other major U and I producing areas of the state, which include Davis and Weber Counties, Salt Lake and Utah Counties. Many beets are piled at receiving stations during the busy harvest period, then latand taken to er are the factory by railroad or truck. The Garland sugar factory celebrates its 70th birthday in 1973, 1903, '''nfi&2 n I'M n a EL Li 0 mountains of sugar beets rise each fall at sugar company receiving stations in the Bear River Valley and other growing areas Small of Utah. Hundreds of laboratory tests dally assure a quality product is delivered by the Garland sugar factory. having gone on stream in but the plant has been modernized so many times during its history that not a great deal still exists of the original installation. For example, the factory originally had capacity to process 600 tons of sugar beets in 24 hours. Now it has capacity to process about 2,700 tons of beets daily, an increase of four and one-ha- lf times. - r"- y$rZ- - foS i , i 0 Steam The Garland factory in its "campaign" or operating season that ended last spring produced 89,500,000 pounds of pure white sugar from 1971 crop beets, which was very close to record of 90,000, the all-ti000 pounds of sugar produced from the 1965 crop. It may well be that production from the 1972 crop which is now being processed will be at a new all-tirecord level. Going back which moves the diffuser in processing, to the beet juice'"-- : by pipeline front:j to its next steprj; we find the iuice'lvJ arriving at a car Donation stat--:;- ::: n mfllf iiiiiiv rf lime; atiu. y ij. lima tlrltA VQ nii&i& t WAjii) remove impirities that have:S been diffused from the beet fi a-- me To see how sugar is made from beets, let's follow a railroad car of beets to the factory. Upon arrival at the factory, the rail car is unloaded over a hopper. A flume filled with water carries the beets into the beet washer building. The water begins the washing of the beets and helps remove rocks and other heavy materials, which sink to the bottom, the beets are washed thoroughly, then carried" on a conveyor belt to the slicers where revolving knives cut the beets into thin strips known as and which look somepota-t- oe thing like french-frie- d s. The beet strips then move into a unit known as the diffuses where hot water removes sugar from the beet cells by osmosis. The juice is collected and moves along toward purification and subsequent steps. The beet strips from which the sugar has been removed now are taken to a drier where their moisture is taken out and molasses added. This molasses dried beet pulp is a highly nutritious livestock feed. cos-sett- es, itid1 it it a la in airaAiQmi llfntAW rrusw nnnnanTraraA nana rr KomAva'. fWVIU haAAtMAA n taa vif atirrQv 'rhi a iiiiiQ rnan daoo m micro vapiiiim ittlAti fet 9 none urhoin nA 4 ia ennAreafiira tof'-- frm rv 4vwt Kii4lA4 nn1oi TaVUUlU W1U11I1 . KJXA UllVfw A lfiAtnitvl OTvefa Is nf th A A ci rp H c i 7 P Iv.' CUlVl way the molasses that accomp- - x aniAa tha aiirrar loovino it mam. v ing white crystals. Hot air then is useu vj remove diij iiiuisi- ure, and the sugar is ready for;!? transporation to the huge bulk . Mm af the fanfnrv nr fnr nark aging lnro any 01 we u anu i . : i no i .Qriann ranmrv iq rn fiOf 000 fnr tranennrt- -: ahnui tion services in the state, and x 900 000 lnt"v novo mrwa Ihan ravoo 9T aii iaiu i a rT trnvp riis ' m r nui?ac mnra rnn iiiiii iii- - |