Show THE SUGAR INDUSTRY SALT LAKE CITY march 1889 to av all persons inte interested in the deva development of the resources resource 8 of utah your attention is ia invited to the feasibility and practicability of establishing tab lishing the industry of making sugar in this is territory amongst the many articles of importation por tation for which we have been paying large sums of money annually the article of sugar stands forth prominently as one of the most costly for many years there existed a grave doubt whether or not the soil and climate of this territory were suitable to the profitable production of sugar from any known sugar bearing plant but experiments made here during the past few years with sorghum cane and the introduction of the principle of diffusion in the extraction of the juice have placed beyond doubt the practical and profitable production of sugar from that plant and this success be being i assured it is confidently believed believe ng that beets beete raised here in carefully selected localities can also be worked for sugar as readily and profitably as those raised in california where the beet sugar production is a pronounced success chemical analysis has demonstrated that sorghum raised here contains from one to three per cent more saccharine than the cane worked profitably and successfully at fort scott kan kansas and there is no doubt that all bearing plants raised in this altitude and dry climate will contain more saccharine than those raised in localities ot ol lower altitude and greater humidity it has also been clearly shown by our own experience here and by the experience of the sorghum sugar manufacturers in the east and by the best sugar producers of the west that with cane at 3 and beets beeta at 4 per ton of two thousand pounds sugar can be manufactured at a profit and from information received from the beet sugar works at alvarado where the process is now in successful Ope operation UtiOn su sugar ar can be refined in tile the course of of manufacture from the juice thus overcoming the last difficulty that lies in the way of producing for our marke tanj from the crude elements an article of white bite sugar equal in quality to the best imported As this industry when fully established will provide labor for hundreds save the outgo of a very large amount annually and yield a good profit to investors we recommend it to the careful consideration and palpable support of all who desire to aid in the development of the resources of our territory the foregoing is issued as a circular and is signed by the following gentlemen wilford woodruff lorenzo snow F D richards george Q cannon joe JOB F smith francis fraccis na M lyman john henry smith john W young angus M cannon francis armstrong ellas elias morris A 0 smoot S j P Tea adel charles W hardy chas chaa W stay stayner ner oscar H hardy L W shurtliff orson F whitney samuel bennion W A rossiter Bos J M whittaker geo D aper lohn john W hops hess S R marks jesse W fox henry wallace P F A mitchell daniel stuart J W sah sheu heber M wells H B clawson B R K thomas leonard G hardy arthur stayner |