Show THE UTAH SUGAR FACTORY for several years the question of manufacturing beet sugar in utah had been agitated and not without a degree of success for early in the spring 0 1891 a body of ablest men me in lehi to decide upon a place for the location of a factory different places were discussed and their facilities shown up among which were salt lake city ogden logan and lehi the latter being the preference of about two thirds of the assembly was at length selected the contract of building was given to mr dyer a california su sugar or manufacturer fac and under his skilful direction the beautiful structure reached completion in september of the same year and thus in less than nine months one half million of dollars was expended to add to the industrial enterprises of utah the building has an immense capacity and its massive brick walls enclose several hundred carloads car loads of the finest german machinery near the factory there are three sheds each of which is five hundred feet long the beets are stored away in these sheds and are carried into the factory by a stream of water which serves to wash them at the same time here they are dropped into a large elevating wheel which carries them to the cutter cul ter next we see them in V shaped pieces about one inch long they now slide down the shoot into the batteries where an intense pressure is placed upon them in order to extract the juice here the pulp and juice are separated the former being carried away and stored in cellars for use as food and the latter continuing its course through the mill the juice is now taken into the car bina tors where it is mixed with limewater and ana carbonic gas this pre precipitates cepl i i the solid matter in the juice after about twenty minutes it is pumped through the liter filter presses where all of the lime and dirt are taken from now the clear sweet juice is carried into the evaporators where it is mixed with carbonic or acid on becoming a syrup it is strained through boneblack bone black which takes away the sorghum color so common in granulated sugar it is now stored away in large tanks tank so and there left to crystallize cryst alize A few days later the crystallized juice is poured into the mixer and after being thoroughly mixed passes into a large vat below under which are five trifu gals the are for the purpose of throwing out all of the juice and leaving the white crystals of sugar from here the sugar is dropped into the drying room where the moisture is removed from it and it is ready for sacking there is demand for all the sugar that can be manufactured at this mill for it is in in quality second to none in the united states FRANK EVANS lehi utah |