Show SHALL WE MAKE SUGAR some telling points in favor of th tb Eliter prise to successfully commence and continue new bew and useful industries I 1 is 8 generally connected with the creation of new veins in the commercial network if today it was a pioneer industry in etab to manufacture ma nu facture wheat into flour a million of dollars would nave have to bu be spent io in building grist mills but it is today a 9 fact that utah consumes at least as much in value or OF SUGAR as it consumes in value of bread yearly which former is all imported hut but could be produced and manufactured at home supposing now that with the knowledge we have about the production and aid manufacture nf int flour this flour industry was not cowin commenced eacek and that we imported our supply of that article would we not at once set out raise the wheat build the arist mills and manufacture the flour yes we would why because we lire are acquainted with it but what about the sugar industry 0 only nav a very few persons in utah are at all acquainted with it that is what is the matter in titter utah imports yearly about one and a quarter million dollars dortu of ugar syrup and candy or utah hires the work of about bands the year roundtop round to produce and manufacture the sweets aich A our territory consumes and aad again people of utah leave bome to obtain work somewhere else this needs no comment in the fall of 1870 the writer of this article made it known through the DESERET NEWS that he had MADE SUGAR J i n paying qu quan antles ties from the early amer cane sometime later latar arthur arlhur stayner esq announced to the same effect laier again I 1 was waa convinced by years of exper experience leace that even at an altitude of feet on the sevier arver the early amber would yield splendid ripe crops proving provi bg to me that ithac more than half ot of the valleys of utah could produce ripe sorghum cane of the early kind and dixie of the later kinds 1 I as stated after seven years experience made it ft known that raw sugar could be made in utah at five cents per pound professor collier late of the agricultural department has demonstrated the tact for over ten years that sorghum pro produced ducet suc crose or sugar which can caa be produced by the diffusion process at one cent per pound for the last two aars the agricultural department at its sugar plant at fort scott kansas has through the diffusion process obtained at leapt W 2 or per cent more sugar than old milling process hence it is reasonable to conclude that sugar can now be PRODUCED IN UTAH by the diffusion process for a good deal less than bian five cents per pound ariere is therefore no doubt that it will oe profi profitable Gable for utah to td begin to produce its own sugar candy and mo asses and let it be remembered that aur ur mountain altitude seems beems very easily to produce saccharine matter and that in well cultivated cane the juice holds a goodly degree of sugar the analysis or ol sugar beet raised here on only hall half cultivated fields showed 15 per cent suc crose when those from the east did not average 11 per cent and nearest neighbors consume yearly more than pounds of sugar candy and molasses and it will require a crop of not less thlu thin acres to produce the above quantity in every prominent valley a plant should be established with the tae concomitants concomitant and adjacent diffusion batteries there ought tobe to be built this leason season at least PLANTS with one Te refinery finery in a central place where pure water cau can be had with the necessary diffusion establishments at the cost of not much less than half a million dollars and also the contract should be made with neighboring farmers forthe raising of the required amount of cane before spring tois would create a most life giving vein in our industrial conditions and wake up many of our citizens to work for our material interest I 1 venture to propose that an organ az at once be made for this purpose if another season is not to be lost it ia i time for this most profitable enterprise to be pushed forward I 1 C A MADSEN Gun gunnison Gu nuison iAson oct 31 1887 |