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Show THE SUGAR FACTORY. Twenty-Four Carloads of Machinery Arrive, And Is Being Set Up In the Massive Brick Structures. Thirty-Five Tons of Sugar to Be Manufactured Every Twenty-Four Hours. On Thursday a representative of the News visited the sugar factory, in Utah county, In order that the people of the Territory might be informed, through the columns of this journal, concern-, ine the progress being made in establishing estab-lishing what is destined to be, for many years to come, the chief industry of Utah. For the means of attaining the object in view the news-gleaner is indebted in-debted to Mr. C. A. Granger, who, during a temporary absence of Superintendent Super-intendent Thomas 11. Cutler, was in full charge of the general business of the factory. He also assists the manager man-ager when the latter is at home. Mr. Granger is active and energetic, and has the advantage of being conversant con-versant with all the details connected with the manufacture of refined sugar, having been employed for some time by E. II. Dyer and Company in their factory at Alvarado, California, the gentlemen who are erecting the Utah establishment and who have contracted contract-ed to run it for one year. During last winter Mr. Granger was engaged a good deal of his time in accompanying Supt. Cutler in visits to the settlements, settle-ments, delivering brief and explicit lectures to the farmers in relation to proper methods of raising beets, which is a vital branch oflhe sugar industry. The first impression made upon the visitor as he approaches the factory buildings is one of astonishment, caused by the magnitude of the structures. struct-ures. The attention is then instinctively instinct-ively directed toward the somewhat squatty aspect they present. The latter lat-ter appearance is created by the tremendous tre-mendous ground proportions compared to the height. This will be readily im agined when it is stated that the main building is 180 by 80 feet and .the annex an-nex 184 by GO feet. AH except a part of the annex is three stories high. There is a small structure on the roof of the main building which somewhat mars the general appearance of the latter. It is to accommodate the. vacuum pans, and it was deemed that it would be sheer extravagance to raise the main structure another stoiy for that object alone; hence the roof 'addition. 'addi-tion. The buildings are light colored brick, and have exceptionally strong foundations. founda-tions. In fact tiie whole premises are as near perfection in the matter of being be-ing substantial as they can well be. They are without crack or blemish. The contractor for the mason work is Mr. Eiias Morris, Mr. II. II. Evans being be-ing foreman on the ground. The latter lat-ter is one of the most careful workmen in the Territory. The interiors are heavily timbered, some of the beams being 16 x 16 inches, extending from floor to roof. The carpenter work is done by Taylor, Bomney & Armstrong. Mr. Busher, a very capable workman, is their foreman on the grounds. Toe company have begun the erection erec-tion or boarding house 70 iy 40 feet awl li'i--. c stories high, for the accommodation accom-modation of the workmen. In a short time the erection of beet sheds for storage purposes will be begun. be-gun. They will be between 400 and .500 feet long. These figures appear somewhat large. It muse be remem- I bered, however, that when the factory begins to run it will lake 350 tons of beets to keep it going to its :ull capacity capac-ity for each round of the machinery of thirty-six hours, and it costs as much to operate it fully as below the degree of which it is capable. Again, the compauy must possess facilities for receiving re-ceiving beets from the farmers at any time the latter may be prepared to deliver de-liver them. In relation to the buildings build-ings it is proper here to state, with no small degree of satisfaction, that the Messrs. Dyer assert that they are second sec-ond to those of no other sugar factory in the United States. It is impossible at this stage to give a definite idea of the character of the machinery at least not as the result of personal inspection. It will cause some astonishment, however, when it is stated as a fact that that wl ich is to be placed in the Utah fact uy is so extensive that it will require one hundred cars to convey it from Cleveland, Cleve-land, Ohio, where it is manufactured, to the grounds. Twenty-lour carloads car-loads had arrived just previous to the visit of the representative of the News, and with it tame an expert mechanical mechani-cal engineer to erect it. This gentleman gentle-man was just on the point of having it u; loaded, and masons were finishing finish-ing of the foundations for it, so it ni:i i taken for granted that the won; ; ni' i:i ing the machinery in position po-sition bus :iire idy begun. Son-e t:!iir since we published details de-tails the s;:gar factory established at Lincoln . Nebraska. We und'-r-stand that 1l:e building and capacity of that factory are about similar to that of the Utah concern. That of our Territory has, however, a decided advantage ad-vantage over that of Nebraska, for the reason that while ours will requ ire but one hundred men to operate it, the other will need one hundred and eighty, being nearly double. The reason rea-son for this difference is that the machinery ma-chinery in the Lincoln factory is of German make, while that being introduced in-troduced iuto the Utah establishment is American, the latter having been constructed with a special view to save manual labor. The Germans do not five as much attention to this point as do American inventors and machinists, for the reason that labor is comparatively cheap in the former country. The land sown in beets is quite extensive. ex-tensive. The acreage put to this important im-portant use by private individuals ( farmers) is 1800 acres, extending from Willard City, Box Elder county, in the north, to Leamington, Millard county, and Gunnison, San Pete county, in the south. The main bulk of the land thus utilized, however, lies in Salt Lake and Utah counties. Besides this large extent of ground devoted to beet-raising purposes by private parties, par-ties, the Sugar Company have 300 acres immediately north and contiguous con-tiguous to the factory, where the root is growing most promisingly. This makes a total acreage of 2,100 acres, on all of which, with the exception of a few patches, the sugar-producing roots are doing splendidly. The present pres-ent rains are most opportune for this department of the industry, and will dispense with the first appplication of irrigation. The lowest estimate of the average production of sugar beets is fifteen tons to the acre, with a possible pos-sible twenty-five tons. Basing the calculation "on the lower figures, the total result would be 31,500 tens. The capacity of tin factory is 350 tons of beets every thirty-six hours, the product pro-duct of which will be thirty-five tonsi of refined sugar every twenty-four hours, as the factory will be run day and night until the beet supply is con-i suused. The niht and day shifts will consist of fifty men each. As before Btated Messrs. E. II. Dyer & Co. are under contract to complete the entire construction, an d to run the factory for one year. Mr. E. F. Drer was on the ground when the News representative visited the buildings. "Is there the slightest room for doubt in relation to the success of the enterprise?" wras asked of that gentleman. "None in the least," was the ready response. "Give us the beets and we will produce pure refined sugar and in the proportions stated." It should also be said that the result will be in every particular the same as refined sugar produced from cane, there being no chemical difference between the two products.- The process pro-cess of manufacture will begin in September. "How long will it continue?" con-tinue?" was asked of Mr. Dyer. "It will last just as long as there are beets to put through the machinery," was the reply. The more one inquires into the subject of .manufacturing refined sugar from beets the more firmly convinced con-vinced one becomes that it will undoubtedly un-doubtedly be a grand and profitable success in Utah, and a great material blessing to the people of the Territory. At every step of the investigation doubt disappears before the encouraging encourag-ing roofs that rome into si hi. The superintendent, r.ishop Thomas B. (Juiler, is enthusiastic on the subject. He has followed it closely, and has expended ex-pended upon it a great deal of thought and energy. He works at it as if the fate of th world was hanging on the issue, this being one of the characteristics character-istics of his naturt in relation to any business project in which he engages. We feel sure that the result of the establishment of an industry so important im-portant as the one now treated will be all that its most euthuiistic supporters sup-porters have claimed for it. So may it be. |