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Show The Beet Sugar Indus' ry. A report Issued by tho agiicultural department in Washiutou on the beet augur industry in this country ehons that tho tolnl number of factorlca in opciatiou last year wns thirty with a capacity of 1U.100 toni of beets. California Cali-fornia had eight factories with a capacity ca-pacity of 11,000 tons, and Micliiiai had ulno factories. In that State a bounty of a cent a pound on rellued sugar was olloicd by a laiv passed in 1807. In Utah thoiearo two CH.ablishments nourishing without bounty and without tax exemption. The icport says one mill iri under construction, leferriug probably to the ono that linn been dlj-cuspcd dlj-cuspcd for some time by euterprhing farmers of tho Sun pete mid Sevier count ien. Bounties aro paid undo." certain conditions con-ditions to beet sugar relliieiH in New York, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Washington, and in each of these States a beginning has been made to raise eugn1- boets and extract tho sugar. Two factories ure aid to bo under con-btructiou con-btructiou in Colorado, ono in Ohio, one in New York and ono in Michigan. The entire consumption uf sug.u in tills country 1800, was 2,001,010 tons, of which 100,400 tons wns domestic canu sugar and 70,308 tons domestic beet sugar. Less than 0,000 tons of rcllned beet 6iigar was imported, but nearly 273,000 tons of the raw product was brought thcro. Fully three-quarters of our supply was foreign cano sugar, nioately icllned in this country. Of (he rellncd sugar consumed 3.1 per cent wns tlio product of our beet sugar factories. |