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Show iw Lil tal Ot. I Mr.Weir of Oxnarcl Plant in Town. BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY Ten Thousand Miles of Sugar --Millions in it il United Stales Could Produce nil of Ita Own , Sweet Goods, :Mr. Weir, chief engineer of the Ox-innrd Ox-innrd sugar plants of California, who in on his way to Hocky Fold, was in the city Monday inspecting the plant of liio ITJtali company. Mr. Weir Is nu expert on sugar amf 'speaks highly of the Ut.ih wigar plant. THE BEET SUU.Vft INDUSTHY. In signed artlcla lecently, Suimtoi r ,, Lodtyssmd that "If ne assure n Mimkot ' 'I for sJgar we ahull solve the Cub.iu pro- i blem," and lie Added that the next ees- I sion of CngteKHught not to patH wbh- out action in this direction. We dp i.ot see that wo owe it to Cub.i to provi !o i market for her sugar. We have ijt. pended money by tho hundreds of mil Houh in Cuba's, cause, and that ae n! . light, because humanity ilciuumle I n and tho people unitedly called for that wur against Spain. That war alee liriiught ua the Phillppinu cpicbliun, Wllil'h i tO eOSt I1B HCOITH of laill'oilH '. - .more, nnd that is alright, too, though wo sorrow for our dead in both hernia- aa , phercs. Wo have championed the BjflHHttyt ', cause of the Cubans, and they are fico; IjlB. rthir destinies are in their own hands. RfnSB We have chnnipionid the cause of the InjotSB iFilipinos, and have given llieiu libo.-ty flSHHi rto'lAT ns they would accept it. If they aBB ihavnot had it in full measure, they SVwA'.oB -. iHiyo.caily-tlicmsolyes to charge w ith the, lade. AH tWs ,wu Imvo done in unstinted measuro and with n free hand, Wi huve done ul that wu net out to do. and moro. Hut thatis Jio icnsou wliy we should now go further, and ruin our own people to inake the Cubaus rich. Cuba iH ft great BUgar-piodueing country; il will not produce u heuvy tonnage thii year, probably, became many plnntn Uoiih wore ruined in tho.insurrection, und it takes five or six years for them to eomo into full production from tho seed ; but next year tho product will bo 7G),-000 7G),-000 tor.B, and tho year after, l,00',UUO tons, and the Increase will bo tileady from that on. This countiy imports an uverngo of 2,000,000 tons of raw sugar annually. It will not" be many yeais till Cuba will be able to supply all we want, and oven to ruin our beet-sugar induBtiics and the cme-sugar plantation i of Louisiana. Of beet, sugar we pro. duced last year 71,427 long tons, valued at $7,:i2:5,857. But. thcro were thirty-seven thirty-seven factories, with a capacity of 210.-000 210.-000 short tons yearly, and tiiis capacity has been added to the present year. Utah has added one factory to iho two tthat were in operation before, and we 'liouo and believe will add another next 1 year, in southern Sanpete or Savier equity, Hie ludustty is growimr tit a rapid rate, and we can without u decide get along very well without Oub'ii. nugar, if the Lcet-sngar producem are undisturbed, Germany make j 2,000,OPO tons of beet sugar yearly, and wo can do better than that ; all that is necessary ifc to assure this industry u futuro that will t .main as now, nnd tlicru need bo no tear but that we shall raise all the sugar wo want. Beet sugar is the coming industry in-dustry of the United States, and should be encouraged, not hninpeied, either by hostile enactments or by thicnta in tin intcrebt of Cubans or of any other alien people. IMPORTS OFiU. S. It Udlflkult for tho mind fully to comprehend tho statement that the United States is annually linpoitini: about 2,000,000 tonH of sugar. The thought instantly occurs, of course, that the figures represent n irountaiu of sweetness. TliuAmeiicnu mind, with its aptness for reducing things to a cash valuation, sees at once that there would be "millions in it" if the United States could produce all of ItB own sweet goods. Hut does anybody stop to llguio out lint aggregate sugar importation eo that tho mind may readily grasp It iniignl-tudi? iniignl-tudi? in Glance at this object lessons: One net ton 2000 pounds Is fair two-horeo wagon load on a aveingc country rondn. Team nnd wagon in the road rcquiro approximately twenty flvo fent of longitudinal room, allowing for a llttlo margin if other teams nro in lino. Now lond up that two million tons of sugar with one ton to each wagon, and start n procession from Ls Angeles eastward to well, wheruT Four of tho sugar turnouts would rench 100; forty of them would reach 1000 feet, nnd 200 of tbem would extend almost a mile call it a nillo for concession conces-sion in figuring. Then two thousand of them would reach eastward ten mile, 20,000 would stretch out 100 miles, 200,-000 200,-000 would cover 1000 miles, and tre 2,000,000 would stretch out 10,600 miles. Ten thousand miles of sugar the Unit od States is importing every year when every pound of it might ha produced at home. The lincia even longer than tlw figures indicate, in fact, because bulk sugar is marketed in gross Ions 2240 pounds. That nrids 12 per cent 'to tW total weight and extends our sweet pro.' cession in Hrp proportion. With jinn addition tho sugar line reaches 11 .-) ' oiilcs nearly onehalf the circumference of tho earth. , Is it worth while to light for tho domestic do-mestic production of that sugar, or shall wo continuo to import it every year? ' That issue is involved in the' elTort the sugnr trust is making to crush tht beet sugar industry. California atom. Is capable of producing every pound of sugar in that 11,200 mile procession We may in timo produce a largo putt ol it, at least if tho sugar truBt fails in ile purpose. If tho trust wins, howevei, good by to our sugar producing pns'pecla and to cheaper BUgur to American consumers. con-sumers. L. A. Herald. MOKE SUGAR FACTORIES IK COLO. Messrs. John Brown and Charles II Barnes returnod home from Loveland Colo, on- Saturday night where, the v havo been employed by tho Great Western Construction Company, during tho summer ns field Bupts. Both the gentlemen stnto tho company has treit ed them well during their stay witli it Tlioy nro quito taken up with the country. coun-try. Mr. Brown says the sugar J ud nutty nut-ty is booming nil around Loveland. Tho people and company nro mitre than delighted with tho factory and its sue ' cess. On tho fourtcontli of this month an excursion was given from Deilvai over tho Colo. Southern to Loveland, and thousands of people went to see the sugar factory nnd its wonders. Tho present season about n,000 ncift of beets wrru hnrvealed from width 70,000 tons of beets have been dellveied at the factory. Mr. Brown eaya the peoplo nro working hard to get acreage enough to build factories at fort Collins, Col-lins, which is located fourteen milcN unrihof Loveland and at, Longuuuii thirty miles south of Loveland nnd at Hatou, About six milts north-weat.ol Greeley. Th above is nn indication how the peoplo feel regarding the sugar industry in those sections, Mr. Brown brought liome a sample of sugar made at the Loveland factory, which we have nt tills ofllce which can be soeri by any- nna inlin t.'ialiafl t r Mill! NOTES. Clilet Jusllco JnmesA. Miner of the Supremo court of Utah in an Interview with President Roosevelt in regard to the beet sugnr industry quotes the president pre-sident ns saying, ''I stand fully, with you in favor of the protection of the beet sugar Industry of Utah and I think nothing will be done to impair that industry." W. A. Havemejer, representative of the Aincrban Sugar Refining company says that Congress will move the duty op raw sugnr within n year and the product pro-duct will sell at thre cents n pouud, f m i -! - |