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Show H Our Fame i Spreading., '.' ' J B ' i. . ' H ,H j H Tho whole: of U;0 Triiiis-MUslssippJj H country was much into rented in the m recent Jubilee lield in Suit Lake nnd it B . lias boon spoken of by nil leading papers M of the west. In speaking nhont tii.H B grand celebration tliu Nebraska State H Journal of Augdst 1(1 says : B "On nn old lime wagon which np- H peared in the parad wore several pieeeH K of queer looking machinery mid thereby m hangs the etory uf the lint attempt to ' m produce beet sugar in America. In 1350 H Phillip dc la Mare, who for the paBt m quarter of a century has been a resident R- xjf Tooele county, met the lute President B Taylor of the Mormon chinch in Puna. m They decided to investigate the beet B sugar industry in iManco as it existed m at that time. The idea of tmnsplnnting m the industry to the quick soil of Utah B was followed up byPrcsidontTaylor and B Mr. I)e la Mare going to England, where B tlie necessary funds were raised, about B $(10,000, topuichaFc, not only machinery B for inanufauturing sugar from beets, but B for woolen and knitting niillH. The H machinery was shipped from Liverpool B in IBoti, and was landed at-St. Louis, H from whence it was shipped by boat to B Ft. Leavenworth on the Missouri rivur. B There were fifty-two wagon londs o B machinery and the cost of freighting it H from Leavenworth to Salt Lake City Hj was ifotll) per ton. The wagons and B machinery reached l'rovo in the tall o H 1852, from which place it was afterwards B brought to Salt Lake City and the plant B set up the following year. Beets were B grown from the first hiigar beet need B brought from France. Molasses was B made, but the apparatus for clarifying H the product was not included in tl o H supply of machinery. Beets were raised H on the alkali lands in the valley, but the B Hiigar made from them was bitter, and H t,hc factory was closed at the end of the H The Lehi sugar factory, in Utah B county, is one of the largest manufuctui- H ing institutions in the state. Between H -1,000,000 add 5,000,000 pounds of hiigar H nro made annually, and $160,000 ; paid B yearly to the fnrmois for beets. The H factory employs -00 men. At tiie H world's fair the grade of sugar produced H received the first prize. The daily B average of beets used is 305 tons, and the H output of sugar 4 12 sacks of ninety-eight H pounds each. |