Show BRILLIANT SUCCESS I 1 FROM THE START A new beet sugar factory in operation A correspondent writing from california under date of october to an eastern journal says the acreage of beete grown thia first year for the los Ali motoe sugar factory about ten miles from los angeles was a little less than the campaign is not quite completed oct 14 and the tone actually produced cannot be accurately stated hut probably will aggregate tone the average per cent of sugar we expect will be 16 during the first thirty days of the campaign the a content for factory run exceeded 18 per cent the farmers are paid upon the bonus plan that is a fixed price or a 12 per cent beet with a bonus of per ton for each additional 1 per cent saccharine and the average price paid the farmer for this years crop is about lbs per ton the factory bean operations july 13 it has been a very gratifying campaign to the owners the machinery worked smoothly from the beginning without any serious delays or breakdowns up to date the quality of sugar has been of high grade being readily sold in our local market side by side with cane sagar this ie a very severe test to put sugar to and proves that american machinery ie capable ot anak ine a better quality of dry granulated beet root than has been drope up to the present badere can 0 ia ea it a vere trial ree ulta factory will be enlarged to doub jita present capacity thia capacity theoretically was given by E II 11 adjer co alie bu hd ere as tons per day ahe factory baa actually worked up high aa 81 tons per day which ie another illustration of the caro with which american design and erect boet sugar machinery that 1 the procor bione tione are perfect mr W A chirk a shar hajder in log sugar co mcany has purchased a great tract ot adjacent land upon which in 1897 will have built a duplicate ot los plant the delay until that date is due to the feces eity of the raw land by farst cropping it to cereals the result of this campaign has demonstrated the assily of the statement usually made that the birst three or four campaigns inget necessarily be unprofitable it is gratifying lo 10 stain that such has not been the case with this industry |