Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-26 | Page 4 | Development of Sugar Industry Section

development OF SUGAR INDUSTRY michigan and colorado promise to alio greated grea tet of beet sugar the tate manufacturing the Bac product although california now lead and utah ha made u wit showing there are now building gift campaign of six beet fac in the abate of michigan 0 n daily capacity of COO tons planta are n coure of construction in colorado lo 10 of COO ton and one tona capacity utah will next year have another factory added to its resources making four no state is better adapted to the cultivation of sugar beets than utah but is nil insufficient population in the intermountain country to allow of an expansion of the industry in the proportions now going on in michigan or colorado although half a dozen utah factories could be made to pay good profits on the investment even after allowing for considerable expense in transporting the refined product to distant markets the bear river valley gives promise of a rich development because of the sugar plant to be established north of corinne when that factory is built and in running order tho 1 development of the industry in utah must depend on the ability of our ugar men to extract the saccharine contents of the beets at a margin of profit large enough to permit of freight charges to as far east as river points and there cope with tho opposition of the sugar trust with its cane sugar