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Show Sugar House Sermonettes by E. Cecil McGavin This js the ninth i.n a scries of articles on the early day history of Sugar House. The series is presented under the sponsorship of Sugar House Camp, Sons of Utah Pioneers. Within three years after the arrival of the pioneers in the Great Basin several missionaries mission-aries were sent to Europe. Elder John Taylor was assigned assign-ed to France, Orson Pratt to England, Erastus Snow to the Scandinavian countries, and Lorenzo Snow to Italy. They like others had been instructed instruct-ed to be on the alert for any industries that might be profitably prof-itably set up in Deseret. In France John Taylor was impressed with the method of sugar beet culture and manufacture. manu-facture. It occurred to him that this would be a profitable profit-able and desirable industry to establish in the valleys of the mountains, so he took great pains to learn all the secrets about its culture and manufacture. manu-facture. He studied the climate, cli-mate, the soil, and other factors fac-tors where the sugar beets were grown so successfully in France. He was convinced that this product would thrive in the valleys of the far west and be as prolific as it was in France. I By permission of the own-j own-j ei's of the refining plants he was shown through the .mills ! where every step in its manu-J manu-J facture was explained to him. He had a thousand questions about every step in the intricate intri-cate process. The more he studied the process the more he became convinced that Deseret was the place for the sugar beet industry and though the process of refining refin-ing was a skillful and intricate intri-cate one, surely it could be mastered by the preservering Mormons at home. "Eureka!" he must have exclaimed ex-claimed after a thorough research re-search into thsi fascinating industry. in-dustry. Here was a new industry in-dustry that must be taken home and added to the vast line of experiments that were being so widely and successfully success-fully developed in Deseret. The sugar beet, as great a sUiple as bread and potatoes, must be added to the expanding expand-ing list of new industries in Deseret. |