The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-03-04
Corn Sugar Manufacture.

made and patented, by which syrup and sugar
can be made from Indian corn. The last mail
brings us a fuller account of the same, which We
copy below from the Buffalo Commercial
Next after bread, there is no staple of food which
enters so largely int the consumption of civilized
life, or which is so radical an element Of good living,
as sugar and any discovery which facilitates It's
production, or tends to cheaper its price 10 the con-
sumer, Is q matter Of great public concern. The
trade and commerce in this staple CO modify have
steadily increased for two hundred years, until il IL
low one Of the controlling interests in the worlds
miner Sugar il made largely from sugar cane,
although considerable quantities ere manufactured
from beets as we'll as from the maple. The annual
product Of maple sugar in the United States IS p 900
TONS.
The total production of cane-sugar in 1852 was
estimated at ,307 600 tons, Of which the United
States produced 100000. The total production OF
beet sugar in the same years was estimated NJ $751;
900 tons. showing how largely this sugar staple en-
tiers into the worlds consumption. And yet this
supply falls far short Of the worlds demand. This
admitted fact has for more than fifty years stimu-
lated the efforts Of chemists and Swans TO discover
some new and more abundant source of supply, and
one which would not be circumscribei by local eli
mate influences, as in the case with sugar-cane. II
is well known that the element or chemical base Of
sugar, known 10 chemists az sacchdrum, exists
largely III a great variety Of substances, and espe-
claiy IN ali such as contain starch, including ali the
cereal grains and many esculent vegetables. The
existence Of sugar ia this form has long been known,
and, though frequent attempts have been made TO
convert IL INTO sugar IN It's common GulJle fOrn- YET
It has hitherto baaied the skill Of the most eminent
chemists. Ii has been reserved, however, 10 the
present era, and 10 our own city Of Buffalo, to be
come the time and place for the solution Of this great
chemical mystery, aud the consequent comforting
upon the world of so great q boon. About Il year
since, a learned, but obscure and poor German
chemist, residing in this city, wrought out the great
problem. and successfully accomplished what the
worlds chemists had vaiuly sought tor half "a cen
tury. His name is Professor Frederick W. Goess-
ling.
We learn that q company has just been formed,
embracing many Of the w~eaithiest men in the city Of
New York, among them several Of the principal
sugar-reiners, with a capital of one million dollars,
which has purchased Professor Goessling's patent,
paying therefor, to him and his associate proprietors,
the sum OF $500 900. They propose 10 enter At once
upon the manufacture OF yrup and sugar from corn
by the process, upon Il large scale. and to introduce
its manufacture throughout the country as fast As
e~xpedient. Experiments have already succeeded in
the production Of NJ least three and Il half gallons Of
syrup from a bushel Of corn, and of a quality which
Is pronounced by the most critical judges to be equal
III every respect 10 TIE best syrups heretofore pro-
duceI from sugar-cane at the New York reiHeries.
An equivalent amount Of granulatei, hrstquality
sugar, II IS claimed. can be produced but we I'M
dersiand that for the present the company will con
hne ats Efforts 10 the production of syrup. Active
preparations are being made. however. TO enter upon
the extensive manufacture of sugar, and it is e-
pected that the company will be prepared TO put the
new staple into the market during the present win
ter.
The annual corn harvests of the West have reached
the fabulous quantity of one thousand millions of
bushels-a result SO large and so far exceeding the
Legitimate, healthy facilities of our internal com-
merce, rs to present a startling problem in regard 10
its disposition. The invention of Prof. Groessling
happily solves this problem, favorable to the best
interest Of mankind. and opens n golden road out Of
the dilemma which was closing around US.
The corn crop of the West, limitless rs il may be
in the future, is now destined 10 become the source
of the worlds supply of sugar or its equivalent
syrup, and the West the repository of untold wealth.
The new era Of sugar manufacture will, TO q great
extent, derange the old currents OF trade. The
West will become a great sugar producing, az we'll
as n great corn-grOwing region. Its great staple
will be compacted both in bulk and value, for the
mauipulations of commerce..
The North will be freed from tribute to the world
for the purchase of one Of the most important article
of consump tion, auI ultimately become a controlling
exporter OF this newly discovered article, by reason
of possessing an almost entire monopoly Of the
worlds production of Indian corn. We are not over
sanguine in this matter, if the new discovery we now
frst publicly announce shall prove all that is claimed
for it, as we have no reason to doubt it will. The
world has long been striving and waiting for just
such an accom- lishment, and its discovery at this
time and in this country, would seem TO be only
another solution of the natural law of development
and supply, which seems ever To attend the worlds
progress and its gradually developing necessities.
The PASSPORT SYsTE M.-The following vas Off
cially promulgated on the 18th of December