Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-05-06

Western Statistics--1xtstoryo OF The I'm
dustry OF other Countries,

Western statistics--1Etstoryo OF fhe I'm
dustry Of other Countries.
From the Philadelphia Press, April is.
A comparatively new industry is
lust now looming up In the West,
which bids fair, with proper encour-
agement and fostering care, to devel-
op into au important branch of our
home manu- features. Meetings OF
our citizens of various towns in that
section have recently been held to
consider the practicability of estab-
fishing factories for the manufacture
of beet sugar. From statements
made at these meetings of the ex.
perience of other factories now i'm OPP
Grafton, it was shown that q factory
capable of using fifty tons of heets
per day could be run at total cost of
1862, and that the value of its pro.
ducts for the same time would be
$500. An estimate of the cost of
establishing a factory capable OF
working up seventy-five tons fixed
the amount at 5000, the yearly ex-
penses at SIS, 900, and the value of the
products at Sl44, 900. IF these figures
ara i'm any degree reliable. they
demonstrate that beet sugar making
is far more profitable than gold min.
ing. i.
AS in time the manufacture of
sugar from this vegetable may become
popular industry and great source
of national wealth, its history and
present importance in other countries
will not lie uninteresting. Although
the saccharine qualities OF the beet
were discovered as early as lT47, but
Ett1, M N i'm Ns-a niynn tn tfG n.
ufacture until the time of Napoleon
J. AS all colonial products were then
excluded from France, The necessity
of producing sugar from native pro.
ducts became a matter of great inn
psrtance. Beet sugar making re-
ceived new impulse, and grew into
vast proportions. The readmission
of West India sugars nearly broke
up the beet root manufacture, and 1T
was only kept alive by the imposi-
In 1920 and 1922. From that time the
product rapidly increased, until at
present it is one of the most impor.
liant of the industries of France, and
one of which renders her compare
lively independent of the West In
dies. OF the 295, 900 tons of sugar
thS laSb lItIC
months of 1869, Us, 900 tons, or near
~ one half, were manufactured from
the beet root and at home. The ex-
portation of refined sugar for the
same time was II 900 tons.
In Germany, Belgium and Russia,
beet sugar Is manufactured to a con-
siderable extent, and such is the inn
portance attached to il in these coan-
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necessary for its protection. The
numter of manufactures in France
Is set down at Ats, in Belgium at ITO,
the Zollverein at 292, and in Austria
at 200. There are also thousands of
spirit distilleries and alkali works,
collateral branches of this industry.
The English refiners being strong
ly opposed to the beet-root sugar,
there is but one mandatory and one
distiller in that country. The pre-
judice against it, hswever, Is rapidly
giving way, and its introduction may
be looked for at an early dag. Beet
sugar, 10y experiments made in
Frame, has been proved to be fully
equal to that produced from the cane,
which it closely resembles in appear
ahce and taste. The Offence between
the two IL almost indistinguishable
even by experts. From the figures
We have given above, it appears that
this sugar can be eheaply manufac-
tured in this country, aud that, too,
at a great saving over the cost of the
imported article. Nothing is needed
but few bold capitalists TO engage
In the business. AS enterprise nj
ways begets competition, others
a a l. L..
few years we would have d new and
grea' industry, employing thousands
of men and adding millions to our
wealth.