The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-09-25

the Swedish Government and the |
Swedish Parliament, together with DIR. /
Oscar Dickson, a merchant of Gothen-
burg, and the wealthy Siberian capital |
ist Sibiriakoff, in an Arctic expedition |
proceeding north of Asia and returning |
through the Indian Ocean and the |
Suez Canal. rs..--. ts;.. ~
Manufacture Of Glucose From, Corn.
The extent to which the manufacture |
of glucose sirup from corn has reached |
would astonish the country if fully
known. We are not prepared to give
figures indicating the totality to which
this business has already reached. In |
fact, the business is at present mainly |
carried on under kind of secrecy, the |
profit being immense. and the article |
produced being used, but not avowedly. |
One establishment in New York, which |
for years manufactured starch from |
corn, pursued experiments for a long
time under German chemists, until at |
last the glucose in sirup form and free |
from poisonous substances was pro-
duced. Since then this New York es-
tablishment has been engaged in a
constantly increasing production and
trade. The figures we report may not
be exact in all particulars, but are ac-
curate enough to give a general idea of
the magnitude of the business, the
profit of the manufacture, and the ex-
tent to which cane sugar is being dis
placed by the new commodity in sew
eral uses. 100 ''.i-
If we are not mistaken, the original
manufacturer of the glucose, now an
article of commerce, as a substitute for
sugar, was able to produce, say three
gallons of pure sirup from each bushel
of corn. This sirup is of good color,
and good saccharine power, and its
liquid consistency rendered it desirable
for mixing with other sirups. As COM
pared with imported sirups, or with
sirups made wholly from sugar, its cost
was insignificant, thus enabling the pro-
ducer to sell it at from fifty to seventy
five per cent. profit, and at the same
time furnish substitute for direct
sugar productions at one-h half or less
than their cost. This glucose is sold
to the manufacturers for the following
purposes:
l.. 1t is sold, as was proven before
the Congressional Investigating Com:
mittees, in immense quantities to sugar
refiners.
2. 1t is sold to all manufacturers of
so-called sirups represented as made
from pure sugar.
8. 1t is sold in immense quantities to
manufacturers of candy and all other
forms of confectionery; instead of buy
ing sugar largely made from glucose,
they now buy the glucose itself and
make their wares direct from it.
4 1t is sold extensively to be mixed
with California honey, it assimilating
in color and in other respects with that
article. 1t is mixed in the proportion
of at least one gallon of glucose to one
of honey, and the combined product is
now not only sold to consumers as hon
ey, but is also exported to Europe,
where, on account of its cheapness as
we'll as flavor and other qualities, it is
finding an increasing market. %
5. 1t is used in the East in the manu-
facture of sweet wines and in all liquors
requiring sirups. g.fs la.-a. o..
In naming these purposes to which
glucose is applied we do not mean to
say that it is confined to such uses; of
course it enters into all other produc-
tions of which sugar is a constituent.
The extent to which corn is used for
the manufacture of glucose, which man.
ufacture is only in its infancy, may be
sumption of corn for this purpose dur
ing 1873, by the one establishment to
which we have referred, was 5000. 600
of bushels. For time the trade was
confined to a few hands, but the patent
process has been sold 10 others. and at
least one large establishment is in op-
Grafton at Buffalo, another in st. Louis,
and a third in Chicago-the latter hav-
ing been put in operation quite recently.
There is another at one of the river
towns in Iowa, and, possibly, there may
be one or two outside of New York City,
in the Eastern States.
This industry presents the rather
strange phenomenon of manufacturing
annually the equivalent of. many mill
ions of pounds of sugar, involving the
employment of large capital, with ma
chinery, consuming millions of bushels
of corn, and yet the whole business is
carried on with as much secrecy as at
tends the illicit distillation of spirits.
No purchaser is willing to avow that he
purchases the article; both seller and
purchaser avoid publicity. The pur-
chaser of glucose sells it to his custom
ers under different names at ten times
its original cost, and the consumers are
paying seven hundred per cent. profit
on all commodities of which sugar or
sugar sirup is supposed to be the es-
sential Ingredient --.t
1t is due to truth to say that it is
claimed that the glucose or corn sub
stitute for sugar is free from any guaE-
ty which is in the slightest degree inju-
rious to health; that it is as pure as
starch made from corn; and that the
sole purpose of keeping its manufacr-
ure secret is to enable those having the
mystery and monopoly of its manufact-
ure, as well as others who are using
this cheap substitute and selling it as
cane sugar, to reap the harvest of inn
mense profits. If pure, wholesome SUI
gar, or a pure, wholesome equivalent
for sugar, can be produced from corn,
then the world is entitled to all the
benefits of the discovery. If gar from
corn is possible, let its manufacture be-
come general, and let the country have
its benefit, and not have the profit
wholly taken by the monopolists, who
are practicing an enormous fraud on
the public. Chicago Tribune.
THERE is in Sandersville, Ga, a blind
negro man who is professional well
digger. He not only digs and cleans
out wells, but can rive boards and
shingles, and nail them on q house in
as straight q line as though he had per-
feet sight. ---.
THE Barcelona papers state that in
the Ampurdan district landowners are
daily receiving letters from brigands
threatening them with assassination or