Daily Los Angeles herald., 1879-11-12

San Francisco find out that Mr.,
Gennert had contracted for many
thousands of acres to be cultivated
In sugar beets with view of work
ing them into sugar in San Fran.
cisco which would not only serious.
ly interfere with their monopoly,
but If successful break up the sugar.
ring which yields such enormous
profits to the few in It, and releases
the jobbers and wholesale grocers
from the tyranny under which
they have been suffering for years,
than this ring of which Claus
Spreckles is the moving spirit, set
to work to abuse Mr.. Gennert per-
sonally in order to isolate him and
make it impossible for him to form
his combinations between farmers,
capitalists and the sugar refinery.
which has been standing Idle in
San Francisco.
Mr.. Gennert has in consequence
of this been compelled to change
his base of operations; but, in do
ing so, has assumed a position
which is stronger than the one be-
fore occupied, and which will go
farther to make the beet sugar in
dustry at home in Southern Cali
fornia than anything he could
have done. We understand that
Mr.. Gennert proposes now to es-
tablish beet sugar factory on a
very moderate scale here In Los
Angeles county, without any COM
pany or partnership of any kind,
have the farmers raise the beetF,
which he will work up on shares
for the farmer and thus inaugurate
home industry free from stock
jobbing and ring rule. The thous.
ands of acres required under the
first plan will be reduced to hun
dreds now; but should this plan
work well, as we have no douJt 1t
will, it may be duplicated next
year indefinitely, because every To-
cality could afford to have factory
which requires the Investment of
only four or five thousand dollars.
The plan named, with very simple
machinery, can only be success
fully followed in the working of
dried beets. 1t was adopted by him
last year in Portland, Maine. The
sugar making of dried beets worked
very well, but the fuel and ma
chinery for drying the beets more
than counterbalanced the simplic-
ity of the sugar machinery.
AS Mr.. Gennert has stock of
genuine sugar beet seed in New
York on hand, farmers who will
join in the new plan can be sup
piled by him in four weeks, which
is sufficient time for the earliest
land. Farmers who are too far
distant or not inclined to have
their crops worked on shares can
secure sufficient seed TO try and
satisfy themselves what they can
do in the sugar beet line for anoth-
er year, when this first establish
ment will be followed by many
others here in our county.
The opinion of farmers as to the
sugar beet crop is best illustrated
by letters of which the following
are specimens:
GLENs FALLS ms. CoMPNY, I
AGENCY AT
GUADALUPE, Cal, Oct. 26, 1879. }
Ernest Tn. Gennert:
DEAR SIR: l see by the papers
that you are making contracts
with farmers for dried beets next
year. 1 would like to get all infor-
nation on the subject with the
same view, if you have not
already contracted for all you want.
| have been trying for three years
to induce capitalists to build works
here. L have sent beets to Sequel
once and had them polarized, and
Prof. Otto pronounced them good.
Another year sent some to Prof.
Hilgard and he pronounced them
good. Some had over sixteen per
cent. of saccharine matter. We
have variety of soils. Our valley
is five by twenty miles in extent.
How much do the beets shrink by
drying, and is it difficult to ascer-
tain what soil is suitable? I think
we have every facility for factory
right here. Truly yours,
JAMES MORSE.