Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1879-09-24

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. II, 10.
GEN. J. II. SHIELDS: My Dear
SRI have an appointment with
Prof. Eugene w. Hilgard to-
morrow morning, to canvass with
him the possibility of introducing
the sugar industry in Southern CAL
ifornia. II n
You will permit me to confine
myself to the practical or business
part Of the question how to de-
velop best and quickest the many
and great advantages which your
locality offers as well to the new
conner as to tine old settler, and make
some suggestions in the sugar line.
In order to introduce the sugar IN
dustry two ways may be followed.
A beet sugar factor, pure and
"simple," involving an expendi-
ture of $1,000 is out of the ques.
ton, ana as 1 have not the slight
est doubt left in my mind that
sugar cane can be produced more
successfully in Southern California
than In Louisiana, the question to
be answered would he: Can an as
ISOLATION be organized in Los An
geles with from $4,000 to $l2. 600
for the procurement of cane for seed
from the sandwich Islands, and its
distribution amongst the farmers?
y
The fuel question, which is solved
by the sugar cane, IL not to be dis
regarded; and as this would not
exclude the beet sugar question to
be developed at the same time, it
would allow the sugar industry to
begin its life on an independent
footing, and while it would develop
itself on the sound basis of prac-
teal experience, it yet would be re-
munerative from the start, and not
involve the unpleasant necessity OF
waiting for years for cash returns OF
profit.
The melon-sugar question Is so
far solved that the result obtained
here corresponds with that
obtained in Germany. Melons
will make fine syrups, but
no crystaliZed sugar; it will
therefore never become an Industry
of national or even local import
ance. though 1t would be we'll to re-
sort ttit during the time that the
cane and beet sugar industry is be
ing developed in Southern Califor.
mia.
The second way to introduce the
sugar industry In Southern Califor
MIA, though somewhat slower, YET
| fully as sure and remunerative
would be to form manufacturing
company of Southern California
| with u capital not necessarily larger
than before named, the object o
this company to be to manufacture
anything for which the agricultu
raj resources OF Southern California
offered advantages, to bring the
raw products into n more compact
form of higher cash value and into
a more marketable shape.
In order to make the first star
under the second plan, collect al
the sugar cane from the Chinese
and others, for planting this year
begin making melon syrup as soou
as possible, and have sugar beets
i(genutne) planted, and when ma
tured, dried, exactly as raisins are
dried now, in the open air. The
machinery to make syrup and su
gar to be so arranged that it can a.
the same time be probably usee
for coudensing or concentrating
milk and canning the same, to pro
duce potato starch, wheat starch
canned and dried fruit, preserving
and packing meat, and in chang
ing agricultural produce generally
to more valuable form. In doinl
this, step from one to the other, al
ways begin on a moderate scale
and as soon as sufficiently devel.
Ioped, 60 ahead largely with 1t, anG