Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-04-22
GRAPE SUGAR.
A Large Glucose Mandatory to be Erect
ed In Kansas City.


ed In Kansas City.
From the X, c. Journal.
The project Of establishing branch Of
the Buffalo Grape Sugar manufacturing
company at this place has been mentioned
in the journal heretofore. This import
ant enterprise is now fairly under way,
and an immense factory will be in opera
tion here in few months.
The company have purchased land in
the east bottom, near the Chicago and
Alton elevator, the deeds for which have
been drawn up and delivered, and the
purchase perfected. On this ground they
will commence the erection OF their build
ings about May lst.
The company ranks among the wealth.
est In the East, having a capital of over
$3,000,000. The factory in this city will
consume 5000 bushels of corn per day
and give employment to at least 800
hands. 1t is said that the Buffalo factory
can not supply the increasing demand
with sufficient rapidity, and is behind
with its orders. This being the case, the
company will put on full force Of nearly
double the number of men mentioned
above. They will manufacture corn sugar,
syrup and glucose.
As the different forms of glucose and its
various uses are still veiled in mystery, it
seems, to many persons, it may be well
to give a few facts regarding this great
industry, and its Importance to the corn
producing West,
Glucose is the name applied to the sac
charine elements in the cereals, in fruits,
peas, beans, etc. Unlike can esugar, il
forms no crystals, and derives its name of
grape sugar from the fact that it is ident-
ical with the sugar formed on ralsins an d
other dried fruits. The honor of first con.
vertng starch into sugar belongs to Kir-
choh, Russian chemist, who discovered
the process In 1911. AS the interdict Of Ma
poleon was then in force, preventing the
importation CT sugar from the colonies,
there was a great scarcity of all kinds OF
''sweetning" on the continent Of Europe,
and the discovery created considerable ex.
citement. So great was this excitement
that several factories were at once erected
in France aud Germany. The interest
subsidized, however, when it was found
that the sugar manufactured by their in.
fenor methods was inferior to cane sugar.
Beet sugar was tried, but it was failure,
and scientific minds were again directed
towards the feasibility Of converting
starch into good table syrup. In 1882 the
eminent chemist Payne first began to i'm.
prove upon the earlier rude processes, and
was followed by Musculus and Dubrun-
fault.
The studies and experiments Of these
three men were followed by the most
wonderful success. They produced a
syrup superior both in color and flavor to
that made Of cane. This result infused
new life Into the abandoned industry.
Better machinery was invented, and they
were enabled to manufacture pure white
sugar. In 1888 there were nineteen fac
tories for the manufacture of glucose, in
France and Germany, and in 1878 the
number had increased to eighty four.
The principal forms into which starch is
manipulated, are as follows: Glucose as
sugar, called grape sugar, in the form of a
dense gummy substance, called glucose,
and as table syrup called starch syrup.
The starch is also Transformed into
dextrine, a substitute for gum arabic.
Glucose in its various forms, has mul.
titude of uses. In brewing, in the manu-
facture Of candy, vinegar and wine, and
in preserving fruit, it is becoming indis
pcnsable, and the purposes for which the
substance is useful are ever increasing,
thereby insuring 4 steady demand
The employment Of glucose is not an
adulteration, for it is purchased as any
other necessary ingredient in the prepara-
tion OF food and drink. Lieblg has
analysed it in all its forms, and found it
pure and wholesome,
In this country the first corn,syrup fac
tory was started at Hunters Point, i. l.,
by Mr.. Furbush, of Maine. Buffalo, New
York. was the site OF the second factory,
which was established by Mr.. Ferme
mich. Then the Buffalo States company
added glucose department to their es-
tablishment. The first grape-sugar works
in the West were erected at Davenport,
Iowa.
The low prices of theraw material, and
the prices Of labor and fuel, with the un.
rivaled railroad facilities Of tins city, and
her central position in the great corn
growing region of the West, combine to
make this exactly the right point for a
factory of this kind, and the establishment
Of their branch here is wise move on the
part of the company.
The western people have heretofore been
dependent for all their syrups on the cast
ern manufacturers. In the near future
the CITY of Kansas will not only furnish
the sticky sweets of life for the immense
country tributary to her, but will compete
with the cane syrups made in the eastern
sugar refneries. There are but nine glu'
cose factories in the United States now
four of which are In the West, located al
the following places: Davenport, Iowa
Chicago, East st. Louis and Peoria.