The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-02-29
SUGAR.

Without msking any fuss about it
1.-The question has been settled tina
sugar can be made here; and, as al
incentive to additional effort being
made, the Legislature has in a very
prsisewortby manner offered a dou-
ceur, which will be a sweet reward
for those who obtain it., for putting
the first z 900 pounds of merchant.
able sugar upon the market. Tnis is
as 1t should be; the laborer is worthy
OF his reward, whether one or many
have been engaged in the laudsble
effort which has been made. As to
the advantages likely to result from
this maiden effort, II is impossible to
loverestimate thsm if sugar can be
raised in quantities even to supply
the local market, which need not be
tie limit, il We choose to raise sugar.
This arises from the fact that our
soil, climate and-syatem Of labor are
adapted TO the culture of sugar cane.
and this without having to resort to
fertilizers as is the case in raising
most other crops. The mere difficulty
Of having, in some localities, saline
springs flowing into their waters, can
be overcome by using distilled water,
where water ia needed, or, better
still, by using the ordinary supplies
of snow, which can be collected and
stored for use. With tae energetic
producers of the sugar that has
already been put upon the market
this is only trifing difficulty, and
Tith the additional incentive to in
creased Rctien there is no doubt every
difficulty will be overcome.
There's money in It. as vel as a
fair share OF eclat, as there should be
in such an enterprise in which sll
are interested. With the production
of sugar, sugar reiners will come
forth in time. COopers will find eui-
ployment - staVe tIimmers, lumber
Gu tiers, hoop ms kers-a host OF IN
dustrles. Our chemists will find en-
ployment, numberless waste materials
will have to be collected and used TO
supply bone black and other sub
stances used in DELEGATION, purifying
and crystalizing. This means work
for willing hands and food for families,
with pure sugar into the bargain for
domestic use, an item of more i'm
Dortsnce than appears at first sight.
Then it may, and must evenluslly,
help forward IN the important iron
industry; nails, Ietsples, hopping, etc.,
will be wanted, Then bl6cksmiths, !
engineers will be in re-
QUESTION; coal, Of which we have an |
abundance suitable for just such 81 !
industry as sugar making, is Rbund-
snt and cheap.
As to beet sugar, there does not ap- |
bear 20 be any necessity for resortlng |
o beet culture for that purpose; the
zane can be raised mere economically,
lnless, indeed. some improved meth
rs could be discovered by our enter
1rising manufacturers. If it can be
so much the better; there
s . market for everything in toe line
If sugar. We are q sweet-toothed !
people; a sober people deserve and
really require large supply OF car
OopaceoUs food.
And this industry places tine manu-
in g favorably position to
make the most of everythipg-to
gather up the fragments" literally |
and turn them to profitable account.
Thus, stock may be fed with crushed
stalks after the sugar Juice is extTac-
led, which loses comparatively little OF
he elenel IS Of nutrition; the waste
produced by DELEGATION and the
various processes is all of value Tor
The farm yard or fertilizing the soil.
As to sulphur for making di-oxides,
lime for clarifying, clsys and earths.
we have everything that is needed.
Once let such an industry be estab-
iehed permanently, as there is no
Ioutt it will be, judging by what has
.lready been done under circum-
Itances OF difficulty, aud with such
10 incentive held forth for further
development. Then, one more |
avenue to wealth will be opened in
which labor and capital can 90 hand
in hand, as a ready market is opened
foz all that can be produced of home
made sugar.