The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1883-01-18
for the farmer.
GLUCOSE COME TO GRIEF.

For while glucose making promised to be the
best business in the country. The Hamiins, of
Buffalo, made il most profitable there, and show
ed their faith in the business by opening facto-
ries in Peoria and Leavenworth. Besides their
three great factories, thirteen others have been
manufacturing the yillinous compound in the
West having invested hundreds Of thousands of
dollars in buildings and machinery. With few
exceptions the Investments have been most uu-
satisfactory. There seems to have been no de-
mand for much glucose. The business, like
making steel rails at SO ton, seems to have
been oyerdone, and the manufacturers are whin-
ing for relief. Whether the glucose men, like
the steel men, will seek relief in Congress for
their infant industry has not yet been announc-
ed, but that something must be done speedily,
or the enterprising capitalists, who have staked
their all on this hopeful infant, must ''lay down
the baby" and sec great infant industry per-
ish, early, aud full of promise. Ii is touch
ing to behold their grief If now, only an enor
nous tax on sugar could be piled on, for the
benefit of few dozen sugar plantations; then,
with extra high sugar and vigorous crusade Of
SANDER against the new and honest rival, sor
ghum, there may be hope of salvation by con-
sOlidation and running on half capacity. We
find in the Davenport Democrat the following
statement of the present condition of things in
the Western factories:
Davenport works capacity 5000 to ;, 500 bushels
corn per day, shut down two weeks ago, that
the present proposition might he considered;
the consolidation is effected or not.
The Des Moines (Iowa) and SagetOwn tllli-
nois) works have proved failures, sinking all the
capital invested.
Marshalltown Iowa works, after having nsed
up s250, 900 capital, are being enlarged from L.
500 TO 1900 bushels capacity for profitable work
ing! The stockholders have never received a
cent of dividend.
Rockford, ILL.,, capacity I,5OO bushels per day
heavily encumbered and idle.
lam I.rl. day
Idle-failure.
Freeport, ILL.,, capacity 5000 bushels per day.
Idle, with Z, 900 barrels of syrup ON hand. Re
sumption of operations improbable.
Iowa City, Iowa, capacity 800 bushels per
day. Shut down because of dull trade. Profit
less SO far.
st. Louis, No., capacity 1000 bushels per day
idle.
st. Joseph, Mo-, capacity 1000 bushels per
day-working occasionally, as there may he de-
mand.
Danviile, ILL.,, capacity 1000 bushels per day
shut down, because of dull trade.
TippecanOe, Ohio, closed for repairs, tire only
successful works in the West, outs ide of those
owned by the Hamlins, and the Davenport
| works
Peoria, ILL.,, capacity 5000 bushels per day
idle.
One in Peoria and one in Leavenworth, hav-
| ing an aggregate capacity of u, 900 bushels per
day, are in operation, but selling the product at
| 4 very unremuneratiye price.
| The Limerick works, at Buffalo, are refining
wOrks-for the purpose of making sugar out OF
corn-starch for mixing with real sugar for table
use, use 200 to 1000 bushels of corn daily The
great works being built in Chicago, 5000 bush
els daily contemplate the same business.
There are big works near New iork-Owned
by Duryea and Booth & Edgar-having an ag
gregate capacity of II, 900 bushels daily, in OPP
| GRAFTON. Willnot enter consolidation, but make
combination with consolidated Companies.
| The works at Kansas City, Mo-, and Wheel
| ing, West Virginia, were built for refining by
the dry process. They absorbed $780, 200 each
and are dead failures.
Detroit works, capacity 5000 bushels daily
| are idle.