The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-30
SUGAR MAKING.
To the Farmers of Utah.:

1 10 LUE II vi UtcI y " yuan.
| I am aware that for some time
past a considerable interest has been
felt. especially amongst the farmers,
In the developments msde in the
manufacture Of sugar in this Terri.
tory, and therefore I have asked the
privilege OF the publication Of card
on that subject.
There are so many perso: who
were and are now ready to predict
that beth soil and climate in this
Territory ere inimical to the pro-
duc.ion Of sugar in paying quanti-
ties, that the success which has
attended experiments in that line is
received with mu b doubt
ing consequently more than
an ordinary degree of dem
onstration and certainty is required
before credence will be yelled and
the assistance necos airy for the firm
establishment Of the INDUSTRY will
be given. | Go not write this to
enter into dissertation on the sub
Ject, hut to express my entire conf
dence In TIE practicability Of the
enterprise My experiments have
/ taught me hat the elements here
are sufficiently favorable to render
| this industry not only PERFECTLY safe
and reliable but one of the most
profitable in the Territory of Utah
1t would be perhaps a sufficient ben
eft to the Territory to furnish en-
ploy ment for thousand men. and
TO save for circulation mil
lion dollars year which now is
paid out for sugar, though there
were 40 profit besides these in the
manufacture. But not only can
these desirable objects be ac>
complished, but in addition thereto
from % to 25 per cent. of this large
amount can be real zed as clear
profit when the enterprise is firmly
established.
am told that some of you are
paying bushel of wheat for four
pounds of sugar. Youfaise probably
twenty bushels of wheat on an acre;
thus an average acre of wheatl after
you have paid all expenses OF
harvesting, threshing and market
ing represents eighty pounds of
sugar; now l have actually with
quite crude and imperfect machin-
cry produced from one acre of cane
700 pounds of sugar and 112 gallons
OF molasses, which molasses if
treated with sufficient and suitable
machinery could have been made
to produce another 700 pounds of
sugar, thus making 1,4oe pounds of
sugar to the acre of cane. Every
ton OF good, stripped and topped
ripe, cane can be made to pr duce
leo pound OF good sugar and five or
six gallons Of very fair molasses
besides.
I have made my EXPERIMENTS very
thorough and extensive, so that the
results can be depended upon im>
plicitly, and although to the casual
and uninterested reader there may
not appear much in my report of
them, you farmers who get only one
crop In a whole year, and take
whole ear to get one crop, can real
ize how much depends upon cor
rect understanding of the matters
setiforth therein, for it is certainly
as important to know what you can.
not do "a to know what you can do.
The points set forth in that paper
have cost much time and money to
ascertain, and there is now no rea-
son why any body. with that report
before them, should lose either time
or money on those items, and think
it contains all the points necessary
to be understood in raising the crop.
Any person looking at the almost
total absence Of economy IN the
present rash policy of the people of
the Territory can easily foresee that
no true and permanent prosperity
lies ut our door. We are employing
thousands of men to manufa ture
for Us abroad, while we have large
numbers of idle or only partly em-
ployed men at home; our imports
are vastly in excess of our exports,
and our home manufactures are but
q trife compared with our consump-
ton.
I am, through lack OF means, tenn
porarily unable to continue my eff
forts in establishing the industry,
but I shall be pleased to answer any
Questions and give any information
or assistance In my power to any
persons Or parties who may desire
such, and so great is my confidence
in the industry, that rs soon as re-
I shaa prosecute my labors
until I see at least one factory
turning out ten thousand bags Of
sugar per annum. 1 KNOB it is not
only practicable, but also profitable,
when sufficient money is invested
10 procure the necessary plant.
You shall hear from me again.
ARTHUR STAYNER.
Pennington, March "a, 1884.