The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-09
SALT LAKE AND SUGAR.
The Result of Mr.. Morris
Tour of Inspection.
A TALK WITH MIR. SrAYNER
sumption Can Easily be Supplied
Fac 8 and FIgures-Etc.

Hearing that Mr.. Elias Morris had
returned from his trip to Fort Scott
Kansas, whittier he had gone to look
into the sugar manufactures being
conducted there, reporter for THE
HERALD visited Mr.. Arthur Stayner
and requested some information con
cerning the object and results of Mr..
Morris trip and the situation and
prospects 0: the industry in this Terri
tory.
Mr.. Stayn er stated that Mr.. Morris
trip was brought about as the result of
conversation with some of our leading
men, to whom he had represented the
probable proftabIeness of the industry
here by utilizing the principle of diffu-
sion in extracting the saccharine prop
critics of sorghum elaborate and success
full experim ents in which had lately been
undertaken by the Agricultural De.
partment Of the government, and which,
together with the use of process pat
ented by Professor Swenson, was now
eminently and practically successful in
THE PARKINSON SUGAR WORKS
in Kansas. "These representations, "
he said look so hattering, the gentle
man felt that perhaps L had become
unwarrantably enthused, whereupon
l proposed that they should select any
man of good judgment to goodwin there
and see what I had seen and l would
guarantee tn he would corroborate
my statements II every particular. Mr..
Amos Howe was first selected, but he
being unable to go on account of sick
ness at the time 1t was necessary for
him to depart, [ had spoken
to Mr.. Morris and he expressed his
willingness to go. Mr.. Morris spent
three days at Fort Scott and saw the
whole process; he saw the cane going
in and the sugar coming out: he OBJ
tanned information of the capacity of
this factory; the cost OF the cane, of the
manufacture, and the results, and saw
for himself the barrels of sugar piled up
and the immense quantity of syrup, and
was shown by the superintendent the
profits that will be realized this year.
| the processes now in use at Fort Scott
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THE MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR
from sorghum and place the solution
of the problem beyond question"
upon being Intercepted with regard
to the prospects of the industry being
established in Utah, Mr.. Stayner sad
that tits his intention to get company
formed as soon as possible in time to
get ready to make sugar next year.
The amount of money that Utah pays
annually for sugar is million dollars,
and he is confident that this amount
of money can be earned here at good
profit. Cane can be raised here from
six 10 twelve tons per acre, at cost Of
So TO So so per ton OF cell cane and
worked up at 81 per ton and made to
produce sufficient sugar and syrup to
realize very handsome profit, and he
has no hesitancy in predicting that a
capital of $150,000 would in six years
produce sufficient sugar annually to
supply our own market. He has given
some attention to the beet and has hope
that the difficulties CT the beet sugar
manufacture peculiarly belonging to
our alkaline country.
CAN BE OVERCOME,
and when this is done (for
the same machinery will work
both cane and beets), the pro-
fitableness of the manufacture will
be very materially enhanced; cane can
be worked the first thirty or forty days
of the season, and beets for sixty or
ninety days afterwards.
1t is not as safe to buy the cane as to
raise it, but beets can be raised on farms
within reasonable hauling distance, or
near railroads. He is waiting anxiously
to hear from Mr.. Spreckles with regard
to his success in jacksonville, Califor-
mia, where he has established factory
for making beet sugar. If successful in
California, there is only the one diff
Guilty to overcome here, and that is the
alkali. Mr.. Stayner intends making
experiments in beet sugar next year, so
as, if practicable, to utilize that plant
just as early as possible.
The bacon problem is also involved
with the sugar. for the seed of the cane
being as good as corn in fattening
powers, it will furnish at least some of
our bacon for which we pay annually
nearly q half million dollars. Thus
proCuots amounting to 81, 800 900 year
are involved i'm this business, and the
capability of supplying them at con-
siderable profit is
WITHIN OUR REACH.
Mr.. Stsyner did not wish to say
where the factory would be located, as
this might possibly depend upon bonus
offered by neighborhoods wishing to
bring the business near to them; in the
absence of inducements of that kind,
there are two or three suitable locations
from which to select.