Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-10-17

year, 1000 from the United States
government, part of the appropriation
made by congress to pay for expert
ments In sorghum sugar making. The
company will get 5000 of the = cent per
pound bounty offered by the state for
all sorghum sugar made in the state.
So the company will then realize SIS
600 in money, which in great way com
pensates it for the actual outlay of $780,
600 that IT has had to meet.
The government keeps TWO chemists
at Conway Springs, under the direction
of the agricultural department. These
are Professors SchweiDitz and Carr.
They are closely watching every move
ment of the works and the output and
their report will be of great advantage
to other mills that may be established
in this portion of Kansas.
Should Medicine Lodge decide to es
tablish sugar plant, it might. with ad-
vantage, combine one or more industries
with it. The sugar season lasts, at the
best, but 80 days, and so the machinery
would be idle months, unless put to
some other use. A paper mill would be
practicable. 1t could use up the cane
pulp that otherwise would be a total
loss. This pulp makes a good paper
fiber and with the unlimited pure water
we have, there is every reason for be-
lieying that paper mill might be sue
cessfully established here.
Another thing. Salt underlies Medi-
cine Lodge, in unlimited quantities, and
the sugar machinery and power might
be used in developing it. That indus
try might be considered.
Then summing up the subject, it is our
opinion. after careful inquiry and OBJ
servatiOn, that a sugar plant at Medi-
cine Lodge is practicable and desirable.
Ii one is established it must be by q
home company. and it must be en-
couraged by the farmers who would
take stock and raise the cane. The city
should encourage the enterprise by CIV
ing the company the water privileges,
under certain restrictions.
If anything is done, it should be done
before January 1st. All orders for
machinery and building material should
be placed by that time. Grounds
should be secured; competent superin-
tendent and architect should be en-
ployed, and the sooner the better; fol-
there will be demand for experienced
sugar mill men from now on. Every
town of any Importance III the state is
talking about plant. The gentleman
who built the works at Conway Springs
is Z. w: Deming, and he also did much
of the work at Fort Scott. He should
be conferred with. Mr.. G.. b. Arm
strong, the treasurer Of the Conway
Springs company, is another gentleman
our people can approach. He is very
willing to give information. Someone
should correspond with the commission
er of agriculture, Hon. Norman j. Cole
man, for he controls the experimental
money appropriated by congress.
But first of all, some one must take
the initiative step towards organizins
the company. The informal meeting o.
last Saturday, after listening to the re
port of the agent sent to Conway
Springs, adjourned to meet in the court
house at Medicine Lodge on Saturday
November 10. Every person interested
is requested to be present without fur
Their ceremony. And every man whC
owns land within seven miles of Till
city is directly interested in the pro
posed mill at Medicine Lodge. Every
citizen of the county is interested il
the general subject of sorghum sugar
The county is peculiarly adapted to sor
ghum raising, and If mill is success
here, there is no reason why others ma,
not be established.