The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-11-09
CLAUS SPRECKELS TALKS OF
HIS VARIOUS PROJECTS.

The Fine Sugar Produced From CaIlfOr-
MIA Beets-PIans for Next Season.
Claus Spreckels left the city on
Thursday for Philadelphia, where, if
all goes we'll, he expects to open his
new sugar refinery in about two
weeks. He took the Southern route,
and expects to stop at Los Angeles
few days. He will then go to San
Diego and look about. He has never
been in that section of country and
he anticipates much pleasure from
the approaching visit. In CONVEX
sation with S. f. Bulletin reporter
he said:
81 will start my Philadelphia re-
fnery going about the 23d October.
We cannot expect to do very much
at first, because everything is new,
and all the men are not used to the
work. Everything is in shape, SO
that when we do get running we will
be able to turn out fully 100000
pounds of sugar daily. Two of my
boys are there overseeing the work.
Il do not care to talk about the re-
fnery. proposition at New Orleans.
The newspapers East have made me
say a great deal [ never said. They
want thing said and they just put
it so, no matter what you may say.
The other day the Examiner had a
long dispatch giving an interview
with me in the corridor of the Wind
sor Hotel, New York. [ was made
to say that [ was "a trust in myself
and a lot of other things. All the
time I was not in New York at all,
but was here, and never saw any
newspaper man. That's the way
they do. The paper that is not SEN
sational and does not print things
that are not true, and does not black
mail all the rich men, does not sue
coed nova days like the others.
THE BEET SUGAR FACTORY.
cat jacksonville we have been do
ing we'll this season. The only
trouble is that we have not had beets
enough. 1t was poor year for crops
in that region. Very little wheat
was raised. Since we began work
there, over month ago, we have
been turning out, on an average
about forty-one tons of crude sugar
daily, It is fine sugar. The beets
have been averaging from IA to Il
per cent saccharine matter. Of ma
'terial, cut and crushed, about IA pei
cent becomes refined sugar.
. 1.-The farmers, even with a poor
crop, have been making money
The average price we have paid fol
! beets this year is S. % ton. The
crop this year ranges from ten tc
5 fifteen tons an acre. Farmers Rave
sometimes raised as much as twenty
five tons to the acre. At Aptos
have a hundred acres, which L put
in beets last year and this year
This year [ reduced the operating
expenses as the result of experience
and observation, fully 40 per cent
How did I do it? Chiefly by saving
in seed and consequently in labor o.
r planting, etc The Germans plant
> fifteen pounds of seed to the acre
\ L l.
was too much for our soil. In Ger
many, where the soil Is often colo
and wet, more seed is needed. This
, year ] planted two and a hal
pounds to the acre. 1t was poor
season for beets here, but [ made
about seven dollars an acre from my
; land.
"Next season we will have more
beets raised around jacksonville
We have rented 1920 acres of Sail
nas-rlver sediment land, and we viii
plant this. I have been figuring
, out tram-way plan that will enable
us to bring the beets from this lanC
7 I speak of down to the factory. We
ought to raise enough beets in thai
locality to give the factory four OF
, five months run.
"While the factory has been run
7 ming we have been paying into Wat
sonVille between SCI, 900 to $4,000 {
month. Last year, [ understand
over forty houses were put up there
That's pretty good for a little towr
like that. Next year we-the Occi
, dental Sugar Company-will put uE
at least one new beet-sugar plant, but
where, we will not decide for some
time. A hundred different places
say I've promised to locate in their
{ locality, but have not made any
decision in the matter. The loca
ton depends on a great many
things, which we will decide by-and.
by. I have been too busy lately tc
: think much about it. have not
promised any factory in San Der
nardino, nor have [ ever even seen
. that locality.
COST OF THE PLANT.
"My jacksonville factory cost, all
told, about 100000. The plant we
will put up next year will cost fully
as much. Of this sum $4,000 will
go for machinery made in Germany
All the rest Of the machinery will be
made here. I ordered the machin-
cry from Germany last February
It is now all made, and the last ]
heard it was about to be shipped by
sailing vessel for San Francisco.
The work there was delayed by a
strike in the iron mines. The ma
chinery will reach here early next
spring, probably, and we will get the
| now factory nm rpadv for noyt Goa