The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-09-05

ready 70 talk sugar In the most hopeful
terms. BE proceeded at once to Phil
adelphia. after landing to look into the
condition of the sugar refining plant
which he has been establishing there,
and which Is in charge Of his son,
Charles III. Spreckels.
The factory viii be ready for Oper-
atlng." said he, lin October. That is
the reason made nv visit to Europe
so short, and did the exhibition first Of
all. 1 wanted TO spend most Of the time
IN Germany, studying the beet industry
there
Have you heard of anything of q
movement of English capitalists to buy
up sugar trust certi6cates2''
No, but people came to me on the
other side and offered TO by my Cali
fOrnia and philadelphia re6neries. /
told them that would not sell and
that they did not have money enough
70 DuY them or me-
Do you think that the trust viii be
able to hold together?''
Il don't see how it can. The fight
mas got 70 come. AS eeon as my Phil
adelphia factory is Is operation / shall
place on the market from that source
alone 300, 900 tons of refined sugar q
year, and then they viii have to close
up some more of their Adjustments.
recourse. they are not going TO give
me all that want, and there will be a
cuttiDgof prices, it may be below cost;
l can't tell al TO that. When you are
engaged in warfare you can't say ex-
actiy where 1t viii end. ] have in
Philadelphia the largest refinery in
the world. intend to run it and to
sell my sugar. don't care what the
consequences may be. There will be
more healthy base of competition as
soon as my factory is started. The
present output of the trust factories is,
perhaps, between zoe, GOO and 500, 600
tons year, My new PHILADELPHIA
factory will produce 1000 tons of refined
sugar in day, and my California fac
tOoy 500 tons. That you see will make
nearly SOC, 600 tons year. Add to this
the output of Harrison s. Fraser's and
Knights refineries in Philadelphia,
] which are not controlled by the trust
and which manufacture 1900 tons a
/ day, and you have product which is
certainly equal to that of the would be
monopoly. do not know what those
two Philadelphia factories will do,
but / know they are Independent of
the trust. The trust must surely go
under if we can only hang together.
1t has too many lame ducks to feed
now.
IF the sugar beet industry can be
established in this country, the exist
ence of a refinery trust will be rem
dered impossible. I have demonstra-
ted that sugrar beet culture can be sue
cessful and profitable, and it can be
| just as much so on the Atlantic slope
| as on the Pacific, in the Mississippi
valley as in California. There is ey-
| erything in certain points which must
be considered before beet farm is les
tablished: ~ The location of the facto
ry must be taken into account; e
there mast be plenty of water; it must
be limestone country and fuel mus
be valuable; ~ the beet grower must
know how to extract the sugar from thu
beet. 1t is not necessary to import la
Dor from Germany for that purpose i
the farmer will but inform himself OF
the subject and make as close study o.
it as possible. I think that good dea
of profit awaits the intelligent farme
who will go into the business. ! an
anxious to get all the crude beet suga
that can be produced here"
"Can we ever compete with German,
in the markets of the world in the sal
Of refined beet sugar?e
I'VE can while the duty remains, bu
not if il is removed, unless, we can EN-
: ploy machinery to so great an exten
as to offset the lower cost of labor il
Germany. The German industry
, entirely dependent upon the bount
allowed it by the government.