Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-02-07
The Chine sugar Factory.

EDITORS dERALD-ln your weekly |
edition of today / find this:
since the removal of the Grand leland, |
Nebraska, beet sugar factory to the
Chino ranch has become an assured fact,
there has been great revival of interest |
in the industry in that vicinity.
As true newspaper men want assured |
facts'' if they can get them, 1 assume
you will be glad to know and publish the
truth in this business.
The Oxnard Bros, of Brooklyn, New
York. are building a beet sugar factory
at Grand Island, Nebraska. They have
agreed to have it ready for operation by
September l of this year. MIR. Henry
II. Oxnard, of the above-named firm,
stated these facts in an argument before
the ways and means committee of Con-
gress about the 7sh Of January. He nor
his firm has any thought of removing
the factory to any other place. Mr..
Oxnard has been in frequent communi.
cation with Richard Grd, both in person
and by letter, for about a year. His
operations in Nebraska have been we'll
understood. They in nowise conflict
with the contemplated factory in Chino.
The Oxnard Bros constitute firm COM
bining ample means and complete
ability to build factories and make sugar
from beets. Henry has spent years in
Europe studying the industry in all its
branches. The firm control the Fulton
sugar refinery OF Brooklyn, N. Y. 1t ad-
yances money to Louisiana planters. 1t
is interested in the American refinery in
San Francisco. It is, in fact, in the
business for all there is safely in it..
Nothing is done hastily. At least one
season of beet-growing and experiment
ing by analysis and otherwise precedes
the establishing of a factory. Last sum-
mer this preliminary work was done at
Grand Island with results that deter
mined the firm to build factory there,
as stated above.
But this Grand Island factory in no
wise lnterferes with the building of
Others by the firm. At the same time ex.
periments were made there they were
made at Chino. Mr.. Henry T.
Oxnard came to Chino one year
ago; spent ten days here; went
among the farmers, and with
his own hauds assisted in preparing
small patches of land and planting them
to sugar.beets; he wrote out, and Mr..
sGird had printed, instructions about how
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twice during the summer, inspected the
plants, and after they were old enough
made analyses. Other members Of the
firm came at other times; soils from diff
ferent parts of the ranch were analysed /;
the quality and quantity of available
water examined; French expert sugar
beet farmer (Auguste Desprez) WAS
brought from France on TO this property,
and he, with Mr. Henry Z. Oxnard, ex-
amined the soil for miles all about Chino.
They spaded up the land with their own
hands and personally examined scores
and scores of places, and went away
fully convinced that there was no better
land for sugar beets than that of the
Chino ranch. The Chino-grown beets
had been analysed by the chemists of
Messrs. Spreckels, of the Alvarado Com
pany in Alameda county, and by Thomas
Price and others, of San Francisco. Mr..
Gird in his own laboratory made hun
dreds of analyses of the beets
at all stages of growth and for
aour months after maturity. Mr.. Oxnard
carefully inspected Mr. Gird's methods
and was Satisfied the results were cor
rect. He analysed the beets here and
elsewhere. Before Mr.. 0xnard left Cali
fornia for Grand Island in November,
and after all the described work and ex-
periments were done, he came to an
understanding with Mr.. Gird about a