The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-12
A Great Industry Sure to Spring
Up i'm the Two DakO-
tas Soon.
What Has Been Done In Other
States Can as Readily Be
Done Here.
Facts and Figures That Show
How Profitable the Busi-
ness Is.

floors as required by the peculiarly
constructed machinery adapted to
the manufacture OF sugar from sugar
beets. In this building the work OF
placing Ill car loads OF machinery,
imported from Austria, Germany
and France, has just been finished.
The building is constructed of brick,
stone and iron. About so feet dis
tant from the main building is situat-
ed the power and boiler house in which
has been placed battery OF ~ boil
ers with a capacity OF 1000 horse
power. This buildingis also construct.
ed of brick, stone and iron, and is
practically titeproof. Near the boil
er house there is system OF drive
wells with a capacity Of 5000, 900
gallons OF water per day.
Adjoining the main factory building
on the north there is dumping sned
100 feet in width by 500 f,et IN length,
where beets are unloaded from cars
and wagons into V.shaped bins which
convey the roots to ahydraulic canal,
which in turn conveys the beets into
the factory without the necessity OF
being touched by the hand Of man
until they reach the opposite end Of
the factory as morchantable sugar,
ready for barrels and the market. The
beets being carried along this hydrau.
lIc canal, some 500 feet long, by the
flow OF water into q large revolving
drum which thoroughly washes them.
The beets next pass to p brush cleans
er which removes any remaining par
tiCles OF dirt. BY q system OF bucket
elevators the beets are then carried
to the top OF the building, a distance
OF so feet, and dropped into an auto
matte weighing machine which registers
the weight and then drops them into
q slicing machine-a system OF knives
which slices the beets into small
pieces. These sliced beets are then
placed IN q circular battery OF IA
cells, called the diffusion battery.
Water is then passed on the first cell.
The water absorbs small amount OF
the sugar. and this water keeps going in
regular order from No. to No. IA.
taking each time little sugar from
the sliced beets, going on No. l as
pure water ard coming of No IA as
thin syrup. This syrup has to be
purified, as it contains salts, which
prevents It's capitalization. This
publication is accomplished by mix
ing with the syrup some milk Of lime,
q chemical reaction taking place
which frees the syrup OF Injurious
salts, making it perfectly pure. The
machinery used for this process is
called the ''carbonation tanks" We
now have pure thin syrup which
passes to another system OF machin.
cry called the evaporating depart
ment, in which the thin syrup is con-
centrated into thick syrup. This
thick syrup is then carried into a
large pan, called q vacuum pan, and
then is boiled in a vacuum until
crystalIzation takes place. This pro-
cess over, the molasses is dropped
into machines called centrifugal
machines, which are circular with
sieves at the back and which revolves
upon their own axis about 1000
times q minute. BY centrifugal force
the molasses Is seperated from the
sugar, leaving Q pur8 White sugar
ready for Consumption. he sugar
is barreled and the n0las80s coming
from the centrifugal machine 1s placed
in tanks and allowed to stand one
month, when it is again boiled in the
vacuum pan, giving another yield OF
sugar. The storage room for these
enormous tanks is 60x100 feet and
the tanks alone cost $4,000.
The pulp OF the beets, from which
| the sugar has been extracted, makes
excellent food for cattle, and is highly
priced in Europe, where the beet sugar
industry exists on an extensive scale.
The tops of the Deets are cut of and
left to fertilize the field WI ere grown.
The factory site comprises so acres
and contains four miles OF railway
track built by three different railroad
| companies to facilitate the delivery oil
beets at the factory.
The factory will consume about so
tons OF coal and 40 tons OF lime per
day. The lime will be burned at the
factory, a kiln especially designed for
that purpose having been built ad-
joining the manutactory building.
A cooperage shop is also being built
to supply the factory with barrels.
To operate this factory when running
I It's full capacity, 200 hundred men
will be required. One hundred and
eighty men are employed at the
present time, and since Dec. z, last,
when the first shovel OF dirt was
thrown from the excavation Tor the
main building, from $50 tc 225 men
have been constantly employed. The
factory will be in operation Sep. i,
this year, and will run about four
months on this years crop. and after
this year will run from FIVE to six
months each year.
The factory is built and owned by
the Oxford Beet Sugar Company
composed chiefly OF New York capi
talists and men OF large experience In
beet raising and thorough knowledg,
of the manufacture oil beet sugar, and
IL is claimed to be the best factory fol
the manufacture OF beet sugar in tn,
world today, having the most ap
proved machinery OF the great sugal
countries of Europe. The capita
stock Of the company 10 1000, 900
The acreage OF beets planted thil
season comprises $500 acres, al
planted by individual farmers on con
tracts made with the company. Tn,
crop is in excellent condition, prom
isinR an average yield OF at least i!
tons per acre, and an average percent
age OF at least l5 per centum OF sac
charine matter. The average pric
paid this year will be 81 per ton. TIN
company is making arrangements Z,
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