The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-26
NEW INDUSTRIES IN THE WEST.
remarkable Progress in the Beet
Sugar Industry.
From The Ne7c York Sun.


From the Near York Sun.
Melville D. Landon (Eli Perkins,, having
just returned from Dakota. Nebraska and
Minnesota, was asked if there were any
new industries being established in the
west on account of the new tariff.
YES" he said, there are three great
western industries being established which
will keep $50, 00O, 900 in this country every
year"
What are theyW
First, the Grand Island, Nebraska, beet
sugar industry is a wonderful success. They
are now turning out there 800 barrels Of
pure white beet sugar a day. The plant
COST SoUO,OOO, and was purchased in Ger
many. The farmers all made money last
summer raising beets in the Platte valley,
and next year millions OF acres in that val
ley and II the Jim River valley, Dakota,
VIII go into the beet sugar industry. They
are putting up other beet sugar factories in
Lincoln aud Norfolk, Nebraska, Sioux City,
Iowa, and IN Aberdeen, Dakota. l believe
the Platte and Jim River valleys will sup
ply all the white sugar the country will
want IN less than five years. Germany is
making her own sugar, and the percentage
of sugar in her beets is per cent less than
| in the Nebraska beets."
And the next industryw
II Is the new impetus given by the tariff
10 max raising and manufacturing We
have always thrown away our fax fiber
Now Minnesota capital and Glasgow skill
are building Q large fax factory in Mime
apolls Two small fax factories for maxi
| ing towels, sheets and table CLOTHS are being
operated in Northern Iowa. Thousands Of
farmers are putting wheat lands into fax,
aud linen making is becoming an American
industry. We have been spending $50, OO0,-
OOO annually in Ireland, France and Ger
many Tor linen and throwing our fax
away after making linseed oil out of the
seed. Now the tariff on oil and linen makes
the industry profitable here"
Nv hat about wool in the northwest"
The whole country from Bismarck to
Mendon is gong into it. Millions of acres
OF wheat land will go into sheep this year.
On the train coming down from Fargo were
lO0 horses which never did anything but
work in the wheat fields. They were going
to Ohio to be changed for sheep-South
| Downs-good for food and wool"
Nv hat will be the result of all thism
| why, we will not have this surplus of
| 70,O00,O0O bushels of wheat to sell in Eng
land at dollar bushel. Within two years
We will eat up all our surplus wheat, and
then it will go to a dollar bushel in Da-
kota, price that it is worth for food, and
| ono AuerlCdu ldTIQer Will Dc on COp again.
Good times are coming for the farmer. 1
can see it. Land is stiffening up all over
the west Farms are going out of the
market. The tariff of 90 cents a bushel
will keep back 100000 bushels of Mani
toba wheat made on cheap dolar-an-acre
land aud make it go out oy Quebec"
But there is more public land!'
mo. not wheat land nor corn land It Is
about all taken. What is left is beyond the
rain belt. The farmer has been for fifteen
years the under dog in the fight. Now he
Is coming to the front. He begins to feel
rich already. The tide has turned. Farm.
ing is paying better and better every day.
1t has been this 20, 100000 surplus bushels OF
wheat, which had to go to sixty cents in
Dakota before it could displace the cheap
India wheat in England, which has kept
| the farmer poor.
| Besides this" continued Mr. Landon
thousands OF new industries are springing
| up to employ more labor-plush factories al
Catasaugua and in other towns in Pennsyl-
vania. plate glass factories in Butler and all
| over the natural gas regions, silk factories
| at Honesdale and Scranton, and more pot
| teries in Trenton and East Liverpool. These
laborers will be we'll paid and they will ca
more -four and meat than idle men. l say
| give this abused and misunderstood tariff
| trialr