Los Angeles herald., 1891-09-04
THE NEW INDUSTRY.

AS an indication of the deep interest
taken by our people in the Inauguration
of the sugar beet industry in this Sec
ton, the excursion yesterday afternoon
to the new sugar refinery at Chino was
significant. No less than four hundred
persons were on the train, and these
consisted of our representative business
people and capitalists. The intelligence.
energy and wealth of Los Angeles were
there in force.
On arriving at the refinery the whole
process of making the fine white sugar
produced, was inspected, from the time
the beets leave the bins until the juice,
crushed out of them, has passed froms
the watts into the centrifugals, then into
the refinery, and out to the sacks into
which it fell in the shape of finely
granulated sugar, as white as snow and
as sweet as the honey Of Hybla.
That the experiment was success
was presented to all in the form of an
ocular demonstration. We shall not
attempt here to go into the detail OF fig
ures necessary to show the cost of pro-
ducing the sugar from the time the seed
is put into the ground. until the article
Of commerce is sacked and sold; but we
will say generally that as far as can at
present be ascertained, the industry
will pay we'll. 1t will pay the land
owner and the farmer, who supply the
mill with beets, and it will pay the
company that. buys the beets and pro-
duces from them the refined sugar Of
commerce.
Now we shall only reflect the general
idea that prevailed amongst the observ-
ing men who visited Chino yesterday by
saying that if the cultivation of the
sugar beet is success there, it can be
made success in thousands of places
in this and the adjacent counties. The
industry can be established successfully
in San Fernando valley; in any portion
of San Gabriel valley; anywhere in San
Jose valley; in any portion of the table
lands that reach from the New river to
the Santa Ana; in the lands that lie
between this city and the ocean; in the
Laguna ranch lands and the Downey
belt; in Artesia and the lands below it
to the sea-indeed the difficulty is to
say where and in what lands it may not
be made a success. But, without
further particularizing, we may
say that wherever in Southern Cali
fornia the soil consists of a sandy
loan, or a soil that will pro-
duce a good crop of Indian corn, wheat
or potatoes, there good crop of sugar
beets can be produced. Mr.. III. w.
Wiley, of the United States Department
of Agriculture, says that "the soil upon
which sugar beets are grown should be
reasonably level, and this being the
case, it should be we'll drained"
What vast field of profitable indus
try this inaugural experiment opens to
| Southern California. In this state and
in this part of the state we shall see the
| highest development of this new inter
est, because not only we have vast and
almost unlimited acres of the best land
for the production of the root, but,
| further, because we have the climate
and the seasons that will produce the
highest saccharine results in the beet.
The same authority we quoted above
designates certain isothermal line as
that which contributes to the highest
development Of the sugar beet, and says
that Southern California is not oaly
within that line, but has great advan-
tages in the continuation Of its summer
temperature through the winter months.
He further says that the season for