St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-03
BEET SUGAR FACTORY.
An Expert Discusses Some of the
requisites Needed.to IA
Start 1t.
Large Capacity Not Essential at
First-Figures From EX-
perience.

In starting beet sugar factory IL is
by no means advantageous or indlS-
penSable to success that it should be OF
large capacity for the beginning. A
working capacity of 100 tons of beetS
per twenty-four hours is quite sufficient
for the first working season, particular
ly if in preparing plans for the factory
it is done with veiW to facilitating its
enlargement in the second or third sea-
son to any extent wanted. by simple
addition of boilers, centrfuges and
reservoirs without necessitating the re-
reconstruction or remodeling Of the old
buildings.
For the purposes of the factory, that
is for structures, yard room and easy ac-
cess Of teams, ETC., at least two acres OF
ground are requisite: for the storage of
beets under ground an area of eight
acres. The plant should have railroad
facilities, a sufficient quantity of pure
water and easy drainage for refuse mat
ter. The SlOp water carries along with
it the soil attaching to the beetS and the
refuse matter Of the beets, all Of which
should he indicted to big basin, where
those substances settle down, and
whence they may be carried 20 deSIg-
mated place or directly conducted to
meadow, if one is near enough, and its
fertility wonderfully increased.
A beet sugar factory of daily work
ing capacity OF 100 tons of beets would
cost. bought at a German foundry. in
GLIDING machinery, apparatus, utensils,
and each and every part, outside or
buildings, the following sums, to wit:
Kilogr. Dollars
Machinery. etc, in the beet
house ........... :. 1880 1920
Apparatus, ETC., for the ditfu-
Boiling room (vacuum, evap
orator, appliances, etc.)...... 79,7OO 14,113
Filter filter presses Glitter
tower and chalk oven house H,310 2,S5S
Machinery for the sugar house,
ceutrifuges, etc. ......... 1905 3,393
Boiler room. ......... .....'... bl,u@J O,+92
Tin works .,............ ....,.. 39,470 3,U91
Different kinds of utensils,
machinery, etc.. ....:..... 90 OBS 1O,SS7
y Totals. sS3, 339 1879
Or, in round figures, $4,000, to which
should be added q per cent for tare and
for freight to seaport. OF the above
weight two thirds, and of the price one
half, could be deducted, and obtained
manufactured in the home market, so
that for importation from Germany
there remains One-third of the above
total weight at price of half of the
above total, together with freight and
duty, in case such articles should be
held dutiable, though designed for the
starting OF new industry. Reduced to
single proportion, all circumstances
duly considered, the whole interior
working mechanism of such factory
would cost $4,000. Inasmuch as the
boiler room. the bone dust and chalk
house alone need be erected of fire.
proof materials, but the factory proper
of lumber or other cheap materials,
the total cost of structures would
not exceed $4,000. Allow for sundry
and accidental expenses 10 per cent,
and the total cost of beet sugar fac
tory. ready for operation, would require
a capital of $G6,000. Now. let us take a
working capital of $4,000, and 1t will
be seen that it requires 100000 if those
embarking in the new enterprise do not
want TO work with borrowed capital.
Per ton OF beetS the manufacturing
costs amount to from 50 to IS, and the
plice of beets is 81 per ton (Mr. Robert
son. in Chino, Cal, had net profit per
acre sugar beets of $6l.3l last year,.
The produce would be II per cent granu-
lated sugar Gin Grand Island, Neb., the
same was 1873 per cent?, per cent mo
laSses, % per cent feeding materials,
which as a rule the farmers obtain
gratutously, OF for very cheap price,
and ABOUT to per cent refuse extract
(preSschlamm), which is a very valu-
able manure. ALBERT MEYER,
Chemist and Sugar Expert.