Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-10-18
AT UTAH'S GREAT FACTORY
Thirty Days Run Yield a Million any
Quarter Pounds Of Sugar.
winter and Better than the CsIifor
mia Froduct-A nays Kun OF
s1IOO Pounds.

ii. q. Whitney paid his nrst visit TO
the sugar works yesterday since he
was elected secretary and treasurer OF
lhe company. lilo brings back au
enthusiastic report VI operations ut tho
great factory.
"Whlio | was thore,o said Mr..
whitney to a NEWS representative to.
DAY, "the twelve thousandth sack wns
being numbered and put into a car
destined for Fred j. Kiesel & Co.,
Pocstelio, Idaho. This means one
million two hundred thousand pounds
Of sugar turned out Ia the
hTst four weeks this season, that peTio 1
having been reached yesterday. That,
| am Informed, IA ~ much Rs tho total
output OF the entire fret season. tn g
figure Will reach million ami n
quarter on tho thlrlleih day, tho nino.
tcenth OF the entire first season, which
Is exactly the estimate OF the msnagcr.
"Wiih Bishop Cutler, manager OF
the works, we paid n visit To tie fields
around Lohi, where big force Ia
working ten hours day digging the
beets. II was "a most interesting sight
10 see the men anu boys ut work, aud
IL all Impressed me AZ showing the
most careful and accurate System Of
management. plow pulled by three
h0fses, hrst loosens tho earth around
tue benh. Then troop OF boys follow
up ann pull The belle; another
llnn follows, cuts tho tops of with
sloAles aud maSeH pile OF tue beets.
Then the teams follow aud the bests
"A 20 NfEL rad a "a
tory, where they are put INTO the stor.
Ing shods, anu conveyed % the works
by means Of water ilume, which
transports them and washes them AT
the same time.
"Bert- from distance arrive mostly
by cars, both railroad. having switcas.
running 10 the worsa. Two solid
ttRin loads Of brels arrived while 1
was there, aud rs many M sevsnty.ilys
car loads have been received In a ain.
gle day. IL now looks az though
enough bosls would come In 20 Keen
the factory running through Deovm-
Der.
at ia impossible to gain an idna OF
how big thing the factory II, without
a personal Inspection. IL provides i'm.
mediate work Tor over 200 hands. be.
sides the money II scaiturs among the
faTmers, wnvtc hort crop yields them
very much more shan n they had
anwed their lands with grains. Ii taken
~ tons Of coal alone every day % firo
tho furnace, TO say nothing # the
coke used, The consumption OF beet.
one day recently reached 8l2 tons,
The output OF sugar averages from $50
10 $40 sacks, or 10000 % 80, 900 pound.
per day, but Tor tun twenty-hours emf.
Ing yesterday thuy had tufnsl out 78l
Hacks. Tue qu lily OF susLr IA
"a long way ahoad Of anything
from tho outslde, anl It presents
a specially hne appearance Contrasled
with tho California sugar, wnion In mo
where o. whi,o or Of 10 flne grain as
tho Utah"
Mr.. whitney states that the output Of
sugar Ia now Tor tho first time a littls
ahead Of the market, and IL Ia being
stored tor the present. The Utah pr6'
duct IL ugeI eXUlusively by such deal.
ors ~ u. G.. NJ. l., CLARK iildftdgo a
CO., CuuinglOn, johnson 4 o.. m,
SYmus Grocery Co., SAT- Lake; kiesel
q Co., Seouoroft ~ Soma, thS King
Mercantile Co., Osgen; Howe & Taft, |
Provo.