Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-08-17

First Manufactured In France Under III.
rection Of Napoleon.
Pending the result of the experiments
which are being made with sugar beets
this year in different parts Of Oregon and
Washington, IL IL interesting to find 90
complete and specific treatment OF the
beet sugar industry % is contained in the
speech OF Senator Mandereon, OF Ne
braska, on the tariff bill. This speech
10 now being sent out In the usual
congressional pamphlet form and
comprises In Its information al
most everything one would want to
know about the sugar beet industry.
historically, commercially, practically.
Leading up to Europe's present annual
output of 3,S4l 900 metric tons of beet
sugar, he traces the history of the in
dustry in France, where it was deter
minedly forced upon the people by the
great Napoleon, in the face OF ridicuIe
and abuse; in Germany, which follow
ing suit has passed not only France,
but every other nation in its output, and
Russia, Holland, Belgium and Sweden,
where bounties have successfully been
maintained. The story Of Napoleon's
efforts to establish the industry is very
interesting, so characteristic is it of the
man. Beginning with the celebrated
Berlin and Milan DEGREES, in which he for
babe the importation Of foreign sugar,
he built four imperial sngar-beet factories
out OF the public treasury and gave lib
eral bounties He offered 500 900 in one
bounty for the production of beets that
would carry ten per cent Of saccharine
1t ls said that France, in those dreadful
DAYS OF war and its attendant trouble
and expense, put 5000 900 900 into the
establishment and development Of beet
sugar factories.
j Senator Henderson follows out in de-
tail the processes OF growing, harvesting
and manufacturing. He shows US that
mechanical and chemical triumphs of the
industry are wonderful almost beyond
belief. The chemical disadvantages that
30 long bsfiied the world, unable to sepa-
rate the sugar from the salts, have been
overcome and the process perfected, 60
that the machine which takes the beet at
one end and in Is hours turns out pure
white sugar at the other, without the inter.
vention anywhere OF human hand, is
pronounced more marvellous contri-
vance ethan even the type setting ma
chimes that cast their own type, or the
looms, aye, even the jacquard looms
that weave those wonderful fabrics. .
And in America-in America alone, fol
elsewhere the product is laboriously
gathered by hand-there is machine
one drives through the field which takes
up the beet from the ground, cuts of thu
top and puts it into the box that travel'
1 by it.
OF course the requirements of sugal
beet factory are very great. 1t mus
have the product OF 5000 to 5000 acres o
land. There is no nse trying to manu-
facture sugar in a factory costing les
: than $500, 900. The growing and manu-
t featuring require exact knowledge ant
3 hard and faithful work. The beet is
peculiar crop, also 1t cannot be raise'
: in slo7enly fashion. but will come tt
+ nothing unless given painstaking, intelli
gent labor. With all these condition.
: realized, Senator Henderson goes on t
4 show that great industry can be buil
o up in this country if the government i
q disposed to lend helping hand.