The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-23
UTAH SUGAR.
SUCCESSFUL RUN or THE LEHl
BY january 10, When it VIII Close
Dewn, 1t VIII Have Produced
About Five Million Pounds Of
Sugar.

The Lehi sugar factory makes q
splendid record for the year now clos
ing.
Many of the difficulties encountered
in former years were avoided. owing to
experience gained. and everything is
new going like clockwork.
General Manager Cutler who was
in Salt Lake yesterday on one of his
periodical business strips, was seen by
la Herald reporter, and he expressed
ton.
a Long Run.
The run this year. said he, is the
longest the factory has ever made the
longest by fully fifteen days and this
has been due. of course, owing to the
fact that we have had a larger supply
of beets than usual; it means that the
farmers are taking a greater interest
in beet culture, and this fact gives en-
eouragemeut, of course, to the owners
of the company s stock.
Magnitude of the Enterprise.
But few people have an idea. of the
magnitude of the home industry at
Lehi. They find the sugar on their
breakfast table; they probably pass the
factory in their railway journeyings
several times a year; but it will be
news to thousands of The Herald s
readers when they are informed that
when the factory closes-about the 10th
of next month-it will have bought,
paid for and consumed $4,000 tons of
beets, and will have produced Ave mil
lion pounds (5,000,0o0) of fine sugar.
nearly all of which has or will be con-
stunned by the people of Utah.
while running" said Manager Cut
Ter, further, 1--WE employ 140 men. We
shall have consumed 5000 tons of coal.
1000 tons of lime rock, and 200 tons of
Cardiff tColo) coke, in addition to
numerous other supplies on a smaller
scale.
Advantages of Irrigation.
There is one fact that is very pleasing
to the Sugar company people, and that
is the success which has attended. the
culture CT beets in Utah. Unlike other
communities. where the growers are
compelled TO depend on rain to grow
their crops, there has not been the
slightest failure in any way.
''Out of six beet sugar factories in
the United States remarked Mr.. Cut
Ter, with apparent pride. ours is the
only one that has not suffered more or
less from drouth; and in this more than
anything else that l now recall is
shown the advantage of another Utah
system-that of irrigation
is a fact then, is it not, that the
only way of insuring a good harvest
Of 'beets is by irrigation?"
Yes, for this reason: By the irriga-
ton method the grower can always
regulate his supply of water; in a
YIy11a in hh dnd
upon there is always the danger of too
much or too little moisture-and one OF
these evils is as bad as the other-in
other words, too much water is as bad
as drouth, or vice versa. This being
the case, there is no reason why Utah
should not stand at the head. 1t has
been said by Professor Wiley, Of the
department Of agriculture al Washing
ton, that There is no crop within the
whole range Of agriculture more difficult
to produce than crop Of beets suitable
for the manufacture of sugar which
is doubtless true, but / maintain that
there is no crop that will produce the
same permanent results If raised by
patience, perseverance and a determine
ton to succeed. Irrigation is a great
help. and the Utah beet grower has just
that much advantage over the farmer
who lives in a community where irriga-
ton is impossible
Fhe officers.
The present officers of the company
are: President, Elias Morris; vice
president, George G. Cannon; secretary
and treasurer, Horace G. Whitney
general manager. Thomas R. Cutler
There are thirteen directors, the others
besides Messrs. Morris. Cannon and
Cutler being: Heber J. Grant, Moses
Thatcher, Francis Armstrong, L. G.
Hardy, W. B. Preston, George NJ. Can
non, John Beck, Spencer Clawson,
James Jack and w. H. Rowe.
The Salt Lake offices of the COM
pany are in the Home Fire Insurance
Lcompany's new building on Main street