The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-18
WILL AID CATTLEM EN-,
BEET SUGAR MANUFACTURERS UP
IN ARMS.

IN ARMS.
Claim That the Present Tarim Act
Gives Protection TO the Sugar
Trust But None to Them-Ssrent
Importance of the Industry and
Its Wonderful Growth
In their war on the Sugar trust the
cattlemen will have the hearty support
of the beet sugar manufacturers, who
are being hard pressed By the trust.
During the past four years the beet
sugar industry has REACHED nlangnifl-
cent proportions and its arm has be-
come strong. Utah is contributing her
share to its success. Some interesting
facts were given to a st. Louis Globe
Democrat reporter recently. by J. G..
Hamilton, secretary of the Norfolk
Beet Sugar company, of Nebraska.
1.-The people of this country don't
know what an immense Industry the.
manufacture of beet sugar has grown
to be- said Mr.. Hamilton at the South
ern yesterday. The output of the
beet sugar mills has increased from
100000 or 100000 pounds in 1890 to
100000 this year. The location of a
beet sugar factory should be where
there is plenty of water, good railroad
facilities and a good quality Of lime
stone and coal. Our company owns
three factories-one at Chino, CAL,
where 1000 tons of beets day are
made into sugar, and two in Nebraska.
The factory operating at $50 tons Of
beets per diem consumes four carloads
of coal, three cars of limestone and
half a carload of coke per day and
employs about 900 hands, half of whom
work at night and the other half in
daytime; the factory never stops from
the time 1t begins its campaign till
the last beet has been manufactured
into sugar
Thirty years ago this Industry was
started in California, but failed for
want of capital and a. lack of knowl-
edge. 1t was only recently that we
have been able to make sugar from
beets in the United States, although
the greater part of the sugar consumed
IN this country is manufactured from
beets in Germany and France, where
1t IS one of their most important indus
tries. In Austria, Holland and Bel
GUM the maximum has been reached
and land on which the Sugar beet is
grown is valued at $1,000 to $1,000 an
acre. And yet the land there is not as
good as some in our western country.
Napoleon found that sugar contained
In beets could be manufactured into a.
marketable product, but the beet only
contained or 6 per cent of saccharine
matter then, whereas, by carefully
breeding, it Is not uncommon now to
ind beets containing 20 per cent sac
charlne matter. But this percentage of
saccharine matter does not mean
sugar; it means simply sweet matter.
part of which is glucose and the rest
sucIose.
Under the Wilson tariff these fac
tories may have to shut down, as the
bill takes away the cent bounty and
substitutes an ad valorem duty. which
gives no protection when protection is
most needed and over-protects when 1t
is not needed. Besides, it opens the
gateway to fraud and is a Sugar trust
Dill Under the Mckinley bill the su-
gar from the Hawaiian islands comes
into this country under a reciprocity
agreement free, while the Wilson bill
allows this treaty to stand and repu-
dates, the obligations of the govern
ment to our own farmers and to those
who have trusted in the good faith of
Ihe pledge to the sugar manufacturers.
gar trust, through Claus SpreckeIs.
practically receives a bounty of Sc, 900 :
O0O a year from the product Of the
Hawaiian sugars. There is no reason
why we should produce all our own
sugar. 1t would take about a thousand
factories, costing 100000 each, the size
of the Norfolk factory, to make the
sugar our people consume. AS the
consumption doubles every twelve
years, it would be a long time before
the business would be overdone. Each
factory the size of the one at Nor
1olk gives, directly and Indirectly. sus-
tenance to about $500 souls. Land
around Norfolk has quadrupled during
tne last three years. AT Chino. Cal.
Where there were only two or three
houses in 1890, when the sugar factory
was erected, there are now over Ann
children going to the public school
and land which was practically nm,
saleable at $40 or SIS an acre. has re-
Gently sold at public auction at $40
ana $50 an acre. The fostering of this
industry would also be a good thing
Tor the people, as we will be able, af-
ter few years. experimenting. to
lilafu1acture sugar as low as cents
per pound"
~, In 1880 the duty on sugar was abost
3A cents a pound, commencing, AT a
sugar testing 20 per cent. and being in
creased gradually Until a. granuIated
sugar testing 1913 per cent. purity paid
d uuly or oA cents per pound This
DUTY was removed by the Mckinley act
and raw sugar admitted free. So as to
provide for the development of the
sugar industry in the United States. a,
bounty OF cents a pound was offered
10 Gqamufacturers of sugar testing
ABOVE 80 per cent. for a period of ff
teen years Under this inducement.
ana peheving that the government
would fulfill its pledge, several canftaI-
lists immediately began to build beet
sugar factories. Our company was the
pioneer in the work, and when the sue
cess OF the new enterprise became as
sured other companies followed. The
industry is especially adapted to the
west and southwest, as the sugar beet
requires "a dry cool fall 1t is practi-
cally hand-in-hand with irrigation.
The beet is able to withstand drouth
better than any other crop, as the lift
tie tap goes down ten or twelve feet to
secure moisture. 1t withstands frost
ana heaVy rains or hail better than
any crop produced and is less wearing
on the soil. 1t is crop unattended bv
speculation, and before the seed is
planted the farmer makes a. contract
with the factory. A farmer can sup
port his entire family on ten or twelve
acres of land, and even in this year of
drouth in Nebraska the yield was ff-
teen to twenty tons per acre. The
price paid is So a ton.
The process adopted is that of diff
fusion, or, in other words, soaking out
the sugar from the little octagon cells
IN the beet. The entire process of
taking the beet in at one end of the
factory and turning out the finest