The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-21
MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR
CLAIM THAT A NEW ERA HAS
BEEN INAUGURATED.
The Work of Extracting Raw Sugar
From the Beet Juice Accom-
pIished in Half an Hour.

Inc test Oh the new apparatus for the
abstraction of the raw sugar from the
beet juice made at Grand Island last
Friday was even more successful than
announced in this paper, says the
Omaha World Herald The clarified
beet juice as it entered the apparatus
had a density Of Sc briX, and in thirty
minutes was reduced to masse-cuite
having density Of 91.5 briX. The
density of the juice was little below
the average as used in the factory this
year, and the density of the product
was several points higher than is re-
quired for successful handling Under
the present system it would have taken
nearly ten hours to accomplish what
this new process accomplished in half
an hour. This statement will give the
reader some idea of the Importance of
the process.
In addition to this the test was made
under numerous adverse conditions.
The weather was damp, the machine
had been put up hastily, and the blow
ing apparatus had to be attached to
the evaporator at the wrong end owing
to the construction of the local ma
chinery.
H. H. Nicholson, chemist at the state
university, and e. A Claus, of the
sugar beet factory at Cheno, Cal, were
the referees, and in addition to these
gentlemen and Messrs. McDougal, SYM
ington and O'Neill, who went from this
city, the experiments were witnessed
by Clarence e. Leonard, of New York
City, secretary Of the Western Elevator
company, R. S. Bulda. chemist at the
Grand Island factory, and Henry S.
Ferar, manager of that factory, all Of
whom were surprised and pleased at
the demonstrations made
r. B. Schneider. of Fremont. who was
IN the city yesterday, says he has
known of the machine, but had not yet
learned of the result of the test. He
admitted that if the experiments were
as reported they were simply wonder
ful. and meant much to Nebraska The
result will be, he says, that there will
be masse-cuite factories in all the
larger communities in the state. Lo-
calities which could not think of put
ting In a factory costing from quar-
ter to half of a million dollars can
now build under this new process at a
vastly smaller cost. The farmers can
take stock in the new companies, and
not only receive a good market price
for their beets, but receive a share of
the profits Of the manufacturing bust
ness.
Again in the selling of their beets
they will be dealing with men they
know and in whom they have conf
dence, and when another year over
takes them like the past they will
be better enabled to understand the
condition than they are now when thew
must ship their product to another
point. The managers of the masse
quite factories will then make their
contracts with the central refineries.
and there will be more satisfaction and
harmony on all sides. In other words.
II the new process is proven to be prac-
teal. which now seems altogether pro-
bable, the beet sugar industry in Ne
braska will be just in it's infancy.
Another point of great advantage is
that the refneries necessary to care
FOR the raw product will be largely
built by outside capital, and will fur
nish another field for investment. This
masse-cuite can be stored with safety.
enabling refinery to run the wear
round If it has sufficient product, which |
cannot be done now, as the man11fac-
turing season is limited to about a, hun
dred days under the present plan. ow-
Ing to the perishable nature of the beet
crop.