The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-14

Chino, Cal, factory. There is nothing
else OF the town besides the sugar fac
tory Six years ago the Chino ranch
apparently was fit only for grazing
land There were only herders on the
ranch and a few houses in which they
lived The owner experimental with
sugar beets, proved that they could be
raised successfully, and a factory soon
vas built there Today there are about
5000 persons on the ranch 500 of whom
i've In the village of Chino Nearly
44UJsuJO is paid every year to the farm
efS Tor beets, nearly $50. 000 every
month during the working season for
Iapor, and as the factory uses the resi-
due of crude coal oil for fuel a large oil
refinery has been built on the ranch.
Whch manufactures gasoline, benzine
and kerosene
That shows the value of a sugar fac
tory to the Chino ranch, but ia addition
70 this must be considered the immense
amount OF manufactured goods con-
sumed by a sugar factory every year
me crop Of 1896 was very small one
at CHINO but it used up 10000 SUGAR
bags. 1000 sugar barrels 10000 wards
Of filter cloth, 5000 tons Of lime rock.
Ivy tons q bulk lime, 1000 tons OF
coke $4,000 barrels of petroleum. 10 600
pounds Of tallOW, $4,000 gallons of lu-
bricants, 1000 pounds of cup grease
and many smaller items. such as 500
hles, 1900 pounds of twine, SO dozen
SpOOlS Of thread, 1880 sHcing knives
1000 gallons of gasoline, etc. Nor is
the item of freight by any means a
small one in connection with a sugar
factory. The shipping in of supplies
and shipping out of sugar is an i'm
mense item of expense Jay Gould is
said once to have offered a sugar man
ufacturer $4,000 if he would build a
sugar factory at some point on the
Missouri Pacific railroad.
In addition to the factories already in
operation it would take about 500 the
size of the one at Chino to supply this
country with the sugar it consumes
The figures just given for Chino, null
tiplied by 500 would give the wealth to
be distributed every year by the build
ing of these factories. The factories
themselves would cost a million dollars
apiece. All the machinery necessary
for sugar manufacture can be made in
this country. so that not one cent of
the $500 ooO, 600 necessary to build the
factories would have to be sent abroad
There are several reasons why the
manufacture of sugar has not been de-
velOped in proportion with the resources
of the country. One reason is that
sugar cane is adapted to only a small
territory in the south, and as sorghum
cane proved a failure there was moth
ing suitable to all parts Of the country
until the sugar beet was introduced.
Mr. Henry IT. Cxnard spent three years
i'm Europe studying the growth Of beets
and their manufacture into sugar with
reference to the future of the industry
i'm the United States. Manufacturers
assert that congress has not properly
encouraged the sugar industry, and
that on that account capital has been
slow to invest However this may be,
the immense possibilities of beet sugar
to the farmer, laborer, mechanic and
capitalist cannot long be overlooked.
and if any governmental protection is
necessary for the building of factories
to supply the home consumption of
sugar it must sooner OF later be given.