The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-27
UTlAH sUGAR INpUslRY.
ELOQUENT Facts and Statistics Re
gardinG the Culture of Beets and
Output of the Product.


The Utah immigration company,
under management of Messrs. Brainard
& Ritter of this city, is doing good
work in bringing to the notice of east
ern people the natural resources land
opportunities for the establishment of
profitable industries in the new state.
Ihe following is the latest article being
sent out for publication:
SUGAR INDUSTRY IN UTAH.
AS field for beet sugar manufac-
turing, Utah cannot be excelled within
the boundaries of the United States.
Inc more sunshine the sweeter the
beet. Utah enjoys about 300 days of
sunshine every year, and this being one
OF the necessary qualifications for Gre
alng saccharine matter in the beets,
is Indispensable.
Utah soil, with irrigation, has been
proven to be well adapted to this in
dustry, producing a thrifty crop of
! beets, profitable to the grower, as well
as 10 the manufacturer of beet sugar.
When England blockaded France, and
thereby prevented sugar from being inn
ported into that country, the crafty and
lnfiexible Napoleon at once ordered his
subjects to raise sugar beets and make
their own sugar in order TO defeat the
plans OF the English army. His SUBJ
jects, bearing as much hatred toward
England DIS did their leader, readily fol-
lowed his advice and soon astonished
the world with the good results obtained
from their new enterprise, and il may
be justly said that Napoleon the First
gave TO the world a new idea and
prompted this beneficial industry
Germany was not slow to grasp this
{ o. 6ao q nd hoe
successful in producing a larger guam
| tity of sugar per ton from the sugar
beet than any other nation on the
globe, but now Utah leads the world
in this direction, producing under the
most favorable circumstances, with irri-
cation, as high as 20 per cent in sugar.
while the average for this years crop
| will run as high as 10 per cent, and is
! increasing with each years experience.
A company established d sugar fac
tory in Utah about three years ago
at Lehi, Utah county, and it has proved
a perfect success in every way, the
product being high-grade of granu-
lated sugar. equal to any found in the
market elsewhere.
The factory produced about 5.Oe0, 900
pounds of beet sugar in 1895, the whole
product being sold at a good profit as
soon as 1t was placed on the market
There are about 10000, 000,O 0o pounds
of sugar used per year in the whole
world; America uses about 30 per cent
of sugar imported into the United
States per annuH1- This is entirely
wrong fro ma commercial standpoint,
especially when there is so much idle
capital and so many men out of en-
ployment, and the output of 1000 fac
tories, of the size of the one az Lehi.
would only supply the demand in our
own country.
There is land enough in Utah suit
able for the culture of sugar beets
to supply at least ten manufactures
as large as the one at Lehi, which has
a capacity of 100000 pounds per day
when in full operation.
One of the finest tracts of land in the
state for this purpose is the lower vdl-
ley lands now being watered by the
Mt Nebo Land & Irrigation company.
ct the southeastern extremity of Utah
lake, on the Rio Grande Western rail-
way, a few miles south of Lehi, the
upper bench lands being planted TO
extensive orchards and where there
is ample water power from the canal
and an abundant supply Of limestone
in the foothills nearby, which is used
in large quantities in the chemical pro-
cess.
A sufficient quantity of beets could
be raised in this valley alone to supply
another factory as large as the one at
Lehi. Ten factories of this kind in
Utah would give employment to thou
sands of men in the factories and on
farms The capitalist would reap a
princely dividend and put millions of
dollars in circulation in our own coun-
try.