The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-03-05
BIG MONEY IN BEET SUGAR
WASHINGTON STATE MAY PAY
BOUNTY TO GROWERS.
Claim that the Industry Must Be Aid
ed for First Two Years-Committee
Report Favorably on Measure.


on agriculture today reporter fayorab-
ly on senate bill 90. This bill grants
bounty of 1 cent per pound on all
beet sugar produced in the state of
Washington for the next three years,
provided 81 and over is paid fo' the
beets from which it is manufactured.
1t provides that not more than $4,000
shall be paid as "a bounty in any one
year.
Frederic f. Elsendorf, secretary of
the Spokane board of immigration, has
appeared before the committee several
times in the interest of the bill. He
says that parties who are interested
in the manufacture of beet sugar have
promised to locate a factory in Wash
ington provided they could secure
bounty.
The committee had meeting last
night and L T. Benson, who is an ex-
pert on beet cugar, by reason of his
recent Investigations of the subject,
appeared before the committee at the
request of the members. Mr.. Benson
the beet sugar factories in Califrnia
and Utah, and gave the committee the
benefit of the facts he had gathered.
At Avondale, Alameda County, Cal,
the factory consumed $50 tons of beets
per day. At jacksonville, CAL, the fac
tory consumed 1000 tons per day. The
average price paid for beets at these
two factories was $4 per ton. At Chino,
which is fifty-siX miles from Los
Angeles, in Southern California, the
factory consumed 800 tons per day.
The average price paid for beets was
$3.7S per ton. The farmers there would
be delighted to get 81 per ton for their
beets.
AT the factory at Lehigh, Utah, $4.25
per ton has been paid for beets, but
in the future "a per ton will be paid.
At jacksonville $500 tons of beets
were used last year; at Alvarado, Cal,
$4,000 tons, and $4,000 tons at Chino.
From these factories the farmers re-
ceived over $1,OOO,OOO in cash. This
vast sum was received without the
payment by the farmer of either COM
mission or freight. 1t was practically
clear money for the farmers, as they
raised the beets and hauled them to
the mills themselves with their own
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AT the factory at Lehigh, Utah, DUR
ing the first year, 1891, they succeeded
in getting 10 pounds of refined sugar
from a ton of beets. The second year
| 135 pounds was obtained from the ton.
The third year 153 pounds was OBJ
tanned. The fourth year the output
was 167 pounds. The fifth year the
output was increased to 1913 pounds
per ton and the sixth year it rose to
200 pounds of sugar per ton. This was
due principally to the fact that the
farmers kept improving the quality of
the beets that they raised until now
they have raised them up to the max
imum standard.
The first two years that the Lehigh
factory was operated it received So
cents per pound for its output of
sugar. In addition to this it got .
cents per pound bounty under the pro,
visions of the Mckinley act and cent
per pound bounty from the state OF
Utah, and yet during those two years
the factory lost 100000. The present
price of sugar is AZ and cents pei
pound and the Lehigh factory receives
no bounty from the United States OF
the state of Utah, and yet it has beer
able to pay moderate dividend to the
stockholders during the past two
years.
Mr.. Benson contended that bounty
was necessary during the first two
years after the establishment of a fac
tory for the manufacture of beet
sugar
The average yield of sugar is 10 pei
cent, or 200 pounds to the ton of beets