The San Francisco call., 1897-08-08

com pletion. From foundation stone to
the top of the highest chimney none but
first class material has been used. The
expensive machinery in the several de-
partments, the heavy steel girders in its
m lightly frame, every atom of iron or wood
used in is construction, is OF UniIed States
m anufacture or productio
The Messrs. Clark were given outright a
bonus of 1000 acres of the choicest land on
the great Los Alamitos ranch as an in
ducement 10 locate the factory at its pres
ent site. The gift was made by the Bixby
Land Company. and the venture has al
ready borne good fruit. What one year
ago was a barren and tenantless waste is
now a well-populated and a thrifty coun-
tryside. The town of Los Alamitos counts
its people by hundreds and is the partial
cen er of supply for scores of weil-to-do
and prosperous families. The country is
filing up rapidly. All this as a direct re-
suit OF the installation of the sugar-making
plant
The Los Alamitos factory is located in
the northwestern end of Orange County,
not a stonethrow from the Los Angeles
County line. The main buildIngis q two
story and basement steel frame and brick
inclosed structure. Its greatest length Is
266 feet, width 66 feet. In this building is
placed most of The heavy machinery used
in the process. The limeklln and boiler
house annex Is the second largest in the
tie colony of brick buildings that COM
prise the factory. The annex IS 196x72
feet. The warehouse in which the re-
fire pro uct is stored is 1O0x50 feet.
The machine-shops are 50x25 feet, and
the business office, separate and hand
somely arranged room, is 26x24 feet.
There is also a frame seedhouse, 60x40
feet the receptacle for the seed used on
the II 900 acres tributary to the factory.
Two hundred carloads of gravel and 200
barrels of cement were used in the con-
struction OF The foundation. Seventy five
carloads of lum ber were nece sary to erect
the 700-foot silo and the mammoth beet
sheds. Three-quarters CT million brick
is another item in the construction ac-
count.
Los Alamitos is connected with the out
side world by telegraph, and is on a spur
OF the Southern Pacific Railroad, only nine
miles from Anaheim, the second city of
importance in Orange County. The town
and factory water supply is found in
artesian wells.
For the season OF 1897 the Clark factory
has a capacity of $50 tons of beets daily.
Under the terms OF a contract entered in 10
Dv the propr1etors and the Bixby Land
Company this capacity must be doubled
the coming year. This company is under
binding agreement to supply the factory
with the product of 1000 acres OF beets for
the ensuing four years.
The sugar tests alrt ally made this season
proclaim the land rich in saccharine.
giving elemt nts. This seasons crop will
be from 300O acres of beets, and a high
estimate places the average per acre at
eighteen tons. The basic price is So 25 per
ton of II per cent saccharine, with 25 cents
for each additional per cent above. A
fair yield in quality and quantity will
thus net the growers 81 per ton and about
$50 per acre. The expense OF prod uction
and of marketing is small. Many favor
able circumstance conspire TO make the
industry one of profit to the farmer and the
m. facturer. For these reasons is the
opening OF. the factory heralded with
great Joy by all classes in this locality
and a further increase is devoutly looked
for.